Bo-Bo's Cave of Gold
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Text copyright © 2020 by Pamela Berkman and Dorothy Hearst
Illustrations copyright © 2020 by Claire Powell
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Cover art has been rendered by hand and colored in Photoshop. All interior illustrations have been drawn by hand using pencil and graphite.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Berkman, Pamela, author. | Hearst, Dorothy, 1966– author. | Powell, Claire, illustrator.
Title: Bo-Bo’s cave of gold / Pam Berkman and Dorothy Hearst ; illustrated by Claire Powell.
Description: First edition. | New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2020] | Series: At the heels of history | Audience: Ages 6–9. | Audience: Grades 2–3. | Summary: In 1852 California, stray mutt Bo-Bo and his friend, ten-year-old gold prospector Sheng, must risk great danger seeking a rumored treasure after Bo-Bo’s kindness leads Sheng into debt.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019031567 (print) | ISBN 9781534433359 (pbk) | ISBN 9781534433366 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781534433373 (eBook)
Subjects: CYAC: Dogs—Fiction. | Gold mines and mining—Fiction. | Chinese Americans—Fiction. | Swindlers and swindling—Fiction. | California—History—1846–1850—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.B457 Bo 2020 (print) | DDC [Fic]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019031567