A city tossed and broken, San Francisco, California, 1906

Judy Blundell First published 2013

About this book

It is 1906, and when her family is cheated out of their tavern, fourteen-year-old Minnie Bonner is forced to become a maid to the Sump family, who are moving to San Francisco--three weeks before the great earthquake.

Subjects

children's fiction
diaries
diaries, fiction
earthquakes
earthquakes, fiction
family life
family life, fiction
fiction
history
household employees
household employees, fiction
juvenile fiction
san francisco (calif.), fiction
san francisco earthquake and fire, calif., 1906
women household employees