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Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ariana, a tomboy, and her ladylike cousin Laila, recently arrived from Afghanistan, do not get along but they pull together when a rival Afghani grocery store opens, rekindling an old family feud and threatening their family's livelihood.
82) Sabotage season
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Devin and the rest of the team must figure out who is trying to sabotage them before the playoffs start"--
83) Win or lose
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Devin's team thinks she is taking too much credit for their winning streak and she must keep the team together"--
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.
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Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Rafe is invited to attend an all-expenses paid art field trip in California, he jumps at the opportunity, but things go sideways, as they always do for Rafe, after he realizes he'll be participating in a "Cultural Campout" in the desert and a seriesof unfortunate events follow, including an encounter with a cranky crocodile, a claustrophobic trip into an ancient cave, and a plot to smuggle a legendary missing diamond.
87) True blue
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1960s California, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt has trouble with True Blue, the newest horse on her family's ranch, a beautiful dappled gray who is so often spooked, Abby wonders if he is haunted by the ghost of his deceased former owner.
88) Pie in the Sky
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Abby Lovitt is put in charge of training the expensive and haughty horse Pie in the Sky when his owner refuses. While trying to get a hold on him, she must deal with the new challenges, both good and bad, that come with being a freshman in high school in 1970's Northern California"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Lennox Oliver is loving her new life in California. For the first time, she feels normal. She has friends, and a maybe boyfriend and best of all no one knows the truth about her past and what happened to her mom. But everything changes the night after a party when a drive on the supposedly haunted Hicks Road turns deadly and Lennox hits something...or someone. Her friends say it was nothing, at worst, a deer in the road. But Lennox can't shake the...
90) Identical
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Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.
91) Aftershock
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A high school student and her friends are already having a rough day--and then the earthquake hits. Working through personal issues suddenly doesn't seem like such a big deal compared to struggling to stay alive"--
92) Lovetorn
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Having just moved from India to Los Angeles for two years, sixteen-year-old Shalini struggles to fit in at school and to keep house for her clinically-depressed mother, but the real challenge comes when she begins falling in love with an American boy despite being engaged since the age of three. Includes glossary.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In the year following their son's death, May Chen's parents face racist accusations of putting too much pressure on their son and causing his death by suicide, and May attempts to challenge the racism and ugly stereotypes through her writing, only to realize that she still has a lot to learn and that her actions have consequences for her family as well as herself.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Isobel is unhappy about spending the summer of 1918 at her aunt's home in Hollywood with her mother and sister until her cousin, Ranger, involves the girls in creating the perfect film and, when her father returns from the war, his serious injury becomes their inspiration.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Having just moved to California, Syretia's mother enrolls her and her younger brother, Sean, in the only summer camp available: Mars or Bust, which is focusing on the Mars Curiosity rover due to land soon; Sean is thrilled by all things involving space, but eleven-year-old rock enthusiast Syretia is not really interested, until she discovers that the rover will be studying Martian geology--as Syretia's team works on their end-of-camp project, and...
99) Suckerpunch
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Shy, seventeen-year-old Marcus and his sixteen-year-old brother, Enrique, accompanied by two friends, drive from their home in southern California to Monterey to confront the abusive father who walked out a year earlier, and who now wants to return home.
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