California Collection - Braille Institute of America

The Happy Birthday Present BRB-09074
by Joan Heilbroner
A book about a child's birthday party. For grades K-3. 1962.
Happy Birthday Samantha BRB-11553
by Valerie Tripp
Celebrate a birthday party in 1904 with Samantha and her grandmother.
Part of the “American Girls Series.” For grades 2-4. 1997.
Hard Light CBB-1556
by Wendy Hornsby
Filmmaker Maggie MacGowen has looked through the lens of her
video camera at the mean streets of Los Angeles, but it has proved to be
more difficult to take a hard look inside her own heart. Maggie helps a
beautiful Vietnamese expatriate named Khahn Nguyen who asks for
help in finding a man. Maggie assists her but gets closer to a truth she
would rather not know. 1997.
Hardscrabble: A Narrative of the California Hill Country
BRB-10823
by Anita Vivian Kunkler (Edited with commentaries by Shepperson)
This autobiography of the first 18 years in the life of Anita Vivian
Kunkler is set in the mountains of Shasta County, California but carries
the traditions of the Aldridge family across the United States from the
hills of 18th century North Carolina. 1975.
Harry's Mad BRB-11508
by Dick King-Smith
Young Briton, Harry Holdsworth, is sorely disappointed to learn that
his inheritance from his unknown American great-uncle is a
forty-year-old parrot named Madison (Mad for short). But Mad is a
gourmet cook, is great at Monopoly and crossword puzzles, helps
Harry with his homework, and does a perfect imitation of Humphrey
Bogart to keep the cat in line. For grades 3-6. 1997.
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