Profiles the man called one of California's most important founding fathers, who fought for the rights of the Native Americans there while paving the way for California to join the United States.
While illegally crossing the border into the United States, a young Mexican girl takes on a leadership role in her family when her parents become separated.
After the United States wins the war with Mexico in 1848, life on her Mexican family's ranch in California is greatly changed for thirteen-year-old Cesa.
Explores relations between Mexico and the United States through a collection of nine loosely related fiction stories about people who are in some way connected to Leonardo Barroso, a powerful Mexican oligarch whose villa sits near the border of the two countries.
Nora, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl, faces the challenges of being an illegal immigrant in Texas when she and her mother cross the border in search of Nora's father.
When fifteen-year-old Miguel's time finally comes to leave his poor Mexican village, cross the border illegally, and join his parents in California, his younger sister's determination to join him soon imperils them both.
When fifteen-year-old Miguel's time finally comes to leave his poor Mexican village, cross the border illegally, and join his parents in California, his younger sister's determination to join him soon imperils them both.
