During summer break, Christina, Grant, and their two friends Zac and Alex go to Alaska with Mimi and Papa. Mimi inherited a gold mine so they all learn about the Gold Rush era and Forty-Niners.

Mimi inherits a gold mine-the Gold Bug! On summer break, Christina and Grant join their mystery book-writing grandmother and cowboy pilot grandfather, Papa, on an adventure to check out the mine and discover a mystery that could mean boom or bust! LOOK what's in this mystery - people, places, history, and more! Dahlonega Gold Rush (in Georgia) Š California Gold Rush Š James Marshall Š Forty-Niners Š Gold fever Š Travel methods Š Food Š Claims and claim jumping Š Price of goods Š Gold mining (methods, tools, conditions) (especially panning) Š Oregon Trail Š Characteristics of and legends about gold Š Role of Chinese in rush Š Levi Strauss/jeans Š Outcomes of journey Š Yukon Gold Rush (in Alaska) Š Role of women and children Š Klondike gold Š Golden Stairs on the Chilkoot Trail Š Travel methods Š White Pass Š What happens after the gold rush Š Fool's Gold Š Vocabulary (tarmac, bank, hangar, controllers, taxi, runway) Š Float planes Š Gold Rush Museum, Dahlonega, GA Š Alexander's restaurant, Bellingham, WA Š Chinatown - Golden Dragon restaurant - Levi Strauss Company, San Francisco, CA Š Space Needle and Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, Seattle, WA. Like all of Carole Marsh Mysteries, this mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that will keep kids begging for more! This mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, built-in book club and activities. Below is the Reading Levels Guide for this book: Grade Levels: 3-6 Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 4.9 Accelerated Reader Points: 2 Accelerated Reader Quiz Number: 115541 Lexile Measure: 760 Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Level: Q Developmental Assessment Level: 40

A chapter guide of additional information, trivia, historical facts, and more to help teachers be "experts" on the Gold Rush, and more.

Series "Real kids, real places" from cover.

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When The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, “It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.” Twenty years later, no one has emerged to contradict that judgment, and the book has gained recognition as a classic. As the San Francisco Examiner noted, “It is not often that a work of history can be said to supplant every book on the same subject that has gone before it.” Through the diary and letters of William Swain--augmented by interpolations from more than five hundred other gold seekers and by letters sent to Swain from his wife and brother back home--the complete cycle of the gold rush is recreated: the overland migration of over thirty thousand men, the struggle to “strike it rich” in the mining camps of the Sierra Nevadas, and the return home through the jungles of the Isthmus of Panama. In a new preface, the author reappraises our continuing fascination with the “gold rush experience” as a defining epoch in western--indeed, American--history.