Garland, Sherry <br/><br/>
Valley of the Moon :  The Diary of Maria Rosalia de Milagros. 

 - New York, NY :  Scholastic, Inc,  2001. 
 - 215 
<br/><br/> The 1845-1846 diary of thirteen-year-old Maria, servant to the wealthy Spanish family which took her in when her Indian mother died.  Includes a historical note about the settlement and early history of California. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-439-08820-8 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>California--History 1846-1850--Fiction<br/>Orphans--Fiction<br/>Racially mixed people--Fiction