1850-1950

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1850-1950

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2013
An Irish boy and a Chinese boy become friends, despite their mistrust and prejudices, while working on the Transcontinental Railroad in 1866.

Mendoza in Hollywood

a novel of the company
2000
Presents the adventures of Botanist Mendoza as she attempts to thwart "The Company's" promises to render humans immortal in this twenty-fourth-century adventure.

Richard Milhous Nixon

the rise of an American politician
1990
A biography of the thirty-seventh President of the United States.

Riding freedom

1998
A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst who ran away from an orphanage, posed as a boy, moved to California, and fooled everyone by her appearance.

On the Blue Comet

2010
When the Depression hits in Cairo, Illinois, and Oscar Ogilvie's father must sell their home and vast model train set-up to look for work in California, eleven-year-old Oscar is left with his dour aunt, where he befriends a mysterious drifter, witnesses a stunning bank robbery, and is suddenly catapulted onto a train that takes him to a different time and place.

The dragon's child

a story of Angel Island
2008
Ten-year-old Gim Lew Yep immigrates from China to America with his father, whom Gim barely knows, and fears he will be a disappointment to his family when he arrives at Angel Island.

A boy no more

2004
After his father is killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Adam, his mother, and sister are evacuated from Hawaii to California, where he must deal with his feelings about the war, Japanese internment camps, his father, and his own identity.

Walk across the sea

2001
In late nineteenth-century California, when Chinese immigrants are being driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites, fifteen-year-old Eliza Jane McCully defies the townspeople and her lighthouse-keeper father to help a Chinese boy who has been kind to her.

Bandits!

a dangerous adventure on gold rush trails
2009
In 1853, a 13-year-old California boy runs away to prospect for gold but is abducted by the infamous highwayman Joaquin Murieta and forced to accompany the robber band on a month-long tour.

Letters from the corrugated castle

a novel of Gold Rush California, 1850-1852
2009
An epistolary novel set in the 1850s, in which thirteen-year-old Eldora, who was raised in Massachusetts as an orphan, moves with her guardians to San Francisco, where she begins teaching two "Mexicano" children English, befriends a boy searching for gold, and finds herself face-to-face with her influential mother.

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