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103 pp.
| Greenwillow |
April, 2001 |
TradeISBN 0-06-029397-7$$14.95
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LibraryISBN 0-06-029398-5$$14.89
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4-6
A lost gold mine is the pivotal element in this rapidly paced Western adventure, but the real treasure is Fleischman's ability to spin a yarn. Newly orphaned, twelve-year-old Bo Gamage travels from San Francisco to the Mojave Desert to join his estranged relations who hate him on sight because of a long-standing family feud--the resolution of which is the happy conclusion to this light-as-cotton-candy concoction, set in contemporary times.
Reviewer: Mary M. Burns
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
May, 2001