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A city tossed and broken : the diary of Minnie Bonner /

It is 1906, and when her family is cheated out of their tavern, fourteen-year-old Minnie Bonner is forced to become a maid to the Sump family, who are moving to San Francisco--three weeks before the great earthquake.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blundell, Judy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Scholastic, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Dear America.
Subjects:
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 > Juvenile fiction.
Women household employees > California > San Francisco > Juvenile fiction.
Diaries > Juvenile fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) > History > Juvenile fiction.
Diary fiction.
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 > Fiction.
Earthquakes > Fiction.
Household employees > Fiction.
Family life > California > Fiction.
Diaries > Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) > History > 20th century > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Description
Summary:It is 1906, and when her family is cheated out of their tavern, fourteen-year-old Minnie Bonner is forced to become a maid to the Sump family, who are moving to San Francisco--three weeks before the great earthquake.
Physical Description:218 pages : photographs, map ; 20 cm.
ISBN:9780545310222 (paper over board)
0545310229 (paper over board)