Title: The bite of the gold bug
First published: 1992
Description: It's 1898, and 12-year-old Bucky, his father, and Uncle Tanner are off to Alaska to prospect for gold. The journey is hard, and they face deadly storms, numbing cold, and a grueling six-hour nonstop trudge up a mountainside with heavy backpacks. Will the journey be worth it in the end?
Subjects: Juvenile Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Gold mines and mining, Children's fiction, Gold mines and mining, fiction, Alaska, fiction
Places: Alaska
LC classification: PZ7.D3584 Bi 1992