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Gold in the Hills

A tale of the Klondike Gold Rush (Time Spies #8)

by Candice Ransom

Published 2008128 pagesISBN 978-0-7869-4776-8

The Time Spies catch Gold Fever! In this eighth Time Spies title, the Chapman kids pop back to 1897, to the area that will one day be known as Alaska. There, they meet a boy who is prospecting with his father during the Klondike Gold Rush. When the boy's prized Malemute is stolen, the Time Spies set out to track down the sled dog with the help of a young prospector, who turns out to be none other than famed American adventure writer, Jack London. From acclaimed author Candice Ransom, comes another Time Spies adventure so fun to read that kids won't realize how much they're learning about American history (until it's too late)!

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Nonfiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Science Fiction · Fantasy · Nonfiction

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Reading experience

Balanced tone · Urgent pace

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Gold in the HillsCandice Ransom
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Reading lengthA shorter read128 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 2008
Primary categoryScience FictionAlso cataloged under Fantasy and Nonfiction
ISBN-13
978-0-7869-4776-8
Language
English
Edition record
OL11088080M
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Good to know

Works well for a focused weekend or a few concentrated sittings.

Begin with its place in Science Fiction, then notice where the book resists that label.

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Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. Which familiar part of life becomes easier to see through this imagined world?
  2. What rules shape the world, and who benefits from them?
  3. Where does wonder, fear, or possibility change a character’s choices?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.