Wednesday, March 5, 2008

California: Books with Our State as a Setting or Reflecting the California Experience

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







The Plum Plum Pickers by Raymond Barrio








Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books by Francesca Lia Block








A Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western by Richard Brautigan






Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler









The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler









Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco by Marilyn Chase








My Own Two Feet: A Memoir by Beverly Cleary








Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp by Michael Cooper







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







The Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Kim Deitch








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








The Life History of a Star by Kelly Easton









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







California Time by Ernest Finney









My Sister from the Black Lagoon by Laurie Fox








Bitter Melon: Stories from the Last Rural Chinese Town in America by Jeff Gillenkirk and James Motlow




Cecil Poole, A Life in the Law by James Haskins







The Legend of Fire Horse Woman by Jeanne W. Houston








What the Scarecrow Said: A Novel by Stewart David Ikeda








Breaking Through by Francisco Jimenez









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








Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson









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







Crooked Little Heart by Anne Lamott









Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin







China Boy by Gus Lee









Cantora by Sylvia Lopez-Medina








McTeague: A story of San Francisco by Frank Norris







Citizen 13660 by Mine Okubo








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








Concrete River by Luis J. Rodriguez








Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan









True Notebooks by Mark Salzman









The Human Comedy by William Saroyan









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









Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck









Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck









Rain of Gold by Victor Villasenor









Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family by Yoshiko Uchida







Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes

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