Adventure in Gold Town
By Deborah Hopkinson and Bill Farnsworth
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But Davey's problems are forgotten when fire threatens to destroy the town. Will Dawson survive? And will Davey find what he's looking for among the ashes?
Deborah Hopkinson
Deborah Hopkinson is the author of Small Places, Close to Home and Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen, among more than fifty acclaimed works for young readers including picture books, middle-grade fiction, and nonfiction that help bring history and research alive. Deborah lives near Portland, Oregon with her family and a menagerie of pets. You can visit her online at www.deborahhopkinson.com.
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Adventure in Gold Town - Deborah Hopkinson
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to the publisher, and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this stripped book.
This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
First Aladdin Paperbacks edition November 2004
Text copyright © 2004 by Deborah Hopkinson
Illustrations copyright © 2004 by Bill Farnsworth
ALADDIN PAPERBACKS
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All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.
Also available in an Aladdin library edition.
Designed by Sammy Yuen, Jr.
The text of this book was set in Palatino.
Printed in the United States of America
2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3
Library of Congress Control Number 2004102671
ISBN-13: 978-0-689-86035-5
ISBN-10: 0-689-86035-8
eISBN 13: 978-1-439-11366-0
For Kathleen Clark, with love and gratitude
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 WAITING FOR THE ICE
2 KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT!
3 WHITE HORSE RAPIDS
4 TROUBLE IN DAWSON CITY
5 SOURDOUGH PANCAKES
6 THE MARY ELLEN HILL MEMORIAL DOG SHELTER
7 JOE TWO
8 FIRE IN GOLD TOWN
9 TRUE RICHES
SOURDOUGH STARTER RECIPE
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Book Three of THE KLONDIKE KID Trilogy
Adventure in Gold Town
CHAPTER ONE
Waiting for the Ice
When I opened my eyes, it was just getting light.
Today,
I whispered, scrambling out of my sleeping bag. It just has to happen today!
I grabbed my boots, being careful not to wake Erik. It wasn’t easy to get to the edge of the lake. I had to zigzag in and out through a maze of tents. Thousands of people were crowded here by Lake Bennett, all waiting for the same thing.
And I wanted to be the first to see it.
At last I reached the shore. Snowcapped mountains rose on either side of the long, narrow lake. As I scanned the surface, my heart fell. The water was still clogged with thick, slushy ice.
Come on, sun!
I grumbled out loud. Come out and melt this ice.
Suddenly a heavy hand came down on my shoulder. Startled, I whirled around.
A tall, burly man loomed over me. With his dark, dirt-covered clothes and bushy beard, he looked like a giant brown bear. The man reached over and ruffled my hair.
Hey, Klondike Kid, you’re up early again.
His voice was gruff, but Big Al’s warm brown eyes twinkled.
It’s taking forever for the ice to go out,
I cried. I was so sure there’d be a path of open water this morning.
The ice had been breaking up for weeks. Every day it groaned and crackled, the sounds splitting the air like sharp cracks of thunder. Added to that were the noises of boat-building—crashing