Goodbye God, I'm Going to Bodie — Jan Pierson

When 12-year-old Meggie and her best friend, Paige uncover the missing diary in the ghost town of Bodie, California, they have no idea what secrets had been buried for over a hundred years. Bodie -- once known as the "Wildest Mining Camp in the West" -- comes to life through the words of Anna Louise Lackmoor. Who is this unknown girl whose words, "Goodbye God, I'm going to Bodie" have become a legend? Why was she afraid? What was she hiding?

Meggie, Paige and a kid named Johnny Downing set out to discover Anna's secrets, but the three Ghostowners end up with a whole lot more than they had bargained for.

Historical fiction crawls out from beneath the sagebrush and skeleton shacks, bringing the West to life and taking middle grade readers on a wild and woolly ride back in time.