Bibliography

      

Standard	Title	Author	Annotation
4.1	Mojave	Diane Siebert	Evokes the land and animals of the Mohave Desert in poetic text and illustrations
4.1	Sierra	Diane Siebert	One of the Sierra Mountains speaks of the beauty and timelessness of herself and her sister peaks.
4.1	High Sierra	California Chronicles	Magazine format with articles about the Donner Party, the mountain men, and the geogrphy of the Sierras.
4.1	A Child’s California	Dan Harder	Text and color photos describe the much-varied landscape, nature, and culture of California.
4.1	All Around California: Regions and Resources	Mir Tamin Ansary	Explores the geography of California, describing the topography, climate, major cities, natural resources, and industries of each of the state’s regions, and providing color photos and maps.
4.2	Pasquala	Gail Faber	A young Yokuts Indian girl describes her life on the shores of Old Buena Vista Lake in central California and the events that led her to a Spanish mission outside the world of her people.
4.2	Back in the Beforetime	Jane Louise Curry	A retelling of twenty-two legends about the creation of the world from a variety of California Indian tribes.
4.2	My Ancestor’s Village	Robert Labastida	Describes the life of a Kumeyaay, or Kumiai, Indian girl and her family living in San Diego area long ago. Includes a glossary of Kumeyaay words and a clarification of the different Indian groups from this area.
4.2	Indians of the Oaks	Millicent Lee	Accurate depiction of the Kumeyaay tribe through two engaging stories, one about an orphaned Spanish-American boy who is raised by Kumeyaay, and one about a shaman’s orphaned daughter being raised by a white doctor.
4.2	The Indians and the California Missions	Linda Lyngheim	As the title states this is about the Indians and the missions, succinct and has many uses.  Good shard reading..
4.2	The Indians of California	Time-Life Books	Good detailed information for teacher resource.  Too difficult for most fourth graders
4.2	California Kids	Jim Silverman	Three bilingual short stories about three children in early Californi, one an Indian girl, a boy living on a rancho, and a girl during the gold rush.
4.2	California Native People	Mir Tamin Ansary	Excellent supplement to the textbook, the is an informative, succinct look at the culture of the California tribes.
4.2	California Indians	Mir Tamin Ansary	Describes the traditional way of life of the Indians of California and the changes brought to it by Europeans, discussing homes, clothing, games, crafts, and beliefs.
4.2	Native Americans of Northern California	California Chronicles	Magazine format with articles about Captain Jack and the Modoc War, the year-long process of basket weaving, and the directions for a Maidu race.
4.2	Native Americans of Southern California	California Chronicles	Magazine format with articles about building a Chumash tomol, Indian cowboys, how the Cahuilla lived, bird songs. Rock art, and Chumash counting.
4.2	Missions of the Southern Coast	Nancy Lemke	Charts the histories of the California missions of San Diego de Alcala, San Juan Capistrano, and San Luis Rey de Francia, and briefly describes life among the Native Americans of southwestern California before the arrival of the Spaniards.
4.2	The Stories of Juana Briones	Glenda Richter	Presents the life of a woman whose family members were among the first Hispanic settlers to come to California to establish ranches and to help build missions.
4.2	Rosalba of Santa Juanita	Clara Stities	Story about life on a rancho during the first years of statehood in California.
4.3	Rachel’s Journal	Marissa Moss	In her journal, Rachel chronicles her family’s adventures traveling by covered wagon on the Oregon Trail in 1850.
4.3	Gold Fever	Rosalyn Schanzer	Uses lighthearted illustrations and excerpts from letters, journals, and newspaper articles to relate the story of the California Gold Rush of 1848.
4.3	Treasures in the Stream	Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler	This is an endearing story about a girl who discovers gold in the stream on the land where her parents farm.
4.3	The Ballad of Lucy Whipple	Karen Cushman	In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a rough California mining town.
4.3	Riding Freedom	Pam Munoz Ryan	A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst who ran away from an orphanage, posed as a boy, moved to California, and fooled everyone by her appearance.
4.3	Mr. Blue Jeans	Maryann N. Weidt	Traces the life of the immigrant Jewish peddler who went on to found Levi Strauss & Co.
4.3	Jim Beckwourth: Adventures of a Mountain Man	Louis Sabin	The is a bibliography about a fascinating man who is the son of a slave and her owner who upon receiving his freedom becomes a Mountain Man.
4.3	Statehood	California Chronicles	Magazine format with articles about the Bear Flag Republic, the Compromise of 1850. And state symbols.
4.3	The Legend of Freedom Hill	Linda Jacobs Altman	During the California Gold Rush, Rosabel, an African American, and Sophie, a Jew, team up and search for gold to buy Rosabel’s mother her freedom from a slave catcher.
4.4	The Iron Dragon Never Sleeps	Stephen Krensky	In 1867, while staying with her father in a small California mining town, ten-year-old Winnie meets a Chinese boy close to her age and discovers the role of his people in completing the transcontinental railroad.
4.4	Railroads	California Chronicles	Magazine format with articles about the Big Four and the Central Pacific Railroad, the train that transport California’s produce to other parts of the U.S. and sbout the future of train in California.
4.4	Coolies	Yin	A young boy hears the story of his great-great-great-grandfather and his brother who came to the United States to make a better life for themselves helping to build the transcontinental railroad.
4.4	Pie-biter	Ruthann Lum McCunn	A Chinese boy who comes to the United States to work on a railroad develops a fondness for pies that becomes legendary.
4.4	California in World War I	California Chronicles	Magazine format with articles about how the war shaped California, with its war industries like shipbuilding, Hollywood propaganda, andJapanese internmant
4.4	I Love Hollywood	California Chronicles	Magazine format with articles about the movie industy’s history, the impact of movies on people through various eras, and famous biographies.
4.4	Harvesting Hope	Kathleen Krull	A biography of Cesar Chavez, from age ten when he and his family lived happily on their Arizona ranch, to age thirty-eight when he led a peaceful protest against California migrant workers’ miserable working conditions.
4.4	Gathering the Sun	Alma Flor Ada	An Alphabet in Spanish and English
4.4	John Muir	Thomas Locker	Presents an overview of the life of the naturalist who founded the Sierra Club and was influential in establishing the national park system.
4.4	The Boy on Fairfield Street	Kathleen Krull	Introduces the life of renowned children’s author and illustrator Ted Geisel, popularly known as Dr. Seuss, focusing on his childhood and youth in Springfield, Massachusetts.
4.4	Amelia’s Road	Linda Jacobs-Altman	Tired of moving around so much, Amelia, the daughter of migrant farm workers, dreams of a stable home
4.5	Constitution for California	Bennett Jacobstein	Provides an overview of the Constitution of California and can be used to draw comparisons between the California and U.S.Constitutions.
4.5	California’s 58 Counties	Bennett Jacobstein	Short entries describing the location and major facts about each of California’s 58 counties.
4.5	City Through the Ages	Philip Steele, Ivan Lapper and Andrew Howat	Traces the development of a fictitious city in Western Europe from the Stone Age through the present
4.5	Meet My Grandmother:She’s a United States Senator	Lisa Tucker McElroy	Describes the busy life of Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, seen through the eyes of her six-year-old granddaughter.
4.5	California	Micheal Burgan	Surveys the history, geography, government, and economy of California as well as the diverse ways of life of its people.
4.5	California: The Golden State	Scott Ingram	Illustrations and text explore the history, geography, people, politics and government, economy, and social life and customs of California, the most populous of the fifty states.
4.5	Arnold Schwarzenegger	Colleen Sexton	Biography of Arnold Schwarzenegger including his role as governor of California

 

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