Title: The boys of San Joaquin
First published: 2005
Description: In a small California town in 1951, twelve-year-old Paolo and his deaf cousin Billy get caught up in a search for money missing from the church collection, leading them to complicated discoveries about themselves, other family members, and townspeople they thought they knew.
Subjects: Deaf, Family life, Fiction, Coming of age, People with disabilities, Italian Americans, Stealing, California, History, Families, Juvenile fiction, Theft, Bildungsromans, Children's fiction, Family life, fiction, Theft, fiction, Italian americans, fiction, Deaf, fiction, People with disabilities, fiction, California, fiction
Places: California
Time periods: 1950-
LC classification: PZ7.S644645 Bo 2005