Cushman, Karen. <br/><br/>
The ballad of Lucy Whipple 
by Karen Cushman. 
 - 1st Harper Trophy ed. 
 - New York :  Harper Trophy,  1998, c1996. 
 - 218 p.  20 cm. 
<br/><br/> Originally published: New York : Clarion Books, 1996. 
<br/><br/> In 1849, a twelve-year-old girl who calls herself Lucy is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town, where Lucy helps run a rough boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way to get "home." 
<br/><br/> 008-012.  1030  Lexile. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0064406849  4.95 9780064406840 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>95045257 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Frontier and pioneer life--California--Fiction.<br/>Family life--California--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>California--Gold discoveries--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PZ7.C962  / Bal 1998 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>808.068