Title: Tucker and the horse thief
First published: 1979
Description: A 12-year-old girl, posing as a boy and abused and neglected by a father who has brought her to California to help him get rich in the aftermath of the gold rush, finds both warmth and uneasiness in a friendship with a Jewish boy who does not suspect she is a girl.
Subjects: Friendship, Fiction
Places: California
LC classification: PZ7.T276 Tu