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Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the daily life of people who settled in the California missions, why the missions were built, and explores the reasons for the end of the mission era.
Author
Publisher
World Almanac Libray
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the arrival of the Spanish in early California, their impact on the native inhabitants, and the founding and construction of missions there to support their claim on the land.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of Father Junipero Serra from his childhood on the Spanish island of Majorca, his duties and travels as a missionary, to his death in 1784 and his legacy of the "Golden Chain" of missions in California.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mitchell Lane Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of the Spanish explorer and missionary who travelled to Mexico and California to teach the Indians about Christianity and who established nine missions along the California coast.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 465 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the intrepid priest who established the eighteenth-century missions of the Catholic Church in California draws on extensive research and original discoveries while discussing Serra's passionate devotion to California's native populations.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
100 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the life story of the intrepid Franciscan missionary and explorer who established the first nine missions in California and devoted his life to working with the Indians.
Author
Publisher
Reprinted and distributed by EZ Nature Books
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Bilingual ed.
Physical Desc
ii, 95 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A bilingual sampler of stories and poems tracing the Hispanic roots of California's mission settlements and ranchos. Based on the authors' Live again our mission past, which serves as teacher's guide.
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