Tuesday, December 02, 2008
GOLD DUST by Geraldine McCaughrean, read by Laurel Lefkow
In this rousing young adult novel, a gold rush in a Brazilian town entices a dizzying array of characters--Amazonian Indians, gold diggers, and moneylenders, to join the greed and folly. Lefkow portrays the evolution of the characters from disbelief to desperation and finally to action.
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