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5) Dust devils
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Young Ira Hamilton's plan to marry an Indian girl is opposed by his father, a racist Nevada rancher. But the theft of a horse will give Ira the opportunity to show he is man enough to make his own decisions.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
"I know it's simplistic," writes Christopher Buckley, "but nine out of ten days all I want to do is drive an old Chevy again, lean back against the wide bench seat, switch the AM radio on to a game, shift that 3-speed on the column, and cruise with the windows down." You can almost feel the sun-warmed vinyl against the shoulder blades as you read this memoir of childhood and adolescence in California, the Golden State, in what now seems a golden time:...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
[[1999] 1999]
Language
English
Description
A panoramic chronicle of rural life in the Santa Clara Valley during the decades before World War II. Against the backdrop of millions of fruit trees, the personal dramas of a cast of characters unfolds
A novel on the orchard country of pre-World War II California with its festivals. It follows the lives of a number of families, including that of an American-born Japanese girl as she tries to fit in, unaware of what awaits her.
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