Walking Up a Rainbow
Theodore Taylor
Library Binding
(Demco Media, Aug. 1, 1996)
In 1852, a fourteen-year-old orphan and her elderly guardian, accompanied by a tough drover and his crew, take several thousand sheep from Iowa to California, returning by ship through the Panama Canal, to raise money to save the girl's home from a villainous debt collector.Inheriting a flock of sheep and a huge debt when her parents die in the 1850s, fourteen-year-old Susan journeys west, hoping to sell the flock
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