A trail of broken dreams : the gold rush diary of Harriet Palmer : Overland to the Cariboo, 1862

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.

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.

ISBN
9780439974059

Publisher
Markham, ON : Scholastic Canada, 2004.
 
Toronto, ON : Scholastic, 2005.
 
©2004


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
StratfordF HAWBook30577000013376Fiction