An epistolary novel set in the 1850s, in which thirteen-year-old Eldora, who was raised in Massachusetts as an orphan, moves with her guardians to San Francisco, where she begins teaching two "Mexicano" children English, befriends a boy searching for gold, and finds herself face-to-face with her influential mother.
year: 2007, 2009
call number/section: 1000, 920
subjects: frontier and pioneer life, california, juvenile fiction, mothers and daughters, gold mines and mining, mexican americans, fiction, california, history, 1850-1950, juvenile fiction, fiction, mother-daughter relationship
Editions
Blos, Joan W
Atheneum Books for Young Readers (2007)
An epistolary novel set in the 1850s, in which thirteen-year-old Eldora, who was raised in Massachusetts as an orphan, moves with her guardians to San Francisco, where she begins teaching two "Mexicano" children English, befriends a boy searching for gold, and finds herself face-to-face with her influential mother.
Schools: 5
Blos, Joan W
Aladdin Paperbacks (2009)
An epistolary novel set in the 1850s, in which thirteen-year-old Eldora, who was raised in Massachusetts as an orphan, moves with her guardians to San Francisco, where she begins teaching two "Mexicano" children English, befriends a boy searching for gold, and finds herself face-to-face with her influential mother.
Schools: 2