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11/18/13

Nine for California

Title: Nine for California
AUTHOR:Sonia Levitin
ILLUSTRATOR: Cat Bowman Smith
PUBLISHER: Orchard Books              
PUBLICATION DATE: 1996
GENRE: Historical Fiction              
READING LEVEL: Ages 5-8
BRIEF OVERVIEW:A family travels twenty-one days across the United States to California to be with their Pa. The family experiences robbers, Indians, buffalo, and other things along the way.
 INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Teach students about the gold rush to California. Discuss what times were like during the gold rush. Have students write three things they learned about the gold rush and traveling by wagons.
REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Shayla Samaras Valdosta State University
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