Theme: California

Dogtag Summer

By Book Importer | Published: September 26, 2011

Twelve-year-old Tracy–or Tuyet–has always felt different. The villagers in Vietnam called her con-lai, or “half-breed,” because her father was an American GI. And she doesn’t fit in with her adoptive family in California, either. But when Tracy and a friend discover a soldier’s dogtag hidden among her father’s things, it sets her past and her [...]

Descriptors: Asia, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Viet Nam » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Side By Side/Lado A Lado

By Book Importer | Published: July 6, 2011

Every day, thousands of farmworkers harvested the food that ended up on kitchen tables all over the country. But at the end of the day, when the workers sat down to eat, there were only beans on their own tables. Then Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez teamed up. Together they motivated the workers to fight [...]

Descriptors: Biography, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Nonfiction, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), United States of America » Other Themes: , , , , , , » 2 Comments

Dark Water

By Book Importer | Published: May 25, 2011

Fifteen-year-old Pearl DeWitt and her mother live in Fallbrook, California, where it’s sunny 340 days of the year, and where her uncle owns a grove of 900 avocado trees. Uncle Hoyt hires migrant workers regularly, but Pearl doesn’t pay much attention to them . . . until Amiel. From the moment she sees him, Pearl [...]

Descriptors: Fiction, United States of America, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

The Ghosts of Luckless Gulch

By Book Importer | Published: May 3, 2010

Estrella can run so fast that she burns up the air, leaving trails of flames wherever she goes.Her pets — a Kickle Snifter, a Sidehill Wowser, and a Rubberado puppy — are as untamed as California, and the pride and love of Estrella’s heart.When the greedy ghosts of old gold miners steal her pets, Estrella [...]

Descriptors: Americas, Folklore, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Picture Book, United States of America » Other Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment