Good-Bye 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 Lockmoor. Who is this 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 ghost town detectives 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.