california

In 1880s Fresno, California, thirteen-year-old Andi Carter faces a difficult decision when she witnesses a devastating incident involving one of the town's most prominent families, who then threaten her if she tells the truth during the trial.

At the town meeting, Doc surprises everyone by saying that he will not sell his land to developers if the local baseball team can win their next game. Now the team is training hard and hoping to win. But saving Dillontown won't be easy.

Thirteen-year-old Tim has never known anyone like Corky, a boy from the city who has just moved to Tim's small town in the California wine country, but Corky's practical jokes and pranks lead Tim into some uncomfortable situations.

Set during the Great Depression, the powerful story tells of the Joad family's trek from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to the promise of a new life in California. But what they find threaten to rip their lives apart and sever the ties that bind them together.

A fictionalized version of the author's experiences in 1946 when, at the age of sixteen, she was admitted to a San Francisco tuberculosis hospital and courted by a Maharajah's son.

"Lenny, a lumbering hulk of a man with the mind of a child, and his caretaker and good friend George, dream of owning a farm together. Now they've landed a job on a vegetable farm in the Salinas Valley, the dream seems within their grasp. But the boss' son has a flirtatious wife, and guileless Lenny is no match for her. In a fateful few minutes alone whit her, he dashes all hope of leading a normal life. And George must make the most difficult decision imaginable.".

A young Chinese boy nicknamed Runt records his experiences in a journal as he travels from southern China to California in 1852 to join his uncle during the Gold Rush.