New Releases by Patricia Beatty

Jesse, a mute, homeless, young shepherd of the Holy Land, joins a traveling circus where he is placed in charge of a performing donkey, Belshazzar. During their travels the donkey is sold, and the story tells of how they come together again in Bethlehem during the first Christmas, when the donkey played an important role in the life of the Holy Family.

A Labrador dog, separated from his owners, is taken by Indians who want him to fight other dogs. When the dog refuses, he is adopted by a boy who loves him but trouble for both the dog and the boy ensue.

In the village of Kenekomitt (now La Push), near the northwest corner of the Olympic Peninsula, Ku-de, a Quileute Indian boy, his friend Akil, his uncle Kayad, and the old canoe maker Haba, set out to build a canoe.

To help her poverty-stricken family, thirteen-year-old Lupita enters California as an illegal alien and starts to work while constantly on the watch for "la migra."