The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

Industrial Age
Ballad of Lucy Whipple Author: Cushman, Karen Buy at Amazon | BookShop.org Time Period: Industrial Age Time Frame: 1849 Geographic Area: North America Country: United States Topics: Westward Expansion, California Gold Rush Genre: Fiction Reading Age: Upper Middle Grade, Young Adult Format: Chapter Book Published: 1996

American History > Industrial Age > Westward Expansion

In 1849 a twelve-year-old girl who calls herself Lucy is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town. There Lucy helps run a boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way to return "home."

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