Central Kansas Library System

As fire sweeps through a canyon near Los Angeles, teenagers Danna and Hall Press and other children whose parents are not around must work together to save themselves.

Explores a migrant family's experiences moving through labor camps, facing poverty and impermanence, and discusses how they endure through faith, hope, and back-breaking work.

Cole St. Clair has come to California for one reason: to get back Isabel Culpeper. Isabel fled from Cole's damaged, drained life ... and damaged and drained it even more. He doesn't just want her, he needs her. Isabel is trying to build herself a life in Los Angeles. She can play the game as well as all the other fakes, but what's the point? Cole and Isabel have the power to love each other and the power to tear each other apart. The only thing for...

In 1849, a twelve-year-old girl who calls herself Lucy is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town, where Lucy helps run a rough boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way to get "home."

A collection of eleven short stories focusing on the everyday adventures of Hispanic young people growing up in Fresno, California.

Jesse Harmon searches for the hit and run driver who killed his brother Bry.

Born in the howling storm, in the arctic famine, his brothers and sisters starve to death-but White Fang survives to join the world of the wild wolf, where cold and hunger favor the strong, and spare no pity for the weak. Deadly, harsh, but innocent, this is White Fang's universe....until he is captured.

For more than a year, fourteen-year-old Kristin uses her diary to record her confused thoughts about the physical changes brought on by adolescence and the emotional strain on her family of living with the "ghost" of her beloved older brother who was physi- cally and mentally destroyed while serving in Viet- nam.

A wise old shepherd teaches a young boy lessons about survival, bravery, wisdom, and friendship as he shows him how to take care of a flock of sheep in the harsh Mojave Desert.

After her family moves to California where her father goes to work in the gold fields, Amanda decides to make her own fortune baking pies and she encourages others to provide the necessary services--from a general store to a school--that enables her town to prosper.