Away to the goldfields!
By: Pat Derby.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Voyages and travels -- Fiction.; Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.; California -- Gold discoveries -- Fiction.; California -- History -- 1846-1850 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Yearning for adventure and tired of farm life in New Hampshire, sixteen-year-old Mary Margaret Malarkey journeys to California in 1848 to find her father who arrived earlier to make his fortune in the goldfields.