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Author Avi, 1937-

Title Hard gold : the Colorado gold rush of 1859 : a tale of the Old West / Avi.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Hyperion Books for Children, [2008]
©2008
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1314002~S1
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Juvenile Fiction  J AVI    DUE 05-12-24
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Description 229 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Series An I witness novel
Avi, 1937- I witness novel.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-229).
Summary 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.
Audience 740L Lexile
Note 740L Lexile
Study Program Accelerated Reader MG 4.6 5 125659
Note Accelerated Reader MG 4.6 5 125659
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection
Subject Gold mines and mining -- Colorado -- Juvenile fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Colorado -- Juvenile fiction.
Colorado -- Gold discoveries -- Juvenile fiction.
ISBN 9781423105190
1423105192
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