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Author
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, who is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack. Buck is a dog born to luxury, but his life changes dramatically when he is sold to be a sled dog in the Yukon Territory. He earns a reputation for his strength and courage, and is rescued from a series of bad owners by John Thornton, who teaches him to love. When John is...
2) 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.
3) Lando
Author
Series
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Orlando Sackett got to Texas with a damn good idea of the whereabouts of buried gold across the border in Mexico. In Mexico he had bad luck. His party had to run for it, and when Lando stood rear guard they pulled out and left him. Six years in a Mexican prison put muscles in his arms, fire in his heart and pure recklessness in his head. He survived by using his skills as a boxer and by making three vows. One was to find the men who betrayed him....
Author
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack. White Fang is the story of a wolf-dog who is befriended by a kind man who becomes his master.
Author
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Language
English
Description
Seeking to avenge the murder of her true love while on a dredge ship searching for gold, fifteen-year-old captain Poe Blythe becomes the architect of new defenses designed to destroy her enemies.
There is something Poe Blythe, the seventeen-year-old captain of the Outposts last mining ship, wants far more than the gold they tear from the Serpentine River. Revenge. Poe has vowed to annihilate the river raiders who robbed her of everything two years...
Author
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Mallie knows better than to dream. In Coal Top, you live the story you're given: boys toil in the mines and girls work as servants. Mallie can't bear the idea of that kind of life, but her family is counting on her wages to survive. It wasn't always this way. Before the Dust came, the people of Coal Top could weave starlight into cloth. They'd wear these dreaming clothes to sleep and wake up with the courage to seek adventure . . ....
Author
Series
Campground kids volume 3
Language
English
Description
So...Much...Gold... When Isaiah's dad is hired to print 3D dinosaur bones, his family is invited to join him. On this trip, the kids are glamping--enjoying the luxury of an RV instead of camping in tents. Attending a park-sponsored stargazing event, Isaiah, Sadie, and Ethan overhear a ranger tell his favorite legend of a gold mine hidden in Zion. While exploring the park, they venture off to investigate an intriguing narrow path. Unexpectedly, they...
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.
Author
Publisher
Lake 7 Creative
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
160 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Stolen from his life as a beloved pet, Buck must learn to adapt to abuse as a Klondike sled dog, to life with a loving master, John Thornton, and finally, when Thornton dies, to life in the wild as a leader of the wolf pack.
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphic Planet, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
GN 580L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rob and Lillian's families have vacationed together for years. This year they are on an ATV tour in the desert. When they find an abandoned mine they decide to ride in and explore. But then a cave in blocks the way out, leaving them trapped. Can they survive?
14) Gold rush!
Author
Series
Oregon Trail volume 7
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
171 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A pioneer heads west on the Oregon Trail in search of gold, in a book where the reader's choices determine the outcome of the expedition.
"You're in the middle of the Gold Rush, pioneerand you are headed West on the Oregon Trail with hopes to strike it rich in this choose-your-own-trail experience. Travel in your large wagon train and decide whether you'll stay the course to Oregon or take The California Trail towards Sacramento. Do your choices...
15) 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.
16) Medusa's Scream
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (137 pages).
Language
English
Description
Medusa's Scream is a thrill-ride that hurtles a train through an out-of-service gold mine in the Fraser Valley. Chase can't believe his luck when he lands a summer job in the food truck outside the ride's entrance. But then he notices strange things happening at the old mine. Chase starts to piece things together, and soon his life is threatened by a villain even scarier than the snake-headed Medusa of myth.
17) Jason's gold
Author
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
When news of the discovery of gold in Canada's Yukon Territory in 1897 reaches fifteen-year-old Jason, he embarks on a 10,000-mile journey to strike it rich.
Author
Series
Gold seer trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
436 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lee Westfall, a young woman with the magical ability to sense the presence of gold, must flee her home to avoid people who would abuse her powers, so when her best friend Jefferson heads out across Gold Rush-era America to stake his claim, she disguises herself as a boy and sets out on her own dangerous journey.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
148 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the early 1900s, after his family joins other Amish families on the Colorado frontier, young Joe, dreaming of an easier life, tries his hand at gold panning and learns some of life's truly golden lessons from an old prospector." --
20) Gold rush pups!
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
AD 690L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Chase, Rubble, and the rest of Nickelodeon's PAW patrol strike gold in Adventure Bay, will Mayor Humdinger and the mischievous kittens from Foggy Bottom let them keep it? Includes textured pages featuring sparkling glitter.