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    <body><![CDATA[This is a moving tale of a young girl by the name of California Morning Whipple.  She is dismayed that her family is moving to Calfornia.  It is the summer of 1849, and California vows to be miserable about her situation.  The book relates her adventures over a span of several years, during which ti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24130451">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my absolute, all-time favorite books.  Karen Cushman is a wonderful writer, and I like everything she's done, but I guess I relate to this one the most.  Perhaps it's because Lucy has lost her father, is moving to a place she has no desire to go to, and LOVES her books. I also appreciate her ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26967411">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a wholesome story that begins in 1849 about set during the Westward Expansion and the California Gold Rush.  Our main character is 12 year-old California Morning Whipple, whose life is unsettled when her widowed mother uproots her and her brother, Butte, and sisters Prairie and Sierra from t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60316793">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Since I couldn't find The Midwife's Apprentice by the same author at my local library, I settled for this lesser known title.  I am so glad I did.  Olivia and read this together.  It is a story told by a young lady who was uprooted along with her family to go to California and work and live among mi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22057840">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<em>Dear Gram and Grampop,<br/>Please do not address yours truly as California anymore, California Morning Whipple being a foolish name for a duck much less a girl. I call myself Lucy now. I cannot hate California and be California. I know you will understand.</em>California doesn't suit Lucy Whipple -- not the name, not the place. But moving out West to Lucky Diggins, California, was her mama's dream-come-true. And now her brother, Butte, and sisters, Prairie and Sierra, seem to be Westerners at heart, too. For Lucy, Lucky Diggins is hardly a town at all -- just a bunch of ramshackle tents and tobacco-spitting miners. Even the gold her mama claimed was just lying around in the fields isn't panning out. Worst of all, there's no lending library! <em>Dag diggety!</em>&lt;/p&gt;So Lucy vows to be plain miserable until she can hightail it back East where she belongs. But Lucy California Morning Whipple may be in for a surprise -- because home is a lot closer than she thinks... &lt;/p&gt; <p>When California Morning Whipple's widowed mother uproots her family from their comfortable Massachusetts environs and moves them to a rough mining camp called Lucky Diggins in the Sierras, California Morning resents the upheaval. Desperately wanting to control something in her own life, she decides to be called Lucy, and as Lucy she grows and changes in her strange and challenging new environment. Here Karen Cushman helps the American Gold Rush spring to colorful life, just as she did for medieval England in her previous two books, <em>Catherine, Called Birdy</em> and <em>The Midwife's Apprentice,</em> which won Newbery Honor status and a Newbery Medal respectively.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought I had read this book when I was younger, but the story did not sound familiar to me at all. All I remembered was the title and one scence with an indian girl. I figured I had the wrong book, but when I read it; there is was! I remember picking this book up because some girl in my class tho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57298617">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great story about a young girl whose family moves to California during the Gold Rush. She hates her circumstances but finds a way to change her life. It's an all around great story. Karen Cushman writes stories about strong girls.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a fantastic realistic portrayal of 19th century gold fever life in California.  I pitied poor California Morning Whipple (aka Lucy) as she laments her unwillingness to leave her familiar life in Massachusetts to venture into the unchartered country of Lucky Diggins, California with her ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45989625">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite books in 5th grade. California Morning Whipple (or Lucy, as she prefers to be called) has moved to her namesake state with her mother and three siblings (Butte, Prairie, and Sierra - their mom really likes California) after her father's death. They settle in a gold mining town cal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62047148">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The only constant thing in this life is change&quot;, I think that is the basic theme for this book. Lucy learns through hard work, sweat and tears that sometimes we must do things that we don't want to do and that includes moving from Massachusetts to California during the gold rush days when...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17006595">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<em>Dear Gram and Grampop,<br/>Please do not address yours truly as California anymore, California Morning Whipple being a foolish name for a duck much less a girl. I call myself Lucy now. I cannot hate California and be California. I know you will understand.</em>California doesn't suit Lucy Whipple -- not the name, not the place. But moving out West to Lucky Diggins, California, was her mama's dream-come-true. And now her brother, Butte, and sisters, Prairie and Sierra, seem to be Westerners at heart, too. For Lucy, Lucky Diggins is hardly a town at all -- just a bunch of ramshackle tents and tobacco-spitting miners. Even the gold her mama claimed was just lying around in the fields isn't panning out. Worst of all, there's no lending library! <em>Dag diggety!</em>&lt;/p&gt;So Lucy vows to be plain miserable until she can hightail it back East where she belongs. But Lucy California Morning Whipple may be in for a surprise -- because home is a lot closer than she thinks... &lt;/p&gt; <p>When California Morning Whipple's widowed mother uproots her family from their comfortable Massachusetts environs and moves them to a rough mining camp called Lucky Diggins in the Sierras, California Morning resents the upheaval. Desperately wanting to control something in her own life, she decides to be called Lucy, and as Lucy she grows and changes in her strange and challenging new environment. Here Karen Cushman helps the American Gold Rush spring to colorful life, just as she did for medieval England in her previous two books, <em>Catherine, Called Birdy</em> and <em>The Midwife's Apprentice,</em> which won Newbery Honor status and a Newbery Medal respectively.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Karen Cushman is a great author.  I liked her book, &quot;The Midwife's Apprentice&quot; better.  This book is great though - I laughed out loud several times at Lucy's anecdotes. Ending was a little predictable but I still like it.<br/><br/>Here's the review from Amazon:<br/><br/>Amazon.com<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14299589">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Why is it so often juvenile fiction is written with such care and with such great style and yet we tend to pick up so much fiction aimed at adults that is mediocre at best! This is a lovely book. Lucy, or California as her parents named her, is not happy to have been ripped from her Massachusetts ho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63914170">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have really enjoyed Karen Cushman's books. They are short and educational. It's easy to inmagine yourself in these girls shoes, I'm sure some of my ancesters experenced simular circumstances. I escpecially liked this book,I can see a lot of myself in the main charictor. She has to learn to accept ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44519548">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was okay.  I don't really like historical fiction books very much and don't read a lot of them.  I gave it three stars because it wasn't the best but was pretty good.  The girl Lucy is from Massachusetts. They move to California and she misses Massachusetts so much.  Lucy doesn't get why t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80531076">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book lying on the 'free old/unwanted books' shelf outside my library and snatched it up with glee and disbelief.  I LOVE Karen Cushman's books and this one turned out to be no exception.  For a start I find the period of history it's set in fascinating, and as usual KC really made it co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60970406">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<em>Dear Gram and Grampop,<br/>Please do not address yours truly as California anymore, California Morning Whipple being a foolish name for a duck much less a girl. I call myself Lucy now. I cannot hate California and be California. I know you will understand.</em>California doesn't suit Lucy Whipple -- not the name, not the place. But moving out West to Lucky Diggins, California, was her mama's dream-come-true. And now her brother, Butte, and sisters, Prairie and Sierra, seem to be Westerners at heart, too. For Lucy, Lucky Diggins is hardly a town at all -- just a bunch of ramshackle tents and tobacco-spitting miners. Even the gold her mama claimed was just lying around in the fields isn't panning out. Worst of all, there's no lending library! <em>Dag diggety!</em>&lt;/p&gt;So Lucy vows to be plain miserable until she can hightail it back East where she belongs. But Lucy California Morning Whipple may be in for a surprise -- because home is a lot closer than she thinks... &lt;/p&gt; <p>When California Morning Whipple's widowed mother uproots her family from their comfortable Massachusetts environs and moves them to a rough mining camp called Lucky Diggins in the Sierras, California Morning resents the upheaval. Desperately wanting to control something in her own life, she decides to be called Lucy, and as Lucy she grows and changes in her strange and challenging new environment. Here Karen Cushman helps the American Gold Rush spring to colorful life, just as she did for medieval England in her previous two books, <em>Catherine, Called Birdy</em> and <em>The Midwife's Apprentice,</em> which won Newbery Honor status and a Newbery Medal respectively.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was one of the first books that I had ever read in 6th grade. I loved the book because it depicted a girl who lived through the Gold Rush and a young girl who took advantage and began teaching herself. I love how she was able to be an attorney after reading the book. ]]></body>
    
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