The Boys of San Joaquin

Boys of San Joaquin

<p>In the summer of 1951, Paolo, along with his cousin and younger brother, go on a search to find what may be a vast hidden treasure in the garden behind the Cathedral of San Joaquin and end up on a daring adventure where their courage and morals are put to the ultimate test.</p>

Children's Books

Smith, D. James

Literature & Fiction

Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books

Café Dissertation

Poetry

Hip Pocket Press

<p>Paolo's plan for August in Orange Grove City is to hire out his little brother to the neighbors. Georgie is six; he needs a manager.</p>
<p>But then the family dog, Rufus, is stolen.</p>
<p>Overnight, Paolo is trying to manage not just Georgie, but their deaf cousin, Billy, who speaks only with his hands; Henry, a strange vacation visitor whom the boys discover living locked in his aunt's attic; and Butter Schwartz, a lonely, half-wild schemer with a paper route. The last two are definite dognapping suspects....</p>
<p>To top it all, a girl with a big-time crush on Paolo won't let him be, day or night, crisis or no crisis. For her, missing Rufus is nothing to snaring Paolo, who has met his match as a manager.</p>
<p>The solution to the mystery of Rufus, the threat of Theresa, and the future must rest in Billy's hands.</p>

Probably the World's Best Story About a Dog and the Girl Who Loved Me

Animals

<p>Paolo calls Rufus "a Mack truck with no one driving." Rufus is the O'Neil family dog, and he shows up one morning with part of a twenty-dollar bill in his teeth. <br><br> Twelve-year-old Paolo figures that there must be more where that bill came from, and since his cousin Billy needs to repair a bent wheel on his bike, there's a reason for looking. Soon Paolo, his brother Georgie, and Billy end up in the monsignor's garden behind the Cathedral of San Joaquin, but it's not exactly treasure they find, it's a hand that shoots out of the undergrowth to grab Paolo's neck. The search for the stash leads the boys -- sometimes scared spitless -- on many a byway around Orange Grove City, California, in the summer of 1951. And onto the byway of conscience.</p>

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

<p>It's September, the first week of school at John Muir Junior High School, and Paolo has a lot on his mind. He's thinking about finding a place of his own with his brother Georgie and his cousin Billy, running away part-time -- which means they are running away, but still come back home to eat and sleep and read the paper. He's thinking about the upcoming Halloweell Saints' Day/Mexican Day of the Dead/Chinese Lantern Night carnival, and what booth he, Georgie, and Billy would like to man. He's thinking about Communism and the atom bomb, just like everyone else in Orange Grove, California, in 1951. But most of all, he's thinking about Billy and Veronica, a Chinese girl in his class, who have both become victims of some ofthe community's ignorant but deep-seated ideas about who should be hanging out with whom. And it's this last thought that Paolo, even with Georgie and Billy's help, can't quite figure out. Suddenly, the boys have a real reason to be running away, and maybe not jus</p>

It Was September When We Ran Away the First Time

<p>It's September, the first week of school at John Muir Junior High School, and Paolo has a lot on his mind. He's thinking about finding a place of his own with his brother Georgie and his cousin Billy, running away part-time -- which means they are running away, but still come back home to eat and sleep and read the paper. He's thinking about the upcoming Halloween/All Saints' Day/Mexican Day of the Dead/Chinese Lantern Night carnival, and what booth he, Georgie, and Billy would like to man. He's thinking about Communism and the atom bomb, just like everyone else in Orange Grove, California, in 1951. But most of all, he's thinking about Billy and Veronica, a Chinese girl in his class, who have both become victims of some ofthe community's ignorant but deep-seated ideas about who should be hanging out with whom. And it's this last thought that Paolo, even with Georgie and Billy's help, can't quite figure out. </p>
<p> Suddenly, the boys have a real reason to be running away, and maybe not just part-time. </p>

Paolo's plan for August in Orange Grove City is to hire out his little brother to the neighbors. Georgie is six; he needs a manager. But then the family dog, Rufus, is stolen. Overnight, Paolo is trying to manage not just Georgie, but their deaf cousin, Billy, who speaks only with his hands; Henry, a strange vacation visitor whom the boys discover living locked in his aunt's attic; and Butter Schwartz, a lonely, half-wild schemer with a paper route. The last two are definite dognapping suspects.... To top it all, a girl with a big-time crush on Paolo won't let him be, day or night, crisis or no crisis. For her, missing Rufus is nothing to snaring Paolo, who has met his match as a manager. The solution to the mystery of Rufus, the threat of Theresa, and the future must rest in Billy's hands.

Probably the World's Best Story About a Dog and th

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Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

<p><p>&nbsp;</p> <div><i>"Sounds The Living Make</i> is a deeply satisfying collection of poems.&nbsp;D. James Smith combines the narrator's art with a lyric poet's intense and highly charged sense of setting and language.&nbsp;Whether exploring the labyrinth of memory or the mystery of 'the other,' here are poems that have the edge and authority of fiercely honed truths."&nbsp;--Peter Everwine</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div>"D. James Smith's poems derive, or rather arrive, from the physical world--breaths and glimmers that we will recognize, but with images and language that will transport the reader elsewhere.&nbsp;These poems are intensely felt and beautifully written with surprising layers of complexity that are incantatory and in touch with the sacred."&nbsp;--Gary Short</div> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p></p>

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Stephen F. Austin University Press

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The Boys of San Joaquin

Café Dissertation

Probably the World's Best Story About a Dog and the Girl Who Loved Me

The Boys of San Joaquin

It Was September When We Ran Away the First Time

It Was September When We Ran Away the First Time

Probably the World's Best Story About a Dog and th

Photography Now!: DSLR Photography for Beginners

Sounds the Living Make

Composition Notebook Space Watching , 8.5 x 11 Inches, 110 page Universe Galaxy Memory Keepsake with Strawberry Vintage Gift For Children School Teachers Students Funy Collage Ruled Work From Home