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1) Top story
Author
Series
Front desk volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In this fifth book in the series, "Mia Tang is at the top of her game. She's spending winter break with Mom, Lupe, Jason, and Hank in San Francisco's Chinatown. Rich with history and hilarious aunties and uncles, it's the place to find a great story--one she hopes to publish while attending journalism camp at the Tribune. But this trip has as many bumps as the hills of San Francisco"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Adventures of Jo Schmo volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
With her uncle's cape, training from Grandpa Joe, a retired sheriff, and her drooling dog Raymond as her sidekick, fourth-grader Jo Schmo becomes a superhero, catching bank robbers and foiling Dr. Dastardly's plan to take over San Francisco using reanimated dinosaurs.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lizzie and her secret friend Noah, who is hiding in her house, plan to rescue Noah's father from the quarantined Chinatown, and save everyone they love from contracting the plague that is spreading in 1900 San Francisco.
5) The warlock
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Josh has chosen to side neither with his twin sister Sophie nor with the Alchemyst, Nicholas Flamel, but rather to fight alongside Dr. John Dee and the mysterious Virginia Dare, while the immortal Machiavelli and Billy the Kid follow the Elders' plans to set loose the monsters of Alcatraz on San Francisco and trigger the end of the human race.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Aria Tang West was looking forward to a summer on Martha's Vineyard with her best friends--one last round of sand and sun before college. But after a graduation party goes wrong, Aria's parents exile her to California to stay with her grandmother, artist Joan West. Aria expects boredom, but what she finds is Steph Nichols, her grandmother's gardener. Soon, Aria is second-guessing who she is and what she wants to be, and a summer that once seemed lost...
7) Alcatraz
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
With the nation reeling from the recent terrorist attacks, Q and Angela leave Chicago and arrive in San Francisco. Their parents are determined to continue the Match tour but for safety's sake, they have decided to send Q and Angela to boarding school. Not happy at the thought of being taken off the trail of the ghost cell, Q and Angela race against time with Boone and the SOS team to find Number One, the leader of the world's most feared terrorist...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Formats
Description
After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Budding costume designer Lola lives an extraordinary life in San Francisco with her two dads and beloved dog, dating a punk rocker, but when the Bell twins return to the house next door Lola recalls both the friendship-ending fight with Calliope, a figure skater, and the childhood crush she had on Cricket.
10) Golden Gate
Author
Series
City spies volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Rebel surfer-turned-field ops specialist Sydney finds herself in hot water while undercover on a marine research vessel, while her City Spies teammates investigate a suspected mole.
Author
Series
Dragon warrior volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jade Society member Faryn Liu may be destined to command the Jade Emperor's army of demon-fighting dragons, but first she must complete a daring quest across San Francisco's Chinatown before the Lunar New Year.
Author
Series
Adventures of Jo Schmo volume 4
Publisher
Harcourt Childrens Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
118 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourth-grade superhero Jo Schmo and her sidekick Raymond face Dr. Dastardly and Numbskull, who break out of jail and join forces with Pinkbeard's band of time-traveling pirates in an evil revenge plot.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Yuriko, teased at school for her unusual name and Japanese ancestry, yearns to be more ordinary until her father reminds her of how special she is.
15) Homeland
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
396 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
When Marcus, once called M1k3y, receives a thumbdrive containing evidence of corporate and governmental treachery, his job, fame, family, and well-being, as well as his reform-minded employer's election campaign, are all endangered.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Formats
Description
While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Lexile measure
550L
Physical Desc
132 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are enjoying a visit to San Francisco when Holden, their college-age tour guide, is accused of abducting Miss Chinatown from the Chinese New Year parade and stealing her valuable crown.
18) World after
Author
Series
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Penryn's search for her kidnapped sister, Paige, leads her into the heart of the angels' secret plans, while Raffe must choose between reclaiming his wings -- and his role as the angels' leader -- or helping Penryn survive.
19) The waning age
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Determined to rescue her brother from the world's biggest company after they kidnapped him, Natalia finds her mission complicated by a serial predator, a boy who needs help, and the bounty on her head.
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 348 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Xochi's life changed when she became governess to precocious twelve-year-old Pallas, but the duo unintentionally summons a pair of ancient creatures determined to right the wrongs of Xochi's adolescence.
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