The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
by Karen Cushman
208 pages· 1996· ISBN 9780547532882
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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. There Lucy helps run a boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way to return "home."
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