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Author McKernan, Victoria, author.

Title Son of fortune / Victoria McKernan.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.

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Location Call No. Status
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Children's Department  J MCK    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Teen  YA Historical McKERNAN    Check Shelf
Edition First Edition.
Description 391 pages ; 22 cm.
Series Aiden Lynch ; 2
Summary In mid-1860s San Francisco, sixteen-year-old Aiden gains a hoped-for chance at a change in fortune when he wins a ship in a poker game, but soon he is involved in Peru's savage guano trade and the exploitation of its Chinese workers.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.5 17.0 162920.
Subject Conduct of life -- Fiction.
Seafaring life -- Fiction.
Commerce -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Chinese fiction. -- Peru.
Peru -- History -- 1829-1919 -- Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.
Seafaring life -- Juvenile fiction.
Commerce -- Juvenile fiction.
Race relations -- Juvenile fiction.
Chinese -- Peru -- Juvenile fiction.
Peru -- History -- 1829-1919 -- Juvenile fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1919
Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Young adult fiction.
ISBN 9780375864568 hardcover
0375864563 hardcover
9780375964565 library binding
0375964568 library binding
9780375857867 paperback
0375857869 paperback
9780375895852 ebook
037589585X ebook
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