Burack, Emilie Christie, <br/><br/>
The runaway's gold :  a novel / 
by Emilie Christie Burack. 
 - 305 pages :  map ;  22 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> "The protagonist of this historical novel, which is set in the Shetland Islands and also New York City around 1840, is Christian Robertson, a crofter and son of a crofter (small, struggling tenant farmer). When Christian's brother frames him for the theft of a bag of coins, Christian must leave home and embark on a journey to return the coins and clear his name"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781419713699 1419713698 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014029831 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Emigration and immigration--Fiction.<br/>Coins--Fiction.<br/>Scottish Americans--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Shetland (Scotland)--History--19th century--Juvenile fiction.<br/>Shetland (Scotland)--History--19th century--Fiction.<br/>Scotland--History--19th century--Fiction.<br/>New York (N.Y.)--History--1775-1865--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JUV PZ 7.1 .B87  / Ru 2015