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1) White fang
Author
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
White Fang is part dog and part wolf. To survive in the wilderness he must learn to kill or be killed. He is captured and taken to the Alaska Yukon Territory during the gold rush where he is forced to pull heavy dogsleds and fight for money, until a man named Weedon Scott saves him from destruction and teaches him to love and trust a human master.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Victoria (Tory) Blaisdell longs to live a life as adventurous and independent as that of her heroine, Jane Eyre. When Tory's father loses his job and decides to seek a share of the newly discovered gold in California, Tory stows away on the westbound ship carrying her father and younger brother, Jacob. Though San Francisco is mud-caked, frenzied, and full of wild and dangerous men, Tory quickly finds friends and independence--until her father leaves...
Author
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captain Sean Mulkerin comes home from the sea to find his family's Malibu rance in jeopardy. The death of Sean's father has pushed his mother to the edge of financial ruin, and now it's up to Sean to find a way out. The rumor is that the elder Mulkerin found gold in the wild and haunted California hills, but the only clue to its whereabouts lies with an ancient, enigmatic Indian.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After her sister's marriage, Michelle Stiles is left hiding at Two Harts Ranch with the handsome but stubborn Zane Hart. She's managed to stay one step ahead of her stepfather and his devious plans, but if he finds her, she will no longer be safe. Zane has problems of his own. Having discovered a gold mine on his property, he must figure out how to harvest it without kicking off a gold rush. Michelle, educated and trained to run her father's business,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1851 twelve-year-old Sarah is a free Black, happy living with her parents, grandparents, and brother on their own farm in Iowa; but her father has been bitten by the gold bug and wants to take the trail west to California, and after some argument it is decided that the the grandparents will stay on the farm, but the rest of the family will go; the journey will be difficult and dangerous, but if they survive extreme weather, difficult terrain, illness,...
Author
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
One of Newbery Medalist Sid Fleischman's most beloved books, this rip-snortin' saga of a young man and his butler bound for California during the great Gold Rush was just made to be read by a full cast. Our collection of coots, codgers, geezers, and outlaws will have you laughing out loud-when you're not holding your breath in suspense!
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
495 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Boston rare-book dealer Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline Carrington, are headed to California, where their search for a lost journal takes them into the history of Gold Rush. The journal follows young James Spencer, of the Sagamore Mining Company, on a spectacular journey from staid Boston, up the Sacramento River to the Mother Lode. During his search for a "lost river of gold," Spencer confronts vengeance, greed, and racism in himself...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
182 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A diary account of fourteen-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes a historical note.
13) Pale rider
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An unknown stranger rides into a California Gold Rush town and gets caught in the middle of a feud between the mining syndicate and independent miners.
14) The California gold rush romance collection: 9 stories of finding treasures worth more than gold
Publisher
Barbour Books, am imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
444 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rush to California after the 1848 gold discovery alongside thousands of hopeful men and women. Meet news reporters, English gentry, miners, morticians, marriage brokers, bankers, fugitives, preachers, impostors, trail guides, mapmakers, cooks, missionaries, town builders, soiled doves, and more people who take advantage of the opportunities to make their fortunes in places where the population swelled overnight. But can faith and romance transform...
Author
Series
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
204 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
California gold is on Sofia Parker's mind. She has begun research on the tenth block in the heirloom quilt bequeathed to her by her grandmother along with an old family journal. Her inquiry takes her back to the gold rush of 1849 and a young woman, Adelia Long. Adelia is tracking a dangerous thief who is brazenly stealing the priceless nuggets and dust the forty-niners are scratching from the ground. Will she be able to smoke out the crook before...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The 1849 Gold Rush is no place for a refined young woman on her own, but Quinn MacCann plans to become a businesswoman, independent and capable of earning her own way. To escape her wealthy but abusive father with her inherited dowry intact, Quinn marries a stranger-a man so new to the area, her powerful father doesn't control him yet-but freedom and independence are more costly than she imagined. With her hopes and dreams buried deep by secrets,...
19) Newsgirl
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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.