Away to the Goldfields!

by Pat Derby and Jennifer Coburn

Some things are more precious than gold Stubborn, spirited Molly Malarky embarks on a life-altering adventure as she and her brother flee their miserable New Hampshire farm on the trail of their widower father, who abandoned them during the first months of the California gold rush. Traveling from Boston, to Panama, across the isthmus, and up the Pacific coast, they find that no part of the journey is easy. Cheats and scalawags abound, the distances...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374399611
• ISBN13: 9780374399610
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9