Newsgirl
By Liza Ketchum
(Viking Juvenile, Hardcover, 9780670011193, 336pp.)
Publication Date: September 3, 2009
Categories: Girls & Women, Historical - United States - 19th Century
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It's the spring of 1851 and San Francisco is booming. Twelve-year-old Amelia Forrester has just arrived with her family and they are eager to make a new life in Phoenix City. But the mostly male town is not that hospitable to females and Amelia decides she'll earn more money as a boy. Cutting her hair and donning a cap, she joins a gang of newsboys, selling Eastern newspapers for a fortune. And that's just the beginning of her adventures. Participating in the biggest news stories of the day, Amelia is not a girl to let life pass her by--even and especially when it involves danger!
Liza Ketchum is the author of many award-winning historical novels. She lives near Boston, Massachusetts.
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