Title: Walking up a rainbow
Description: In 1852, a fourteen-year-old orphan and her elderly guardian, accompanied by a tough drover and his crew, take several thousand sheep from Iowa to California, returning by ship through the Panama Canal, to raise money to save the girl's home from a villainous debt collector.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Voyages and travels, Orphans, Overland journeys to the Pacific, American Authors, Fiction, Children's fiction, Girls, fiction
Places: United States, North Carolina
Time periods: 1783-1865