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Avi, 1937-

Gold rush girl - First edition. - 306 pages : map ; 22 cm

Victoria (Tory) Blaisdell longs to live a life as adventurous and independent as that of her heroine, Jane Eyre. When Tory's father loses his job and decides to seek a share of the newly discovered gold in California, Tory stows away on the westbound ship carrying her father and younger brother, Jacob. Though San Francisco is mud-caked, frenzied, and full of wild and dangerous men, Tory quickly finds friends and independence - until her father leaves for the gold fields and the care of Jacob falls to her. Then Jacob vanishes, kidnapped, perhaps hidden among the hundreds of ships - called Rotten Row - that have been abandoned in the bay. If he is there, Tory must find him in a treacherous search. Tory comes close to losing everything in her quest for her own and her brother's freedom.

ISBN: 9781536206791 1536206792

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Frontier and pioneer life--California--Juvenile fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Juvenile fiction.
Kidnapping--Juvenile fiction.
Adventure stories.
Young women--Fiction.
Kidnapping--Fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Fiction

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
California--Gold discoveries--Juvenile fiction.
California--History--1846-1850--Juvenile fiction.
California--Gold discoveries--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction.
Action and adventure fiction

LC Class. No.: PZ

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]