Days of Gold

by Ardyce Czuchna-Curl

"POWERFUL. . .GODWIN IS BRILLIANT. . .DEFTLY PLOTTED AND IMAGINED. . . [It] deepened my long-cherished belief about certain forms of art: that in exploring extremities of human behavior, in forcing us to wade through real or metaphorical blood, such art saves us from these experiences and is cathartic in the best sense of the term." --Joyce Carol Oates The Washington Post Francesca married her husband Cameron, an ambitious Los Angeles district attorney,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881960128
• ISBN13: 9780881960129
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Oak Woods Media
• Length: 124 Pages
• Age Range: 9 to 14 years

Customer Reviews

A superbly written and highly recommended adventure novel

Marianne is 12 and her brother Thomas is 14 when they find themselves alone in Seattle at the beginning of the great 1897 Klondike Gold Rush. With a little food from their family grocery story but with no wilderness experience, they set out for the Yukon to find their prospecting father who hasn't been heard from for more than a year. Will Marianne and Thomas find their father, will they survive the threatening arctic winter, tall mountains, wild rapids, and unscrupulous adults? Fortunately they also encounter kindness and generosity, as well as discovering an unexpected courage and endurance within themselves. Days Of Gold is a superbly written and highly recommended adventure novel for young readers ages 9-14.