Gold Mountain

Level 4

The two children watched and waved until the figures grew smaller and smaller. At last the big, white-topped wagon rolled slowly around a bend in the dusty road. Then they could no longer see their old farm.

Daniel and Betsy blinked their blue eyes before they looked at each other. Pa had said that they must not cry when they left their nice farm. They must be happy all the way down the wide valley and across the Cascade Mountains. They must smile as they went up, up into the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon.

“I give Gold Mountain top scores in every category: educational worth, literary merit, moral excellence, and entertainment value. The mission of The Good and the Beautiful is to bring books back to the world that are lovely and praiseworthy—books like Gold Mountain. Let’s give our children the best books and leave behind ‘junk food’ books that promote low character!” —Jenny Phillips

86 pages

This book is a suggested read-aloud for the History Year 3 course.