Men I have never spoken to this whole year come up to me, hat in hand, and say, 'Excuse me entirely little sister, but I hear you might have books for borrying."
"All of a sudden I am grown mighty popular and it is all due to the box of books from Miss Homer. I am sick to death of Ivanhoe and Mr Scatter's Bible, and there is not another book in these mountains." "If you see my former teacher, Miss Charlotte Homer of Reedsville, kindly inquire if she might send me a book. I am bodaciously sorrow-burdened and wretched!" I was wishing Pa was here, but he's not and I am. "I am a stranger in a land where they even speak a different language full of derns and dings and have you a pick-axe about your clothes?.
I'm sick of them all - dirty boots and dirty sheets, loud voices and big appetites." some miners are thieves and drunkards, men of bad habits and worse disposition others can be counted as the finest folk on God's green earth. "There is no school and no lending library, no bank, no church, no meeting house, no newspaper, no shopping or parties of picnics, no eggs, no milk and worst of all no Gram and Grampop. Here are a few text quotes from the letters Lucy writes to Gram and Grampop in Massachusetts: The strength of this book comes from the honesty of Lucy herself and the vivid sense of place created by Karen Cushman. It was a name that caused people to notice me, talk to me, remember and expect things. I never paid much attention to my name back home.
No one in any book I ever read was called California.
It would surely be odd to have the name California in California. When they arrive the first thing her oldest daughter insists on is changing her name to Lucy. Ma, Arvella Whipple, takes her family across America from Massachusetts to California in search of a new life and the fortunes promised by gold. "Mama and Pa had long dreamed of going west, even to naming their family for western places: me, the first California Morning Whipple then Butte, Prairie, Sierra, Golden Promise, the lost baby Ocean and Rocky Flat the dog." Before they set off Pa and Golden have died of pneumonia.
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