Title: The boys of San Joaquin
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: Families, Juvenile fiction, Deaf, Family life, Coming of age, People with disabilities, Italian Americans, Theft, Stealing, History, Children's fiction, Family life, fiction, Italian americans, fiction, Deaf, fiction, California, fiction
Places: California
Time periods: 1950-