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Newsgirl (2009)

by Liza Ketchum(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0670011193 (ISBN13: 9780670011193)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Viking Juvenile

review 1: After arriving in San Francisco, Amelia Forrester quickly realizes that in order to survive and help her mother & family friend, Estelle, she must dress & act like a boy. Amelia's love of the written word and newspapers serves her well in this endeavor. She soon realizes after landing that she will be able to put coins in her pocket by selling the newspapers they packed with - people in California are "starving" for news from the East Coast - even if it is several months old. Amelia soon joins a gang of boys selling newspapers on the streets of San Francisco. With her sense of adventure she ends of flying away in a hot air balloon and barely surviving, almost being shanghaied on a ship to another country and surviving a San Francisco fire. An enjoyable Historical Fict... moreion which takes place during the California Gold Rush.
review 2: This book caught my eye and the cover suggested it had tons of potential...a girl arriving in California during the gold rush time gets in with the newsboys to make money for her mother and the her female friend. It had lots of potential for a very thrilling story and with lots of historical backing which is a huge draw for me (you could tell the author had done her research too). Unfortunately, the story was simply too much, too many back to back adventures that made the story rather unbelieveable. I also found the authors underlying agenda's frustrating and distracting to what I hoped to be a very good historical fiction read. less

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