The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
- ISBN-10
- 1413143229
- ISBN-13
- 9781413143225
- Series
- The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
- Category
- California
- Pages
- 218
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Author
- Karen Cushman
Description
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, where Lucy helps run a rough boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way to get "home."
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