Gold Nugget Trip

Ages 10 and up. The first in our Gentle Journeys series of historical fiction for middle-grade readers. Gold Nugget Trip is the story of Betsy Hale, a ten-year-old who desperately wants to reunite her parents. Her father, a miner in the California gold mines, lives so far away from Philadelphia where Betsy and her mother have returned after a family tragedy. Realistic historical information is woven into a heart-tugging story of life in the 1850s.