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Author
Series
Almost identical volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Once inseparable best friends, thirteen-year-old identical twins Sammie and Charlie begin to grow apart when they make new friends and join different clubs as seventh graders at a brand new school.
Author
Series
Stella Batts volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When Stella learns that her best friend Willa is moving away, she makes a wish and tries with a magic potion to keep her in Redwood City, California.
Author
Series
Annabelle unleashed volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
Sixth-grader Annabelle spends autumn coping with competing groups of friends at school, her mother's pre-wedding stress, learning to get along with a cute stepbrother-to-be, and such momentous events as wearing her first bra and learning to shave her legs.
Author
Language
English
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Historical Fiction - MID
Historical Fiction- MID/ JF
Staff Recommends- MID/JF
Womens History Month - MID
Historical Fiction- MID/ JF
Staff Recommends- MID/JF
Womens History Month - MID
Description
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
A coming-of-age story that explores culture and family, forgiveness and friendship, and what makes a true home. Perfect for fans of Wendy Mass and Joan Bauer. Lou Bulosan-Nelson has the ultimate summer DIY project. She's going to build her own "tiny house," 100 square feet all her own. She shares a room with her mom in her grandmother's house, and longs for a place where she can escape her crazy but lovable extended Filipino family. Lou enjoys her...
Author
Series
Al Capone at Alcatraz volume 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Description
Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose.
11) Blackwater Creek
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Erika and her family moved from Hungary to California in search of gold, but in 1849, when they have trouble paying their rent, Erica goes to work tending horses for their landlord and forms a bond with one of her charges.
12) Lion Singer
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In long-ago California in the area populated by the various tribes of the Yokuts group, Dog Cry, a young Chukchansi Indian boy, saves his little sister from a mountain lion and gains a new name.
13) Lion: Bk. 2
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Betrayed by his uncle, Dr. V., Ryan must rely on his friends to help him recover and rebuild his life but Dr. V's confederates think the four friends still know too much and follow them to California to silence them.
Author
Series
The Brixton Brothers volume 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Steve Brixton finds himself pulled back into sleuthing when, during a train trip down the California coast, he uncovers a mystery involving a fleet of priceless automobiles, an assassin, and a private rail car.
15) Dogtag summer
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1980 before she starts junior high school in Santa Rosa, California, Tracy, who was adopted from Vietnam when she was six years old, finds an old ammo box with a dog tag and picture that bring up painful memories for both her Vietnam-veteran father and her.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 23
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Dawn enjoys her visit to California so much that she considers staying there with her father, as her brother, Jeff, has done.
18) Smoke: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Colton and his mother move to a farm in California, away from his grandfather and his rodeo-champion father in Idaho, and after his cat Smoke goes missing, Colt feels even more lonely for his old life.
20) New from here
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Knox works to keep his family together as they move from Hong Kong back to northern California during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus.
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