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Gold Rush Girl

Avi

Ages: 9+

Published: 2020

Publisher: Candlewick Press

ISBN: 978-1-5362-0679-1

Keywords: California, (19th century) Gold Rush, Siblings, Kidnapping, Racial Discrimination, Gender Discrimination, Free Blacks

In 1848, Tory stows away to San Francisco and, with the help of two boys, one white, one Black, eventually finds her kidnapped brother.