Title: Gold in the Hills
Description: When they are left with relatives while their father goes prospecting for gold in the Colorado mountains, ten-year-old Hattie and her older brother depend on their friendship with a recluse who lives nearby to make their lives bearable.
Subjects: Children: Grades 3-4, Juvenile fiction, Colorado, Brothers and sisters, Frontier and pioneer life, Gold mines and mining, Stuttering, Children's fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction