The ghosts of Luckless Gulch
By: Anne Isaacs ; illustrated by Dan Santat.
Contributors: Santat, Dan, ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers; Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781416902010
Subjects: Imaginary creatures -- Fiction; Ghosts -- Fiction; Gold mines and mining -- Fiction; Tall tales; California -- History -- 1846-1850 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: During the California Gold Rush of 1848, ten-year-old Estrella, who runs so fast she is called "la Estrella corriente," the running star, faces a group of greedy ghosts who have stolen her exotic pets to work in their gold mine.