Partridge, Elizabeth

A biography of Dorothea Lange, whose photographs of migrant workers, Japanese American internees, and rural poverty helped bring about important social reforms.

When hard times fall on his family, Jo Lee is sent from China to San Francisco, where he helps his uncle fish and dreams of being reunited with his mother and sister.

Retells the Japanese story in which an artist struggling to capture the beauty of a fish on paper is turned into a fish himself and experiences firsthand the freedom, wonder, and danger of life in the lake.

In the summer of 1980 before she starts junior high school in Santa Rosa, California, Tracy, who was adopted from Vietnam when she was six years old, finds an old ammo box with a dog tag and picture that bring up painful memories for both her Vietnam-veteran father and her.

Bo bakes a full moon cake as a surprise for his friend Annie, but the outcome is unexpected.

While on a camping trip with his father, a boy draws on the whistling practice they have shared and finally whistles up the sun.

A biography of Dorothea Lange, whose photographs of migrant workers, Japanese American internees, and rural poverty helped bring about important social reforms.