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Summary: Seeds Of Hope
Review: At the first part of her journey she lost her mother in a terrible accident. Also her father lost their whole life savings. Then her father heard that in California they found GOLD. Her father thought since they were stoping in California and that they needed the money he was going to become a miner at Miner's Creek. Susanna and her sister Clara did not want to go to California. They wanted to continue on to Oregon city to their family and friends. Then they decided that they did not want to break up their family. So they went with their father. They made a home in Miner's Creek. They made new friends, encountered many dangerous things such as a murderer, bears, mountain lions, theif, etc. Susanna also finds someone she really likes.The setting is in Miner's Creek in California (1849). The author is Kristiana Gregory.
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Summary: A Golden Book About Gold
Review: Hello everyone! I am giveing this book 5 stars because I thought it was a good book, duh!=S Sorry, I wasn't thinking. Anyways, I like the plot and I don't have anything bad to say about it but I did not like it that her BF had long hair. BUT other then that its a good book and I think anyone and everyone would like it!=)
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Summary: A young girl's diary of the California Gold Rush.
Review: It is January, 1849. Fourteen-year-old Susanna Fairchild, her father, and her sixteen-year-old sister Clara are on board a ship, almost to the end of their long sea voyage from New York to Oregon, when they hear news of a gold strike in California. Susanna's desperate father, grieving after the death of his wife and nearly penniless after losing all his money, abandons his plan of establishing a medical practice in Oregon and decides to mine for gold in the hope of gaining back the money he lost. Writing in the diary left behind by her mother, Susanna describes life in a rough-and-tumble mining camp and the dangers she and Clara face when they are left alone for weeks at a time. But in spite of the many hardships they face, the two sisters grow closer and experience the joys of finding new friends and their first loves. I highly reccomend this book to all fans of the Dear America series. Kristiana Gregory has written a beautiful story about a family that faces many losses but manages to grow stronger, not from the riches that they struggle to find, but through the love they share. This has quickly become my favorite book in the Dear America series.
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Summary: 21 Days Later...
Review: It was still making me think. This book is as close to a real portrayal of the gold rush as I have ever seen. It is an amazing book. It is a historical fiction and it is about a girl that is fourteen (hey I'm 14, too!) and she has already experienced the greatest loss that I girl can face. She has lost her mother. And in the most horrid way as well! This girl, Susana Fairchild, has suffered through things at 14 that most of the world now suffers at 40 and other things that most people never suffer. The setting of this story is 1840's California. I liked this book for many reasons but my favorite part is actually the entire last half of the story when she and Sam fall in love.
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Summary: GOLD!!!!!
Review: Seeds of Hope was written by Kristiana Gregory. It is about a girl named Susanna, and her family moving to Oregon. They take a steamboat there in stead of taking a wagon. On the boat, something happens to her mother. The boat stops at California and her father hears about the gold being found in California. Her father was a doctor, but he heard about all the gold and got gold fever. Instead of continuing on to Oregon, they decide to stay in California. I recommend this book to everyone! The book takes place in many different settings. Sometimes it is on the steamboat and sometimes in the miner's camp. This is a great book and it really explains what it was like being a girl in the middle of a miner's camp.
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Summary: WONDERFUL BOOK!!!
Review: Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary Of Susanna Fairchild is a very interesting and exciting Dear America book. Kristiana Gregory is the author of this book, and is also the author of three other Dear America books. Seeds of Hope gives a good description of what it was like to live near a mining town in 1949. It shows Susanna's thoughts and feelings concerning the object that brought so many miners here - gold. In October of 1848, Susanna, 14, and her older sister, Clara, 16, sail with their parents to Oregon to settle there. Her family is stricken with grief when her mother dies in a tragic sea accident, and her father loses all his money. When they hear that gold has just been found in California, her father decides to try mining. Clara and Susanna live in a cabin and experience what gold can do to people. For example, they get cheated of their gold by her father's best friend, and robbed of their money by a stranger. But in all these hardships they find wonderful things to laugh about and enjoy, including when they find their first loves. This challenging time brings the sisters closer together, as they try to survive through the many hardships and find comfort with each other. Through the pages of her diary, Susanna gives a great depiction of what it was like to live in a place where there is no law. Seeds of Hope is longer then some of the other Dear America books, consisting of 186 pages. After the diary, there is the epilogue and then a historical note. The historical note tells all about the gold rush: how it started, who came, how they got there, and what happened to the people who were part of it. In addition, there are pictures in the back of the book depicting miners, a miner's machine (a rocker), the interior and exterior of a ship which brought miners to the gold fields, and a recipe for Miner's Griddle Cakes. There is also a map of the many different routes men took to get to California, and the words to a popular gold miner's song - Clementine. This book is excellent for young adults because it is very well written, and describes what it was like to live in California during America's gold rush. I learned a lot from this book, including how miners panned for gold in the freezing water of the gold streams, how people took the law into their own hands because there were no sheriffs, and how the miners would have a bull fight a bear and bet on the winner. I especially admired the way Susanna always had hope, even when things went wrong - a wonderful example of how we should act today.
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Summary: A Fascinating Diary of a Girl Living during the Gold Rush!
Review: Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary Of Susanna Fairchild is a very interesting and exciting Dear America book. Kristiana Gregory is the author of this book, and is also the author of three other Dear America books. Seeds of Hope gives a good description of what it was like to live near a mining town in 1949. It shows Susanna's thoughts and feelings concerning the object that brought so many miners here - gold. In October of 1848, Susanna, 14, and her older sister, Clara, 16, sail with their parents to Oregon to settle there. Her family is stricken with grief when her mother dies in a tragic sea accident, and her father loses all his money. When they hear that gold has just been found in California, her father decides to try mining. Clara and Susanna live in a cabin and experience what gold can do to people. For example, they get cheated of their gold by her father's best friend, and robbed of their money by a stranger. But in all these hardships they find wonderful things to laugh about and enjoy, including when they find their first loves. This challenging time brings the sisters closer together, as they try to survive through the many hardships and find comfort with each other. Through the pages of her diary, Susanna gives a great depiction of what it was like to live in a place where there is no law. Seeds of Hope is longer then some of the other Dear America books, consisting of 186 pages. After the diary, there is the epilogue and then a historical note. The historical note tells all about the gold rush: how it started, who came, how they got there, and what happened to the people who were part of it. In addition, there are pictures in the back of the book depicting miners, a miner's machine (a rocker), the interior and exterior of a ship which brought miners to the gold fields, and a recipe for Miner's Griddle Cakes. There is also a map of the many different routes men took to get to California, and the words to a popular gold miner's song - Clementine. This book is excellent for young adults because it is very well written, and describes what it was like to live in California during America's gold rush. I learned a lot from this book, including how miners panned for gold in the freezing water of the gold streams, how people took the law into their own hands because there were no sheriffs, and how the miners would have a bull fight a bear and bet on the winner. I especially admired the way Susanna always had hope, even when things went wrong - a wonderful example of how we should act today.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: The book is about two girls and their dad. On there way to organ there mother falls off of the boat. Word got around that there was gold at miners creek so there dad wants them to stop there instead of going to Organ, but they don't want to. When ther father went to work there he started to find gold but wasn't as much as he would get if he was a doctor. Finially things start to look up. read the book to find out what happens next.
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Summary: A Krunk Review
Review: This is a book about a girl named Susanna Fairchild. She lost her mother in a tradic sea accident. and her father loses their life savings so they change their original plan to go to oregon and go to California and look for gold. this book is full of adventure.
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Summary: a review for Seeds of Hope
Review: When spring comes a family sets out for Oregan boat. They plan to go down through the Atlantic ocean and cross into the Pacific ocean at Panama. The family consisted of a father, a fourteen year old daughter, a sixteen year old daughter, and a mother. Along the trip a tragic accident occurs. The mother becomes sick and dies. Later on, word reached the travelers that gold was discovered in California. Gold fever spread. The father dedcided to stop at California and become a miner until they earned the money back they lost at sea. I would recommend this book to everyone interested in learning about westward expansion. It is important to know the setting so you know when the story takes place. Seeds of Hope takes place mostly in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It also takes place in California and the story has a happy ending when they reach Oregan.
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