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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