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| Genre/Form: | Juvenile fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Elementary and junior high school, Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Avi |
| ISBN: | 9781423105190 : 1423105192 |
| OCLC Number: | 246689546 |
| Awards: | A Junior Library Guild selection |
| Target Audience: | Ages 8-12. |
| Description: | 229 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | How it began -- My brothers -- Bad news and good -- Hard times, strange times -- A whole lot of time -- I find a way -- I leave home -- Lizzy -- Westward, ho! -- We head west -- Mr. Mawr -- News about Jesse -- Farewell to Iowa -- Into Nebraska -- Stampede! -- Going on -- The long trail -- Cherry Creek! -- Denver House -- Going after Jesse -- Into the mountains -- Gold Hill -- Jesse -- Escape! -- The rest of my life -- Glossary -- Author's note -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Illustration credits. |
| Responsibility: | Avi. |
Abstract:
Determined to find his nineteen-year-old uncle and best friend, Jesse, who left for Colorado to find enough gold to pay the mortgage and save the family's Iowa farm, twelve-year-old Early Whittcomb joins up with a barber, his wife, and his daughter on a wagon train heading for the gold fields near Pike's Peak in 1858.
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by LoriStone updated 2010-03-19
