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Anisett Lundberg: American Diaries #3: California 1851

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Anisett's father died travelling to California. Now Anisett, her brother, and her mother struggle to make ends meet. Anisett finds a chunk of gold in the stream behind the cabin. When someone finds out about the gold and sets out to find it, Anisett must save her family.

This book, was good. It told of Anisett Lundberg and her life in the Gold Rush era (1848-around 1853) of California. Her father died so her mother watches over her and her little brother. They make a living selling food to the men panning for gold. But Anisett keeps seeing a strange blond-haired man. What is he up too? When the Lundbergs are in trouble Anisett must save the day!

Twelve-year-old Anisett's father died on the long journey by wagon train west to California. Now her mother provides for Anisett and her little brother by selling food to the miners. When Anisett finds a chunk of gold in the stream behind their little cabin, she knows this discovery could end the hardship of her family's life. When a desperate, gold-hungry miner learns of Anisett's discovery, he takes Anisett and her family hostage and threatens to kill them if they don't reveal where they found the gold. Anisett put her family in danger - now she has to save them. This was an exciting historical novel that I highly reccomend.

I give this book four and a half stars.I give it four and a half stars because Anisett Lundberg is about a girl who's father had died.She lives with her mother and her brother Colin.Every morning she has to wake up before the sun comes out.Her brother gets to sleep later.She has to get up to help her mother make dinners for camps of miners.That day she has to get meat for stew.She gets the pails for stew.Then she goes upstairs to make the stew.After she made the stew she helped her mother make biscuits and gravy.After that she put new lunch pails around the table for the miners.Today they need about 90 pails.Then they filled the pails with biscuits and gravy and stew. Her mother told to go hitch the mule when she woke up Colin and got him ready.They og to the first camp and they meet a blonde man who is really mean They go to the second camp and they meet a guy whos name is Toby.They go to the third camp and Toby caomes with them because his uncles work there.They sold all there pails then they went home and Toby was riding home on his horse with them and the blonde man came.He kidnapps them. The moms friend Yen comes by and she waves at him.Then the blonde man has the mom bring them to her cabin to find gold.I will not tell you any more but if you want to find out what happens read Anisett Lundberg.

I know many people enjoyed this book, but it is just not for me. I tried to read this book but never got past the third chapter! If I could, I would change many things about this book. First of all, lets get a little more action in here! I wish Kathleen Duey would start the action a little closer to the beginning of this book. It's a pain just trying to get to the good part! Also, if she really has to start the action so close to the end of the book, can't she make the beginning of this book a little more interesting? The rest of the American Diaries books are much better than this one. At least the beginning of all the other ones are interesting!