Summary: Newbery Award-winning author Susan Patron brings her talents to the beloved Dear America series in this exciting story of a girl growing up in the Wild West, in a California gold mining town. Growing up in the wild gold-mining town of Bodie, California, in the 1880s, Angeline Reddy has seen it all — saloons, brawls, and a whole lot of desperation. When her father, Bodie’s greatest lawyer, is declared murdered, Angie knows deep in her heart that he isn’t dead and decides it is up to her to solve the mystery of what happened to him. But when her mother takes ill and a mysterious ghost appears, putting together the puzzle pieces seems impossible. Not to mention, a gang of vigilantes, the 601, is raging out of control, running folks out of town, and nobody seems safe. Will Angie, with the help of her friends Ellie and Ling Loi, and the mysterious and tragically handsome Antoine, be able to uncover the secret of her father’s disappearance?Scholastic
Filed under: 2012-2013 Club, Not Mock Newbery Tagged: | 2012, diaries, frontier, lawyers, pioneer life
This book kept me reading , but it had some really predictable parts. I’ve read Dear America books before and this is probably one of the best I’ve ever read in this series.
I agree Mikala, that this book was well planned for a Dear America book. The characters was the only part of the book that stood out to me.