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Son of fortune / Victoria McKernan.

McKernan, Victoria. (Author).

Summary:

In mid-1860s San Francisco, sixteen-year-old Aiden gains a hoped-for chance at a change in fortune when he wins a ship in a poker game, but soon he is involved in Peru's savage guano trade and the exploitation of its Chinese workers.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780375864568
  • ISBN: 0375864563
  • ISBN: 9780375964565
  • ISBN: 0375964568
  • ISBN: 9780375857867
  • ISBN: 0375857869
  • ISBN: 9780375895852
  • ISBN: 037589585X
  • Physical Description: 391 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, 2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (page 391).
Target Audience Note:
800L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader (AR) UG 5.5 17.0
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.5 17 162920.

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Subject: Conduct of life > Fiction.
Seafaring life > Fiction.
Commerce > Fiction.
Race relations > Fiction.
Chinese > Peru > Fiction.
Peru > History > 1829-1919 > Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Genre: Young adult fiction.

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