In 1849, a twelve-year-old girl who calls herself Lucy is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town, where Lucy helps run a rough boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way to get "home."
- ISBN10 0330351087
- ISBN13 9780330351089
- Publish Date 8 August 1997 (first published 1 January 1996)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 11 September 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Macmillan Children's Books
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 208
- Language English