The ballad of Lucy Whipple
1st Harper Trophy ed.
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Word Count
54,500 words, Guess
Page Count
218 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveballadoflucywhip00cush
- Internet Archiveballadoflucywhip00cush_0
- ISBN-100064406849
- ISBN-139780064406840
- LibraryThing96098
and 5 more
- Library of Congress Control Number95045257
- Library of Congress Control Number98818713
- OCLC Control Number38927848
- Better World Books9780064406840
- Open LibraryOL20509431M
Classifications
- LCCCPB Box no. 1297 vol. 1
- DDC[Fic]
- LCCPZ7.C962 Bal 1996
Description
California doesn't suit Lucy Whipple -- not the name, not the place. But moving out West to Lucky Diggins, California, was her mama's dream-come-true. And now her brother, Butte, and sisters, Prairie and Sierra, seem to be Westerners at heart, too. For Lucy, Lucky Diggins is hardly a town at all -- just a bunch of ramshackle tents and tobacco-spitting miners. Even the gold her mama claimed was just lying around in the fields isn't panning out. Worst of all, there's no lending library! Dag diggety! So Lucy vows to be plain miserable until she can hightail it back East where she belongs. But Lucy California Morning Whipple may be in for a surprise -- because home is a lot closer than she thinks.
First Sentence
"Mama," I said, "that gold you claimed is lying in the fields around here must be hidden by all the lizards, dead leaves, and mule droppings, for I can't see a thing worth picking up and taking home."
Description
In 1849, a twelve-year-old girl who calls herself Lucy is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town, where Lucy helps run a rough boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way to get "home."
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