She was sent from China to America to work as a young servant, but she dreams of studying to be a doctor. Ranger, the time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training, helps two new friends survive the Great San Francisco Earthquake! Ranger travels to San Francisco and meets Lily Chen. Ranger in Time: Escape from the Great Earthquake by Kate Messner Tory comes close to losing everything in her quest for her own and her brother’s freedom. If he is there, Tory must find him in a treacherous search. Then Jacob vanishes, kidnapped, perhaps hidden among the hundreds of ships – called Rotten Row – that have been abandoned in the bay. Though San Francisco is mud-caked, frenzied, and full of wild and dangerous men, Tory quickly finds friends and independence – until her father leaves for the gold fields and the care of Jacob falls to her. When Tory’s father loses his job and decides to seek a share of the newly discovered gold in California, Tory stows away on the westbound ship carrying her father and younger brother, Jacob. Though San Francisco is frenzied and full of wild and dangerous men, Tory finds freedom and friendship there. Determined to take control of her own destiny, Tory stows away on the ship. Victoria Blaisdell longs for independence and adventure, and she yearns to accompany her father as he sails west in search of real gold! But it is 1848, and Tory isn’t even allowed to go to school, much less travel all the way from Rhode Island to California.
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