By the great horn spoon! by Fleischman, Sid 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2007)

BTSB #: P00078 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-11   


Genres: Adventure Fiction Historical Fiction

Subjects: California - Gold discoveries - Fiction

Summary: Gold! That's the lure that drew men by the thousands in 1849 to make the dangerous trip to California. It's what young Jack Flagg of Boston and his unflappable butler Praisworthy are after as well. But can two such unlikely greenhorns really survive a harrowing sea voyage, bandits, and crazed miners -- not to mention a showdown with the dreaded Mountain Ox? It seems impossible, but in Gold Rush California the impossible was happening everyday.

Sarah journeys west : an Oregon Trail survival story [Girls Survive]by Smith, Nikki Shannon 

Paperback(Stone Arch, 2020)

BTSB #: 827206 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 3.9 MG Lexile: 610 F&P: S

Genres: Historical Fiction Adventure Fiction

Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Overland journeys to the Pacific - Fiction Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.) - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Family life - West (U.S.) - Fiction Oregon National Historic Trail - Fiction California - Gold discoveries - Fiction West (U.S.) - History|y1848-1860 - Fiction

Summary: In 1851 twelve-year-old Sarah is a free Black, happy living with her parents, grandparents, and brother on their own farm in Iowa; but her father has been bitten by the gold bug and wants to take the trail west to California, and after some argument it is decided that the the grandparents will stay on the farm, but the rest of the family will go; the journey will be difficult and dangerous, but if they survive extreme weather, difficult terrain, illness, and the racism of others in the group there may be a better life waiting for them at the end of the trail.

Walk on Earth a stranger by Carson, Rae 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2015)

BTSB #: P02903 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres: Fantasy Fiction Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Overland journeys to the Pacific - Fiction Gold - Fiction Magic - Fiction Gold mines and mining - Fiction Disguise - Fiction California - Gold discoveries - Fiction

Summary: Lee Westfall, a young woman with the magical ability to sense the presence of gold, must flee her home to avoid people who would abuse her powers, so when her best friend Jefferson heads out across Gold Rush-era America to stake his claim, she disguises herself as a boy and sets out on her own dangerous journey.