The runaway's gold

By Emilie Christie Burack

Subjects: Coins, New york (n.y.), history, fiction, Treasure troves, Coins, fiction, Scottish Americans, Scotland, history, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Emigration and immigration, Emigration and immigration, fiction, Juvenile fiction, History

Description: "The protagonist of this historical novel, which is set in the Shetland Islands and also New York City around 1840, is Christopher Robertson, a crofter and son of a crofter (small, struggling tenant farmer). When Christopher's brother frames him for the theft of a bag of coins, Christopher must leave home and embark on a journey to return the coins and clear his name"--