TY - BOOK AU - Cushman,Karen TI - The ballad of Lucy Whipple SN - 9780547722153 PY - 1998///, ©1996 CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Families KW - California KW - Gold mines and mining KW - Gold discoveries KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft N1 - "Sandpiper."; Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-195) N2 - In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a rough California mining town ER -