TY - BOOK AU - Cushman,Karen TI - The ballad of Lucy Whipple SN - 0064406849 AV - PZ7.C962 Bal 1998 U1 - 808.068 PY - 1998///, c1996 CY - New York PB - Harper Trophy KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - California KW - Fiction KW - Family life KW - Gold discoveries N1 - Originally published: New York : Clarion Books, 1996; 008-012; 1030; Lexile N2 - 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." ER -