Newsgirl
By: Liza Ketchum
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780670011193
Subjects: Gold discoveries; Gangs; Juvenile fiction; Girls; Newspaper vendors; Fiction; Boys; Gold mines and mining; History; Gold rush
Description: In the spring of 1851 San Francisco is booming. 12-year-old Amelia Forrester has just arrived with her family and they are eager to make a new life in Phoenix City. But the mostly male town is not that hospitable to females and Amelia decides she will earn more money as a boy. Cutting her hair and donning a cap, she joins a gang of newsboys, selling Eastern newspapers for a fortune.
Notes: "Ages 10 and up" -- Jacket.