Provides an introduction to the life and biography of Junipero Serra, the Spanish explorer and missionary who established nine missions along the California coast.

Traces the life of Father Junípero 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.

A short biography of the life and accomplishments of Father Junipero Serra. For approximately grades 4-6.

Note that there are many editions in the library if this one is not available. This edition is accessible to children, with illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. This is a classic historical fiction on Ramona, fictional love story of a beautiful, illegitimate Scots-Indian orphan and the handsome and courageous Indian Alessandro. Ramona has grown up a privileged, adopted child, unaware of her ancestry. When she chooses Alessandro, she becomes Indian. Persecuted and betrayed by individuals and the government, Ramona and Alessandro struggle and flee. Ramona is considered one of the great propaganda novels of the nineteenth century. Takes place in California.

Sad when the swallows leave for the winter, young Juan prepares to welcome them back to the old California Mission at San Juan Capistrano on St. Joseph's Day the next spring.

A young Indian girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her aunt Karana whose story was told in "Island of the Blue Dolphins."