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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
Series
Gold seer trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a dangerous billionaire intends to use Lee, her fiancée Jefferson, and their magical friends for his own nefarious ends, they decide to fight back before the landscape of California can be altered forever.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
293 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the "wild west" of an 1880s California gold-mining town, Angeline investigates the supposed murder of her father, a famous criminal lawyer, who she and her mother are certain is still alive. Includes historical notes and instructions for making a mask from muslin.
5) Penny
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 16
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
142 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Penny is a blue-eyed palomino paint mare with a taste for adventure! She and a boy named Jesse search for gold in Northern California. After striking it rich and then losing everything, Jesse and Penny join the Pony Express. The job is a tough one, but Penny loves a challenge! Here is Penny's story...in her own words.
7) 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.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
1000L
Physical Desc
310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A series of letters and newspaper articles reveals life in California in the 1850s, especially for thirteen-year-old Eldora, who was raised in Massachusetts as an orphan only to meet her influential mother in San Francisco, and Luke, who hopes to find a fortune in gold.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (5 hr., 49 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Life in the Wild West is never dull, especially not after Angeline Reddy's father, the town of Bodie's greatest criminal lawyer, is declared murdered. Angie, who knows deep in her heart that he isn't dead, decides it is up to her to solve the mystery of what happened to him. But when her mother takes ill and a mysterious ghost appears, putting together the puzzle pieces seems impossible. Not to mention, a gang of vigilantes, the 601, is raging out...