Posted by: John on: October 25, 2009
Ketchum, Liza. Newsgirl. 2009. 327 p. Viking. $17.99 (978-0-670-01119-3). Gr. 5-8. 1851. California. Twelve-year-old Amelia, her mother, and her mother’s friend Estelle have journeyed to San Francisco in search of fortune and a place where women can be independent, own property, and fashion a new life together. For Amelia, however, it is the disheartening discovery […]