Smith, D. J., 1955-

The boys of San Joaquin / D. James Smith - New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers , c2005. - 231 p. ; 22 cm.

"A Richard Jackson Book."

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.

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Coming of age---Juvenile fiction
Family life----Juvenile literature
Italian Americans----Fiction
People with disabilities---Fiction

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