01247cam a2200289 4500 1162828427 TxAuBib 20020225120000.0 961210s1998||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 96053302 9780531300435 0531300439 9780531330432 lib. bdg. 0531330435 lib. bdg. DLC DLC DLC TxAuBib Levitin, Sonia, 1934- Boom town / by Sonia Levitin ; illustrated by Cat Bowman Smith. New York : Orchard Books, 1998. 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 cm. After her family moves to California where her father goes to work in the gold fields, Amanda decides to make her own fortune baking pies and she encourages others to provide the necessary services--from a general store to a school--that enables her town to prosper. 20020225. Frontier and pioneer life California Fiction. California History 1846-1850 Juvenile fiction. California History 1846-1850 Fiction. Smith, Cat Bowman, ill. TXKIP