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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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 Terrority. 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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 24
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Un retrato palpitante de una época marcada por la violencia y la codicia, con entrañables personajes.
Eliza Sommers es una joven chilena que vive en Valparaíso en 1849, el año en que se descubre oro en California. Su amante, Joaquín Andieta, parte hacia el norte decidido a encontrar fortuna, y ella decide seguirlo. El viaje infernal, escondida en la cala de un velero, y la búsqueda de su amante en una tierra de hombres solos y prostitutas atraídos...
4) Jason's gold
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of the Klondike gold rush of the late 1890s, describing the men responsible for the initial discovery, the trail to the Klondike gold fields, and the explosive growth and rapid demise of the gold rush town of Dawson
11) The Californios
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Captain Sean Mulkerin comes home from the sea to find his family's Malibu ranch in jeopardy. The death of Sean's father has pushed his mother to the edge of financial ruin, and now it's up to Sean to find a way out. The rumor is that the elder Mulkerin found gold in the wild and haunted California hills, but the only clue to its whereabouts lies with an ancient, enigmatic Indian. When Sean and his brother set forth to retrace their father's footsteps,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A diary account of fourteen-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes a historical note
Author
Series
Lumber Baron's Daughters volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"After her sister's marriage, Michelle Stiles is left hiding at Two Harts Ranch with the handsome but stubborn Zane Hart. She's managed to stay one step ahead of her stepfather and his devious plans, but if he finds her, she will no longer be safe. Zane has problems of his own. Having discovered a gold mine on his property, he must figure out how to harvest it without kicking off a gold rush. Michelle, educated and trained to run her father's business,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
One hundred years after her family was transformed by greed during the Klondike Gold Rush, Anna Bush grapples with moral conflict and questions of justice as she travels to the Klondike to bequeath her would-be inheritance to the First Nations peoples who paid the price for its creation.
Author
Language
English
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Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende, comes a passionate tale of one young woman's quest to save her lover set against the chaos of the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just
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Series
California Gold Rush novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The story of a young boy who lives with his proper Bostonian aunts and their very correct butler. When their money runs perilously low, the boy and the butler stow away on a ship bound for the gold fields of California and many adventures follow.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1851 twelve-year-old Sarah is a free Black, happy living with her parents, grandparents, and brother on their own farm in Iowa; but her father has been bitten by the gold bug and wants to take the trail west to California, and after some argument it is decided that the grandparents will stay on the farm, but the rest of the family will go; the journey will be difficult and dangerous, but if they survive extreme weather, difficult terrain, illness,...
Author
Series
Gold seer trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Lee Westfall has a strong, loving family. She has a home she loves and a loyal steed. She has a best friend -- who might want to be something more. She also has a secret. Lee can sense gold in the world around her. Veins deep in the earth. Small nuggets in a stream. Even gold dust caught underneath a fingernail. She has kept her family safe and able to buy provisions, even through the harshest winters. But what would someone do to control a girl with...
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