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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1849, a twelve-year-old girl who calls herself Lucy is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town, where Lucy helps run a rough boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way to get "home."
Author
Series
Stella Batts volume 2
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
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.
3) Mayhem
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1987, when sixteen-year-old Mayhem and her mother leave her abusive stepfather and return to Santa Maria, California, May learns she is heir to magical power, destined to stop evildoers.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck?s beautifully rendered depictions of small yet fateful moments that transform ordinary lives, these twelve early stories introduce both the subject and style of artistic expression that recur in the most important works of his career. Each of these self-contained stories is linked to the others by the presence of the Munroes, a family whose misguided behavior and lack of sensitivity precipitate disasters and tragedies....
Author
Language
English
Description
"Bill Blair finds the land by accident, three wooded acres in a rustic community south of San Francisco. The year is 1954, long before anyone will call this area Silicon Valley. Struck by a vision of the family he has yet to create, Bill buys the property on a whim. In Penny Greenway he finds a suitable wife, a woman whose yearning attitude toward life seems compelling and answerable, and they marry and have four children. Yet Penny is a mercurial...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
249 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a medieval princess appears out of a rusty box bought at a yard sale, fourteen-year-old tomboy Casey Peabody and her family are stuck with her royal snobbiness until the young wizard who had trapped her there figures out the spell to send her home.
Author
Series
Wil Hardesty novels volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Boys of San Joaquin volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
234 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The further adventures and misadventures of twelve-year-old Paolo, his six-year-old brother Georgie, and their nine-year-old deaf cousin Billy as they try to find their missing dog, cope with a new paper route, and discover romance in their small California town in 1951.
13) Cat running
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
168 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Cat Kinsey builds a secret hideout to escape her unhappy homelife, she slowly gets to know a poor family who have come to California after losing their Texas home to the dust storms of the 1930s.
Author
Series
Ruby McGavin novels volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 291 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"Ruby never thought she'd return to Cardinal, but she's hoping the place and people who gave her so much can give her brother Nash-who's been drowning in drink in Nashville-the fresh start he so desperately needs. Saddlemaker Lucas McGavin is thrilled that Ruby has come back. He hasn't given up on his love for her, despite the awkward fact that she is his brother's widow, and he's well aware that this may be his last chance to win Ruby's heart. When...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Enrique "Quique" Luna decides to get over his crush on Saleem Kanazi before the end of summer by pursuing other romantic prospects, but he ends up discovering heartfelt truths about friendship, family, and himself.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
211 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
When Ben and Jili Holden must move from Manhattan with their three children back to their small hometown of Palace Valley, California, they are forced to reconcile the parents they've become with the dreams they had, the choices they've made, and a sex life much more down to earth than the epic Ferris wheel tryst of their youth. After reluctantly stepping up to lead his son's Little League team, Ben is challenged to finally come to terms with the...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
225 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1949, thirteen-year-old Francine goes to Catholic school in Los Angeles where she becomes best friends with a girl who questions authority and is frequently punished by the nuns, causing Francine to question her own values.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
528 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a novel destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II about the meaning of family and the limitations of the American dream. Rockwell "Rocky" Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch from the LA Water Corporation. It is here where he and his beloved...
20) Frankly In Love
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Language
English
Description
Two friends. One fake dating scheme. What could possibly go wrong? Frank Li has two names. There's Frank Li, his American name. Then there's Sung-Min Li, his Korean name. No one uses his Korean name, not even his parents. Frank barely speaks any Korean. He was born and raised in Southern California. Even so, his parents still expect him to end up with a nice Korean girl--which is a problem, since Frank is finally dating the girl of his dreams: Brit...
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