Today’s B-P Summer Book Club selection is “The Ballad of Lucy Whipple,” by Karen Cushman. After her mother moves their family west from their home in Massachusetts, California Morning Whipple changes her name to Lucy because, as she writes to her grandparents, “I cannot hate California and be California.” The American Gold Rush comes to life in this well-told coming-of-age story.
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