YA - Young Adult
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Title:
A trail of broken dreams : the gold rush diary of Harriet Palmer : Overland to the Cariboo, 1862
Personal Author EPSB:
Barbara. Haworth-Attard
Summary:
Presents the fictional diary of Harriet Palmer, a twelve-year-old girl who decides, in the wake of her mother's death, to disguise herself as a boy in 1862 and travel to the gold fields of Canada to bring her father home.
Year Published:
2004
Series:
Dear Canada
Physical Description:
168 pages : illustrations, maps, ports. ; 20 cm.
Subject:
Determination (Personality trait) -- Fiction.

Diaries -- Fiction.

Family life -- Fiction.
Geographic Term:
Cariboo (B.C. : Regional district) -- Gold discoveries -- Fiction.

Canada -- History -- 1841-1867 -- Fiction.
Genre:
Canadian fiction.

Historical fiction.
ISBN:
9780439974059
Publisher:
Markham, ON : Scholastic Canada, 2004.

Toronto, ON : Scholastic, 2005.

©2004
Edmonton Public Schools