Boom Town

By Sonia Levitin

Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life, Business, fiction, California, fiction, Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, Picture books

Description: After her family moves to California where her father goes to work in the gold fields, Amanda decides to make her own fortune baking pies and she encourages others to provide the necessary services--from a general store to a school--that enables her town to prosper.