Cushman, Karen.

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


California--Gold discoveries--Fiction

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