Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus chronicles the story of an American family against the backdrop of one of the civil rights movement s lesser-known stories. In January 1957, Joseph Spagna and five other young men waited to board a city bus called the Sunnyland in Tallahassee, Florida. Their plan was simple but dangerous: ride the bus together three blacks and three whites get arrested, and take their case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Fifty years later Ana Maria Spagna sets off on a journey to understand what happened and why.Spagna travels from her remote mountain home in the Pacific...
Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus chronicles the story of an American family against the backdrop of one of the civil rights movement s lesser-kno...
For most of the past century, Humbug Valley, a forest-hemmed meadow sacred to the Mountain Maidu tribe, was in the grip of a utility company. Washington's White Salmon River was saddled with a fish-obstructing, inefficient dam, and the Timbisha Shoshone Homeland was unacknowledged within the boundaries of Death Valley National Park.
Until people decided to reclaim them.
In Reclaimers, Ana Maria Spagna drives an aging Buick up and down the long strip of West Coast mountain ranges--the Panamints, the Sierras, the Cascades--and alongside rivers to meet the people, many of...
For most of the past century, Humbug Valley, a forest-hemmed meadow sacred to the Mountain Maidu tribe, was in the grip of a utility company. Washi...
"Readers are along for the ride as Charlotte gets to know the complex, surprising people surrounding her--and the true meaning of that lucky scar on her father's face. Think Carl Hiaasen's Hoot meets Jerry Spinelli's Stargirl." --SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL "The Luckiest Scar on Earth is a thoughtful novel that centers around the maturation of both a girl and her family, and which intimates that sometimes the most difficult periods can also be the most beautiful." --FOREWORD REVIEWS "This coming-of-age story will appeal to extreme...
"Readers are along for the ride as Charlotte gets to know the complex, surprising people surrounding her--and the true meaning of that lucky scar on h...
For most of the past century, Humbug Valley, a forest-hemmed meadow sacred to the Mountain Maidu tribe, was in the grip of a utility company. Washington's White Salmon River was saddled with a fish-obstructing, inefficient dam, and the Timbisha Shoshone Homeland was unacknowledged within the boundaries of Death Valley National Park.
Until people decided to reclaim them.
In Reclaimers, Ana Maria Spagna drives an aging Buick up and down the long strip of West Coast mountain ranges--the Panamints, the Sierras, the Cascades--and alongside rivers to meet the people, many of...
For most of the past century, Humbug Valley, a forest-hemmed meadow sacred to the Mountain Maidu tribe, was in the grip of a utility company. Washi...
