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    <title>ballad of Lucy Whipple</title>
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    <namePart>Cushman, Karen.</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Harper Trophy</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1998, c1996</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1998</dateIssued>
    <edition>1st Harper Trophy ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>218 p. 20 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>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."</abstract>
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  <targetAudience>1030 Lexile.</targetAudience>
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">by Karen Cushman.</note>
  <note>Originally published: New York : Clarion Books, 1996.</note>
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    <topic>Frontier and pioneer life</topic>
    <geographic>California</geographic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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    <topic>Family life</topic>
    <geographic>California</geographic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcshac">
    <geographic>California</geographic>
    <topic>Gold discoveries</topic>
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