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Newsgirl / Liza Ketchum.

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780670011193
  • ISBN: 0670011193
  • Physical Description: 327 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Viking, 2009.

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
640L Lexile
Lexile: 640.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.3 10 132650.
Subject:
Gold mines and mining > California > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Girls > Fiction.
Boys > Fiction.
Gangs > Fiction.
Gold mines and mining > Fiction.
Newspaper vendors > Fiction.
Historical fiction > Fiction.
Historical fiction > Juvenile literature.
Girls.
Boys.
California > Gold discoveries > Fiction.
Genre:
Young adult fiction.

Available copies

  • 3 of 3 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Jacksonville Main Library YA FIC KETCHUM (Text) 36015000111902 Young Adult Fiction Available -

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