The Ghost of Soda Creek

By Ann Walsh

Short-listed for the 1990 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award

Moving to Soda Creek, a former Gold Rush boomtown in the Cariboo region of interior British Columbia, Kelly Linden and her father try to begin their lives again after a tragic family accident.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dundurn
• Release date: Mar 2, 2009
• ISBN: 9781554886425

Ann Walsh

Ann Walsh is the author of thirteen books for young people. She is a winner of the Canadian Children’s Book Centre Our Choice Award, the Forest of Reading Golden Oak Award, and was a Canadian Library Association Notable selection. She was also shortlisted for the Forest of Reading Silver Birch Award and the B.C. Book Prize. She lives in Victoria, B.C.

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