01119cam a2200241 4500 496754238 TxAuBib 20210318120000.0 980603s1996||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 98818713 9780064406840 0064406849 TxAuBib Cushman, Karen. The ballad of Lucy Whipple [PB] / Karen Cushman. New York : HarperTrophy, 1996. 195 p. 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. There Lucy helps run a boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way to return "home.". 20210318. Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress). https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1109/98818713-b.html Contributor biographical information https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1109/98818713-d.html Publisher description