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1) Three keys
Author
Series
Front desk volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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2020-2021 Middle School TAB Nominations
2020-2021 Middle School TAB Nominations E-Books and E-Audiobooks
2021 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 5 & 6
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2020-2021 Middle School TAB Nominations E-Books and E-Audiobooks
2021 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 5 & 6
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Description
"Mia Tang thinks she's going to have the best year ever. She and her parents are the proud owners of the Calivista Motel, Mia gets to run the front desk with her best friend, Lupe, and she's finally getting somewhere with her writing! But as it turns out, sixth grade is no picnic."--Provided by publisher.
2) Front desk
Author
Series
Front desk volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Historical [Middle School Readers]
31 Days of APAHM Reads
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Elementary
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31 Days of APAHM Reads
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Elementary
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Description
Mia Tang has a lot of secrets. Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests. Number 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner, Mr. Yao, finds out they've been letting them stay in the empty rooms for free, the Tangs will be doomed. Number 3: She wants to be a writer. But how can she...
3) Key player
Author
Series
Front desk volume 4
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Titles Worth Trying: Historical Fiction [Grades 3-5]
Titles Worth Trying: Sports [Grades 3-5]
Titles Worth Trying: Sports [Middle School]
Titles Worth Trying: Sports [Grades 3-5]
Titles Worth Trying: Sports [Middle School]
Description
"Mia Tang is going for the goal in the fourth Front Desk novel by New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang! The Women's World Cup coming to Southern California, everyone is soccer-crazy -- especially Mia Tang! The U.S. is playing China in the finals, and Mia feels like her two identities are finally coming together. Less exciting, though? The fact that her P.E. teacher wants Mia to get out of the soccer field, too -- or fall short of the grade...
Author
Series
Front desk volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"After years of hard work, Mia Tang finally gets to go on vacation with her family--to China! A total dream come true. Mia can't wait to see all her cousins and grandparents again, especially her cousin Shen. As she roams around Beijing, witnessing some of the big changes China's going through, Mia thinks about the changes in her own life, like . . . 1. Lupe's taking classes at the high school! And Mia's own plans to be a big writer are . . . stuck....
Author
Language
English
Description
Worlds apart in their high school hierarchy, Serene and Lian Chen find refuge in one another.
Serene dreams of making couture dresses even more stunning than her mom's, but for now she's an intern at her mom's fashion label. When her mom receives a sudden diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, all that changes. Serene has to take over her mother's business overnight, dealing with ruthless investors who do not think a seventeen-year-old can run a fashion...
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Historical [Middle School Readers]
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Elementary
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Middle Grade
TAB 2017 Picks
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Elementary
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Middle Grade
TAB 2017 Picks
Formats
Description
"Eleven-year-old Zomorod, originally from Iran, tells her story of growing up Iranian in Southern California during the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis of the late 1970s"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Alder has always lived in his cozy little house in Southern California. An old, reliable, comforting walnut tree has stood between his house and the one next door. When a new family--with a particularly annoying girl his age named Oak--moves into the neighboring house, they cut the tree down. As Oak and Alder start school together, they can't imagine ever becoming friends. But they soon discover a series of mysterious, possibly magical, connections...
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2021 Graded Reading Lists: Grade 4
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Elementary
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Middle Grade
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Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Elementary
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Middle Grade
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Description
When eleven-year-old Yumi Chung stumbles into a kids' comedy camp she is mistaken for another student, so she decides to play the part.
9) Out of reach
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Accompanied by her brother's friend, Tyler, sixteen-year-old Rachel ventures through San Diego and nearby areas seeking her brother, eighteen-year-old Micah, a methamphetamine addict who ran away from home.
10) All my friends
Author
Series
Eagle Rock trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When Fancy Pink is offered a record deal their parents say no, so they decide to make an album on their own, if they can raise enough money without raising their parents' suspicions.
11) Lies I told
Author
Series
Lies I told volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Since Grace was adopted by the Fontaines, she's been carefully taught the art of the scam and has an uncanny ability to create a personality to help her "parents," but their latest job has her questioning everything she's been taught and the family she's grown to love.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Description
Tina Malhotra, a sophomore at the Yarborough Academy in Southern California, creates an existential diary for an honors English assignment in which she tries to determine who she is and where she fits in.
Author
Series
DIMILY trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Eden Monro came to California for a summer of sun, sand and celebrities what better way to forget about the drama back home? Until she meets her new family of strangers: a dad she hasn't seen in three years, a stepmonster and three stepbrothers. Eden gets her own room in her dad's fancy house in Santa Monica. A room right next door to her oldest stepbrother, Tyler Bruce. Whom she cannot stand. He's got angry green eyes and ego bigger than a Beverly...
14) Poppy
Author
Series
American dog volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Poppy is a dog with a problem. She has too much energy, and her elderly owner can keep her only if she can be trained. When twelve-year-old Hannah moves to the coast of Northern California, she thinks she can help turn this rambunctious puppy into the good dog she knows Poppy is. But Hannah realizes Poppy’s reputation as a pit bull means she has to work even harder to prove that Poppy and dogs like her deserve a second chance. Will Hannah train...
15) All together now
Author
Series
Eagle Rock trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When her band's drummer and fellow guitarist start dating, life gets awkward for eighth-grader Bina, a talented musician and songwriter, whose discomfort only multiplies when her best friend Austin develops a crush on her.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Reiko loves the endless sky and electric colors of the Californian desert. It is a refuge from an increasingly claustrophobic life of family pressures and her own secrets. Then she meets Seth, a boy who shares a love of the desert and her yearning for a different kind of life. But Reiko and Seth both want something the other can't give them. As summer ends, things begin to fall apart. But the end of love can sometimes be the beginning of you... --...
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