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Author
Series
Macgregor Family adventure volume 6
Publisher
Pelican Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Scuba diving in Papua New Guinea, the MacGregors and Natalie Crosswhite find a concealed safe, and later discover a dangerous link between a toxic underwater leak and an illegal gold-mining operation.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
293 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Angeline Reddy turns to friends for help when her father, the best lawyer in their California gold mining town, disappears, but her efforts are complicated by her mother's sudden illness, her uncle's arrest for the murder of her father, the appearance of a mysterious ghost, and a dangerous gang of vigilantes.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
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
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
310 p. : ill. ; 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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Early Whitcomb's family needs a miracle. Their Iowa farm has been in the family for generations, but a long drought has withered their savings and left them in debt. Meanwhile, the great Chicago and Northwestern Railroad wants their land, and if the Whitcombs can't pay their loans, the local banker, Judge Fuslin, will foreclose and sell the farm as his own. Early's uncle (though he's more like a brother), Jesse, thinks he has the solution—to
...Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
47 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
The fictional Thomas Hartley gives readers a historical portrait of life in the California gold fields, offering a unique and witty snapshot of a key period in the economic development of the United States.
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