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187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross The Border:
Undocuments 1971-2007

Juan Felipe Herrera

A Day with Daddy
Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by Nicole Tadgell

A Dime a Dozen
Nikki Grimes
Pictures by Angelo

A Million Nightingales:
A Novel

Susan Straight

A Parrot for Life:
Raising and Training the Perfect Parrot Companion

Rebecca K. O’Connor
Illustrations by April Chmura

A Pocketful of Poems
Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by Javaka Steptoe

A Rush of Hands
Juan Delgado

A Working Man’s Apocrypha:
Short Stories

William Luvaas

Abby’s Attic Adventures
Eleanor Aspin

African Culture and Melville’s Art:
The Creative Process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick

Sterling Stuckey

All the Wild and Lonely Places:
Journeys in a Desert Landscape

Lawrence Hogue

Ambrose and the Cathedral Dream
Margo Sorenson
Illustrated by Katalin Szegedi

Ambrose and the Princess
Margo Sorenson
Illustrated by Katalin Szegedi

American Cookery:
A Novel

Laura Kalpakian

American Indians⁄American Presidents:
A History

Edited by Clifford E. Trafzer

Aneesa Lee and the Weaver’s Gift
Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by Ashley Bryan

Apparition Wren
Maureen Alsop

Aquaboogie
Susan Straight

As Long as the Grass Shall Grow and Rivers Flow:
A History of Native Americans

Clifford E. Trafzer

At Break of Day
Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by Paul Morin

At Jerusalem’s Gate:
Poems of Easter

Nikki Grimes
with Woodcuts by David Frampton

At Work:
The Art of California Labor

Edited by Mark Dean Johnson
Foreword by Gray Brechin
Afterword by Tillie Olsen

Aunt Minnie and the Twister
Mary Skillings Prigger
Illustrated by Betsy Lewin

Aunt Minnie McGranahan
Mary Skillings Prigger
Illustrations by Betsy Lewin

Backyard Birds of the Inland Empire
Sheila N. Kee

Barack Obama:
Son of Promise, Child of Hope

Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by Bryan Collier

Barbara’s Leprechaun:
Memoirs of a Healing Journey

Mary H. Curtin
Foreward by Former U.S. Surgeon General M. Joycelyn Elders, M.D.

Bear E. Bear
Susan Straight
Illustrated by Marisabina Russo

Between Heaven and Here
Susan Straight

Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights
Susan Straight

Bloodvine:
A Novel

Aris Janigian

Boarding School Blues:
Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences

Edited and with an Introduction by Clifford E. Trafzer
Jean A. Keller
and Lorene Sisquoc

Bonelight:
Ruin and Grace in the New Southwest

Mary Sojourner

Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream
Juan Felipe Herrera

Bring Everybody:
Stories

Dwight Yates

Bronx Masquerade
Nikki Grimes

Burn Notice:
The End Game

Tod Goldberg

Burn Notice:
The Fix

Tod Goldberg

C Is For City
Nikki Grimes
Pictures by Pat Cummings

Caifornia:
The Great Exception

Carey McWilliams
Foreward by Lewis Lapham

Califauna:
A Literary Field Guide

and Emily Elrod
Edited by Terry Beers

California Poetry:
From the Gold Rush to the Present

Edited by Dana Gioia
Chryss Yost
and Jack Hicks

California Uncovered:
Stories for the 21st Century

Edited by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
William E. Justice
and James Quay

Calling the Doves ⁄
El canto de las palomas

Juan Felipe Herrera
Pictures by Elly Simmons

Caveat:
A Novel

Laura Kalpakian

Cinnamon Girl:
Letters Found Inside a Cereal Box

Juan Felipe Herrera

City of Quartz:
Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

Mike Davis

Cliff the Climber
Katherine Blanc
Illustrated by Swapan Debnath

Clubhouse Threat
Margo Sorenson
Illustrated by Mark Verna

Come Sunday
Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by Michael Bryant

CrashBoomLove:
A Novel in Verse

Juan Felipe Herrera

Danger Canyon
Margo Sorenson

Danger Marches to the Palace:
Queen Lili’uokalani

Margo Sorenson

Danitra Brown, Class Clown
Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by E. B. Lewis

Dark Sons
Nikki Grimes

Death of Lies:
Socrates

Margo Sorenson
Illustrated by Michael A. Aspengren

Death Stalks the Yakama:
Epidemiological Transitions and Mortality on the Yakama Indian Reservation, 1888-1964

Clifford E. Trafzer

Death Valley in ’49
William Lewis Manly
Edited by LeRoy and Jean Johnson
Foreward by Patricia Nelson Limerick

Delicate:
Stories

Mary Sojourner

Don’t Bug Me
Margo Sorenson

Downtown Boy
Juan Felipe Herrera

Dream Street
Douglas F. McCulloh
Foreward by D.J. Waldie

Ecology of Fear:
Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

Mike Davis

El Campo
Juan Delgado
Paintings by Simón Silva

Emily and the Ostriches
Dan Bernstein
Illustrated by Gary Aagaard

Enriqué Speaks with His Hands
Benjamin Fudge
Illustrated by Tim Edmonson

Epicenter:
Issue 11

Edited by Jeff Green
Cali Linfor
and Rowena Silver

Essential Mary Austin
Edited and with an Introduction by Kevin Hearle

Every Night Is Ladies’ Night:
Stories

Michael Jaime-Becerra

Fake Liar Cheat
Tod Goldberg

Falcon’s Return
Rebecca K. O’Connor

Fast Cars and Frybread:
Reports from the Rez

Gordon Johnson

Featherless ⁄
Desplumado

Juan Felipe Herrera
Illustrations by Ernesto Cuevas Jr.

Fight in the Fields:
Cesar Chavez

Margo Sorenson

Finches
Rebecca K. O’Connor

Firewatch
Margo Sorenson
Illustrated by Michael A. Aspengren

First Families:
A Photographic History of California Indians

L. Frank
Kim Hogeland

Flora of the Santa Ana River and Environs:
With References to World Botany

Oscar F. Clarke

Flutes of Fire: Essays on California Indian Languages
Leanne Hinton

Fool’s Paradise
Carey McWilliams
Introduction by Gray Brechin
Foreword by Wilson Carey McWilliams

Forgotten Voices:
Death Records of the Yakama, 1888-1964

Clifford E. Trafzer
and Robert R. McCoy

From a Child’s Heart
Nikki Grimes
Pictures by Brenda Joysmith

Funny Man
Margo Sorenson

Funny Man Gets Rolling
Margo Sorenson

Giraffe on Fire
Juan Felipe Herrera

Glimmer Train Stories:
Issue 66

William Luvaas
Thomas O’Malley
Christopher Bundy
Ruth Ozeki
Al Sim
Andrea Cohen
Eric Trethewey
Danielle Lavaque-Manty
Jay McInerney

Going Under:
A Novel

William Luvaas

Gold Mountain Girl
Katherine Blanc

Grand Canyon:
A Trail Through Time

Linda Vieira
Illustrations by Christopher Canyon

Grandma and Me at the Flea ⁄
Los Meros Meros Remateros

Juan Felipe Herrera
Illustrations by Anita De Lucio-Brock

Green Web
Juan Delgado

Half of the World in Light:
New and Selected Poems

Juan Felipe Herrera

Haywire Hearts and Slide Trombones:
Stories

Dwight Yates

Help Me! Help Me!
Written and Illustrated by Eleanor Aspin

Highwire Moon
Susan Straight

Hopscotch Love:
A Family Treasury of Poems

Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by Melodye Benson Rosales

How Should the World Respond to Natural Disaters?
Rebecca K. O’Connor

Hurricane!
Nature’s Most Destructive Force

Margo Sorenson

I Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots
Susan Straight

In Praise of Barbarians:
Essays against Empire

Mike Davis

Indian War in the Pacific Northwest:
The Journal of Lieutenant Lawrence Kip

Introduction by Clifford E. Trafzer

Inlandia: A Literary Journey
Various Authors

Inlandia:
A Literary Journey Through California’s Inland Empire

Edited by Gayle Wattawa
Introduction by Susan Straight

Is There Life After Death?
Rebecca K. O’Connor

It’s Raining Laughter
Nikki Grimes
Photographs by Myles C. Pinkney

Jazmin’s Notebook
Nikki Grimes

Just One Vote
Katherine Blanc
Illustrated by Juan Carlos Colla

Kiki’s Journey
Kristy Orona-Ramirez
Illustrations by Jonathan Warm Day

Kimo and the Secret Waves
Margo Sorenson

Laughing Out Loud, I Fly:
Poems in English and Spanish

Juan Felipe Herrera
Drawings by Karen Barbour

Leap into the Unknown:
Albert Einstein

Margo Sorenson

Lift
Rebecca K. O’Connor

Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths
Judy Kronenfeld

Living Dead Girl:
A Novel

Tod Goldberg

Lotería Cards and Fortune Poems:
A Book of Lives Cards and Fortune Poems:
A Book of Lives

Juan Felipe Herrera
Illustrated by Artemio Rodriguez

Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel
Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie

Medicine Ways:
Disease, Health, and Survival among Native Americans

Edited by Clifford E. Trafzer
and Diane Weiner

Meet Danitra Brown
Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by Floyd Cooper

Messy Myko and Tidy Tyko
Written and Illustrated by Eleanor Aspin

My Diary from Here to There ⁄
Mi diario de aquí hasta allá

Amada Irma Pérez
Illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzales

My Life with the Lincolns
Gayle Brandeis

My Man Blue
Nikki Grimes
Pictures by Jerome Lagarrigue

My Very Own Room ⁄
Mi propio cuartito

Amada Irma Pérez
Illustrations by Maya Christina Gonzales

Nana’s Big Surprise ⁄
Nana, ¡Que sorpresa!

Amada Irma Pérez
Illustrations by Maya Christina Gonzales

Native Americans of Riverside County
Clifford E. Trafzer
and Jeffrey Smith

Native Universe:
Voices of Indian America by Native American Tribal Leaders, Writers, Scholars, and Storytellers

Foreward by Kevin Gover
Edited by Gerald McMaster
and Clifford E. Trafzer

No Baths For Betsy
Katherine Blanc
Illustrated by Swapan Debnath

No Dogs, Please!
Written and Illustrated by Katherine Blanc

No Place for a Puritan:
The Literature of California’s Deserts

Edited by Ruth Nolan

Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
Juan Felipe Herrera

Nothing Is For Free
Margo Sorenson

November Grass:
A Novel

Judy Van der Veer
Foreward by Ursula K. Le Guin

Oh, Brother!
Nikki Grimes
Illustrations by Mike Benny

Other Resort Cities:
Stories

Tod Goldberg

Phantom Seed:
Issue 2

Edited by Jeff Green
and Ruth Nolan

Planet of Slums
Mike Davis

Renegade Tribe:
The Palouse Indians and the Invasion of the Inland Pacific Northwest

Clifford E. Trafzer
and Richard D. Scheuerman

Rich:
A Dyamonde Daniel Book

Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie

Rooftops Of Tehran:
Poems

Sholeh Wolpé

ROSE HILL: An Intermarriage Before Its Time
Carlos Cortés

Self Storage:
A Novel

Gayle Brandeis

Seven Floors Up
Cati Porter

Shatter With Words:
Langston Hughes

Margo Sorenson
Illustrated by Dea Marks

Shoe Magic
Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by Terry Widener

Silly Moments
Anna C. Morrison
Art by Marina Movshina

Simplify:
Stories

Tod Goldberg

Soccer Battle
Margo Sorenson
Illustrated by Sue Cornelison

Soccer Blaster
Margo Sorenson

Solace:
Rituals of Loss and Desire

Mary Sojourner

Southern California:
An Island on the Land

Carey McWilliams

Stepping Out with Grandma Mac
Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by Angelo

Still Water Saints:
A Novel

Alex Espinoza

Super Cilantro Girl ⁄
La Superniña del Cilantro

Juan Felipe Herrera
Illustrations by Honorio Robieda Tapia

Super Silly Sayings That Are Over Your Head:
A Children’s Illustrated Book of Idioms

Catherine S. Snodgrass

Take One Candle Light A Room
Susan Straight

Talkin’ About Bessie:
The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman

Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by E. B. Lewis

Testimonios:
Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815-1848

Translated with Introduction and Commentary by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz

Thanks a Million
Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by Cozbi A. Cabrera

The Anza Trail and the Settling of California
Vladimir Guerrero

The Bad Kitty’s Guide to Life
Katherine Blanc

The Bad Puppy’s Guide to Life
Katherine Blanc

The Book of Dead Birds:
A Novel

Gayle Brandeis

The Boy Who Conquered Everest:
The Jordan Romero Story

Katherine Blanc
with Jordan Romero

The California Deserts:
An Ecological Rediscovery

Bruce M. Pavlik

The Declaration of Independence from A to Z
Catherine L. Osornio
Paintings by Layne Johnson

The Dirt is Red Here:
Art and Poetry from Native California

Edited by Margaret Dubin

The Ever-Living Tree:
The Life and Times of a Coast Redwood

Linda Vieira
Illustrations by Christopher Canyon

The Fine Art of California Indian Basketry
Edited by Brian Bibby

The Friskative Dog
Susan Straight

The Geography of Home:
California’s Poetry of Place

Selected and Edited by Christopher Buckley
and Gary Young

The Gettin Place
Susan Straight

The Gotcha Plot
Margo Sorenson

The Heart is Fire:
The World of the Cahuilla Indians of Southern California

Deborah Dozier

The Heart’s Traffic:
A Novel in Poems

Chin-In Chen

The Hidden Dagger
Margo Sorenson

The Littlest Wrangler
J. R. Sanders
Illustrated by Vin Libassi

The Marriage Artist: A Novel

The Mediterranean House in America
Lauren Weiss Bricker
Photography by Juergen Nogai

The Mighty Mississippi:
The Life and Times of America’s Greatest River

Linda Vieira
Illustrations by Higgins Bond

The Raccoon Next Door:
Getting Along with Urban Wildlife

Gary Bogue
Illustrations by Chuck Todd

The Road to Paris
Nikki Grimes

The Runaway Piggy ⁄
El Cochinito Fugitivo

James Luna
Illustrations by Laura Lacámara

The Scar Saloon:
Poems

Sholeh Wolpé

The Secret Heroes
Carla Mishek
and Margo Sorenson

The Seven Seas:
Exploring the World Ocean

Linda Vieira
Illustrations by Higgins Bond

The Tale of Tommy and Teresa Trout:
A Learning Journey from Egg to Fry

Julianna M. Cruz
with Illustrations by Jennifer Anderson

The Tortoise and the Hare Race Again
Dan Bernstein
Illustrated by Andrew Glass

The Upside Down Boy ⁄
El niño de cabeza

Juan Felipe Herrera
Illustrations by Elizabeth Gómez

The Victory Garden
Lee Kochenderfer

Time Trap:
Martin Luther King Jr.

Margo Sorenson

Today..
Written and Illustrated by Katherine Blanc

Tori and the Sleigh of Midnight Blue
Margo Sorenson

Tsunami!:
Death Wave

Margo Sorenson

Two Chilies Dos Chiles
Julianna M. Cruz

Under the Fifth Sun:
Latino Literature from California

Edited by Rick Heide
Foreword by Juan Velasco

Voices of Christmas
Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by Eric Velasquez

Welcome, Precious
Nikki Grimes
Illustrations by Bryan Collier

What is Goodbye?
Nikki Grimes
Illustrations by Raúl Colón

What’s That Look on Your Face?
All About Faces and Feelings

Catherine S. Snodgrass
Forward by Diane Twachtman-Cullen

When Gorilla Goes Walking
Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by Shane Evans

Who Stole the Bases?
Margo Sorenson