Twelve-year-old Amelia Forrester arrives in San Francisco with her family in 1851 and dresses like a boy in the mostly-male town, cutting her hair and wearing a cap to work as a newsboy in order to sell Eastern newspapers and participate in the biggest stories of the day.
year: 2009
call number/section: 1000
subjects: girls, boys, gangs, gold mines and mining, california, history, 19th century, fiction, california, gold discoveries