Sherry Garland

The 1845-1846 diary of thirteen-year-old Maria, servant to the wealthy Spanish family which took her in when her Indian mother died. Includes a historical note about the settlement and early history of California.

After a winter storm destroys the sand dunes that provide a home for plants and animals, a beach community bands together to restore the dunes.

An illustrated collection of Vietnamese folktales with explantory notes following each story.

Thirteen-year-old Alyssa has not spoken since seeing her parents die in a hurricane, and now, three years later, another storm threatens the home she shares with her grandfather on Galveston Island.

Conscripted into the Mexican Army, fifteen-year-old Lorenzo Bonifacio makes some unexpected alliances and learns some harsh truths about General Santa Ana as the troops move toward the Battle of the Alamo.

A Vietnamese folktale explaining why ducks sleep on one leg.

Host LeVar Burton introduces the book The lotus seed by Sherry Garland about a young Vietnamese woman who, when forced to flee her country, takes a lotus seed with her as a warm reminder of her past. Also, a Vietnamese girl, a Muslim boy from Yemen, a girl from South Africa, and other immigrants talk about their lives in the United States. Other books mentioned are I'm new here by Bud Howlett, Halmoni and the picnic by Sook Nyul Choi, and Grandfather's...