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    The Secret Valley
    The Secret Valley
    The Secret Valley
    Ebook98 pages45 minutes

    The Secret Valley

    By Clyde Robert Bulla

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    Join Frank, Ellen, and the whole Davis family on their adventure west during the Gold Rush of 1849. This exciting chronicle has the same appeal as Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 25, 2013
    ISBN9780062290632
    The Secret Valley
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    Clyde Robert Bulla

    Clyde Robert Bulla is the author of over fifty books for children, including The Secret Valley and The Story of Valentine’s Day. He has been writing since 1946, when he published his first book, The Donkey Cart. Mr. Bulla was the first recipient of the Southern California Council on Children’s Literature award for distinguished contribution to the field. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

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      i think this book is a so interesting and didactic stories. i like this author, writing is easy word and phrase.
      i am a korean subscriber from scribd app. only my goal is raise my english reading and comprehension.
      plz like this more and more good books make for everyone.
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    The Secret Valley - Clyde Robert Bulla

    There’s Gold in California

    I

    The Wagon Train

    It was early morning. The sun was not up, and the moon was shining on a cabin near the Missouri River.

    There were four people inside the cabin. One was a girl eight years old. She was standing on a chair. Her father, mother, and brother stood around her while she wrote her name on the cabin wall.

    Ellen Davis, she wrote in big, black letters.

    Good! said her father. Now it’s your brother’s turn.

    The boy took the pencil. He stood on tip-toe and wrote under his sister’s name, Frank Davis.

    His mother was next. Mary Davis, she wrote.

    The man wrote his name last of all, Henry Davis.

    Then he wrote under the names, All left for California April 26, 1849.

    When people stop here, they can read this, he said. It will tell them we lived here and where we have gone.

    He blew out the candle. They all went outside.

    The wagon was ready. Hitched to it were the two mules, Spud and Spike.

    Kitty, kitty, kitty! called Ellen, and a yellow kitten came running.

    He wants to go to California, too, said Frank.

    We can’t take a cat, said Mr. Davis.

    We can’t leave him here, said Ellen. Please, let us take him.

    It’s a long, hard trip to California, said Mr. Davis. Who would take care of a cat all the way?

    Ellen and I can take care of him, said Frank.

    He is just a little cat. See? Ellen held the kitten up in her hands. He won’t take much room in the wagon.

    I don’t think anyone ever took a cat across the West in a covered wagon, said Mr. Davis. But if you want to try, I won’t stop you.

    He helped Mrs. Davis into the wagon and sat on the seat beside her. Frank and Ellen sat in the back, with the kitten between them.

    Spud—Spike—get up! shouted Mr. Davis. The wheels turned.

    Here we go, said Frank. We’re on our way to California.

    Will we ever come back here? asked Ellen.

    When we get to California and find gold, said Frank, we won’t want to come back.

    What if we don’t find gold? asked Ellen.

    Everyone finds gold in California, Frank told her. Some men found it first at a place called Sutter’s Mill. Then they found it in the rivers and rocks and under the trees. We’ll be rich. You wait and see.

    The wagon rolled along. The sky grew lighter. Birds woke up and began to sing.

    I know what I want when we get to California, said Ellen. I want a garden.

    You had a garden here in Missouri, said Frank.

    It wasn’t a good one. It was full of rocks, and the rabbits came and ate all my beans. I want a real garden, with flowers on the sides and things to eat in the middle. That’s what I want in California.

    "I want some land with good grass on it, so I can raise

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