orange county (calif.)

At the start of World War II, Japanese-American Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Arizona, while Mexican-American Sylvia's family leases their California farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.

At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.

At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.

The Lums of Orange County seem to be cursed, with every member of the family meeting an untimely demise; and when Louis Lum's mother is killed, Louis is forced to move home to take care of his father and try to stop him from meeting his own end.

Joe, rescued from an orphanage by Orange County Supervisor Will Trona, embarks on a dark and dangerous quest when he vows to find out why his adoptive father, Will Trona, an Orange County politician, was murdered.

Detective Merci Rayborn's abilities and judgment are drawn into question when she insists on pursuing the case of Archie Wildcraft, a promising young cop who was apparently the perpetrator of a murder/suicide attempt that left his wife dead and him hospitalized with a bullet in his head.

Stella Parrish, an attractive, intelligent, alienated seventeen-year-old girl who has lived with foster parents since age eleven, when her parents died of a heroin overdose, chronicles her last two weeks of high school as she plans to commit suicide.

At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.