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Gold Rush Reading for Kids
Fascinating, fun and (don't let on) educational books for kids.
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Fiction- Anisett Lundberg : California, 1851 by Kathleen Duey
- Boom Town by Sonia Levitin, 1998. (picture book)
- Chang's Paper Pony by Eleanor Coerr
- Gift of Gold by Beverly Butler
- Gold Fever by Verla Kay,1999. (picture book)
- Gold Rush Days by Ellen Weiss, 2001.
- Hitty's Travels #2 Gold Rush Days by Ellen Weiss
The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung: a Chinese Miner by Laurence Yep, 2000.
- The Legend of Freedom Hill by Linda Jacobs Altman
- Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild by Kristina Gregory, 2001.
- Treasure in the Stream: the Story of a Gold Rush Girl by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler and Carey-Greenberg Associates, 1991.
Non-Fiction- California by P.M. Boekhoff
- California Gold Rush by Peter and Connie Roop, 2002.
- California Gold Rush, American Heritage
- California Gold Rush by Gordon Axon
- California Gold Rush by R. Conrad Stein
- California Gold Rush by Jean F. Blashfield
- California Gold Rush by May McNeer
- California Gold Rush by Judy Monroe
- California Gold Rush by Julie Ferris
- The California Gold Rush : West with the Forty-Niners by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk
- California Gold Rush Activities and Projects by Linda Lyngheim
- California Gold Rush Cooking by Lisa Golden Schroeder, 2001.
- California Gold Rush Projects and Activities by Linda Lyngheim, 1998.
- The California Trail to Gold in American History by Carl R. Green, 2000.
- Dame Shirley and the Gold Rush by
Jim Rawls
- Gold Dust or Bust: a Musical Play for Kids about the California Gold Rush: Script, Teacher's Guide, and Cassette with Songs and Instrumental Accompaniment by Ron Fink and John Heath, 1998. (book with audio cassette)
- Gold Fever! by Catherine McMorrow
- Gold Fever!: Tales from the California Gold Rush by Rosalyn Schanzer, 1999.
- Gold in California by Paul Iselin Wellman
- Gold Miners of the Wild West by Jeff Savage
- Gold Rush!: The Young Prospector’s Guide to Striking it Rich by James Klein, 1998.
- Gold Rush Adventure by Linda Lyngheim, 1997.
- Hurry Freedom: African Americans in Gold Rush California by Jerry Stanley, 2000.
- Life During the Gold Rush by Victoria Sherrow, 1998.
- Lola Montez in Grass Valley by Marion Tinling
- Pathways of America: the California Gold Rush Trail by Lynda Hatch, 1994.
- Sylvia Stark, a Pioneer: A Biography by Victoria Scott and Ernest Jones, 1992.
- They Came Singing: Songs from California’s History by Karen W. Arlen, Margaret Batt, Nancie Kester, and Mary Ann Benson, 1995. (with compact disc)
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