Newsgirl

  • Type: Books
  • By: Liza Ketchum
  • Age Category: Children
  • Genre: Historical Fiction
  • Recommended by: Tom S.
  • ISBN/UPC: 9780670011193
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A fresh perspective on the California Gold Rush

12-year-old Amelia is determined to help her family after they move from the familiar comforts of rural New England to the roaring boomtown that is 1851 San Francisco.  But how?  Even though Amelia is an aspiring journalist with writing skills, no newspaper is willing to hire a girl.  Furthermore, the house that will shelter her small family - which includes Amelia, her mother, and her mother’s friend and business partner Estelle – is late in arriving from the East.  So Amelia, as plucky and resourceful as they come, disguises herself as a boy and plunges into the rough-and-tumble world of frontier journalism.
  
This would be a good match for such girl-power pioneer stories as The Ballad of Lucy WhippleOur Only May Amelia, One Came Home, and Hattie Big Sky.