Tuesday, March 11, 2008

California Authors: Books Reflecting the Literary Diversity of the Golden State

Grades 9-12

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende









Paula by Isabel Allende










The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende









Alicia: My Story by Alicia Appleman-Jurman








Voices from the Fields: Children of Migrant Farm Workers Tell Their Stories by S. Beth Atkin




Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Patillo Bealls









Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books by Francesca Lia Block








A Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western by Richard Brautigan






The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler









My Own Two Feet: A Memoir by Beverly Cleary








And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City High School Students by Miles Corwin







Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas








Wild Ocean: America's Parks Under the Sea by Sylvia A. Earle







Bad by Jean Ferris













Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris









Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard P. Feynman







Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman








Mind's Eye by Paul Fleischman









Whirligig by Paul Fleischman









Eleanor's Story: An American Girl in Hitler's Germany by Eleanor Ramrath Garner







Nappy: Growing Up Black and Female in America by Aliona Gibson








A Child of Hitler by Alfons Heck










Sonny's War by Valerie Hobbs













The Legend of Fire Horse Woman by Jeanne W. Houston








Celebrating a Quinceanera: A Latina's 15th Birthday Celebration by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith





Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-Li Jiang








Breaking Through by Francisco Jimenez









The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child by Francisco Jimenez








Kissing God Goodbye: Poems, 1991-1996 by June Jordan






The Floating World by Cynthia Kadohata








Chinhominey's Secret by Nancy Kim








The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston







Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924 by Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama







The Brimstone Journals by Ronald Koertge









Stoner and Spaz by Ronald Koertge









Crooked Little Heart by Anne Lamott










The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin








The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin









China Boy by Gus Lee









The Call of the Wild by Jack London








To Build a Fire and Other Stories by Jack London













Parrot in the Oven: Mi vida by Victor Martinez









A Book of Luminous Things by Czeslaw Milosz (editor)







Unattainable Earth by Czeslaw Milosz










McTeague, A Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris








Citizen 13660 by Mine Okubo










Topdog Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks









Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange by Elizabeth Partridge







Always Running: La vida loca, Gang Days in LA by Luis J. Rodriguez







Concrete River by Luis J. Rodriguez








Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez








Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan









True Notebooks by Mark Salzman









Grand Avenue by Greg Sarris








Hurry Freedom: African Americans in Gold Rush California by Jerry Stanley







Cannery Row by John Steinbeck









East of Eden by John Steinbeck









The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck









Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck









The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan









The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan









Rain of Gold by Victor Villasenor









Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes








The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

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