Miranda, an enrolled member of the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation of California, has written two books of poetry and teaches English at Washington and Lee University. Here, she offers something for e
"From the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar, Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the "Resettlement": the relatively unexamined period
Lam, a Vietnamese-born editor and cofounder of an association of ethnic media outlets who travels between East Asia and the US as a journalist and writer, collects 21 personal essays on how the East a
Homelessness in Los Angeles has burst its traditional borders. These days, downtown's Skid Row is only the ugly epicenter of a staggering problem that radiates outward for more than one hundred miles.
Before outsiders arrived, about 100 distinct Indian languages were spoken in California, many of them alive today. Each of these languages represents a unique way of understanding the world and expres
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, an 11-year-old Japanese-American girl and her family living in California are forced to go to a prison camp in Utah. Reprint.
Amid worldwide accounts of dying languages, author Leanne Hinton and a group of dedicated language activists are doing something about it: they have created a master-apprentice language program, a one
In a nearly wordless story by a husband-and-wife team, colorful pictures of shapes in nature present objects that illustrate each letter of the alphabet, inviting readers to carefully observe and appr
Created by the author and illustrator of the popular Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada and The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds, this set of habitat guides makes plant and animal identification fun and
Expanding on the philosophy and methods of The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling, John Muir Laws and Emilie Lygren have developed the first-ever comprehensive book devoted to helping educators use nature journaling as an inspiring teaching tool to engage young people with wild places. In their workshops Laws and Lygren are often asked the how-tos of teaching nature journaling: how to manage student groups in the outdoors, teach drawing skills (especially from those who profess to have none), connect journaling to educational standards, and incorporate journaling into longer lessons. This book puts together curriculum plans, advice, and in-the-field experience so that educators of all stripes can leap into journaling with their students. The approaches are designed to work in a range of ecosystems and settings, and are suitable for classroom teachers, outdoor educators, camp counselors, and homeschooling parents. Full-color illustrations and sample journal pages from notable n
