Title: Newsgirl
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.
Subjects: Gold discoveries, Gangs, Juvenile fiction, Girls, Newspaper vendors, Fiction, Boys, Gold mines and mining, History, Gold rush, Boston Authors Club, Historical fiction, Children's fiction, United states, history, fiction
Places: California
Time periods: 19th century