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A sequel to Nine for California.
In this sequel to Nine for California, Levitin and Smith mine a nugget of American history and turn it into picture book gold. Young Amanda's family has survived the three-week stagecoach trip to California and now the boisterous brood is putting down roots near the gold fields, where Pa pans for a fortune. Eager to make the best of their conditions, Amanda improvises with primitive equipment to turn out pies that she can sell to the miners. When she expands and buys more pans, she recommends to the peddler that he set up a trading post, and the boom begins. Soon she's suggesting that others start a laundry, a livery and other businesses that result in a bustling town. Sparked by a historical report of a "young lady" who earned $11,000 selling pies, this spunky story makes information about westward expansion pulse with fun. Smith's rollicking, dusty-toned watercolors capture the energy of a developing town and convey the can-do spirit of adventurous settlers. Readers inspired by Amanda's success may want to try the gooseberry pie recipe on the endpapers. Ages 5-9. (Mar.)
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| $99.99 | Digital |
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David Martin
reviewed Boom Town on July 24, 2020
Boom Town
First sentence: It took us twenty-one days on the stagecoach to get to California. When we got there, I thought we'd live with Pa in the gold fields. A whole tent city was built up. But Ma shook her head. "The gold fields are no place for children. We'll get a cabin and live in town." What town? A stage stop, a pump house, a few log cabins--that was all. It was so wide and lonesome out west, even my shadow ran off.
Premise/plot: Amanda is our DETERMINED heroine. She has made up her mind that she will figure out a way to bake pies--even if she does only have an iron skillet and an old stove to work with! And her determination may just be the start of a boom town!
This one is loosely based on a fascinating fact, a foot note of history: there really was a young lady who learned to improvise baking pies on a small iron skillet and earned $11,000 with her pie business!
My thoughts: I liked this one. If I'd known it was a companion to another book, I would have gotten that one as well. It's titled Nine for California. I imagine that I would have appreciated both books better for having a more complete story.
Text: 4 out of 5
Illustrations: 3 out of 5
Total: 7 out of 10
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