Striking It Rich: The Story of the California Gold Rush (Ready-to-Read)

From School Library Journal Grade 2-4?The numerous cartoon-style illustrations, large print, and beginning-to-read look will help lure newly independent readers to this title. The straightforward factual account includes the 1848 discovery of gold, the spread of gold fever, the land and sea routes to California, the life of the miners, the injustices to immigrants, the population growth, and the economic development of northern California. The hand-drawn map is, unfortunately, difficult to read. Striking It Rich is nonetheless an appealing introduction to a fascinating chapter in our country's past and might draw readers to more in-depth presentations like Rhoda Blumberg's The Great American Gold Rush (Bradbury, 1989).?Gale W. Sherman, Pocatello Public Library, IDCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. From