The ballad of Lucy Whipple /
by Karen Cushman.
- New York : Clarion Books, c1996.
- 195 p. ; 24 cm.
In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a rough California mining town.
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Frontier and pioneer life--Fiction--California Family life--Fiction--California