FREE SHIPPING! - MG - Chasing Gold (by Gillian Richardson)

Paperback
20.3 x 14.0 cm (8.5 x 5.5 in)

Ten-year old Millie Powell and her mother arrive in Dyea, Alaska in 1897 to search for her missing father, a Klondike Gold Rush stampeder. Devastated to learn of his accidental death, they stay on through the tough, cold winter to earn money for the passage home. Millie finds no sense of belonging until meeting Thomas and his dog Rosie. She begins to see reasons to stay, but after a deadly April avalanche, her mother is anxious to return to Victoria. Can she persuade her mother to relocate instead to the now booming town of Skagway, and continue their new way of life? A historical fiction adventure for ages 8-10.