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1) Roomies
Author
Language
English
Description
While living very different lives on opposite coasts, seventeen-year-old Elizabeth and eighteen-year-old Lauren become acquainted by email the summer before they begin rooming together as freshmen at UC-Berkeley.
Author
Series
EllRay Jakes series volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eight-year-old EllRay's father has promised a family trip to Disneyland if EllRay can stay out of trouble for a week, but not defending himself against Jared, the class bully, proves to be a real challenge.
Author
Language
English
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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.
6) Win or lose
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
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
Unbelievably boring Bart volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Brainy twelve-year-old Bart attracts little attention at his new middle school near Hollywood, California, but whenever he can get around his gym-coach father, he secretly hunts electricity-guzzling aliens.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Sixteen-year-old San Franciscan Lucy Beck-Moreau once had a promising future as a concert pianist. Her chance at a career has passed, and she decides to help her ten-year-old piano prodigy brother, Gus, map out his own future, even as she explores why she enjoyed piano in the first place."--
10) Aftershocks
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a major earthquake hits California, trapping seventeen-year-old Ruby with Charlie, a near-stranger, in a laundromat, they struggle to stay alive and hopeful with only memories and each other's voices to sustain them.
When a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hits California, Ruby is trapped in a laundromat with Charlie, a boy she met only moments before. She can't see anything beyond the rubble that she's trapped beneath, but she's sure someone will come...
11) True blue
Author
Series
Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011.
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.
12) Saving the team
Author
Series
The kicks volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After moving to California, seventh-grader Devin is afraid she will not make the soccer team but finds, instead, a team is so bad that she is compelled to take the lead and turn it into something the players and coach can all be proud of.
13) See Jane run
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Riley Spencer never thought twice about keeping secrets from her parents, but when she finds a birth certificate with the name Jane O'Callahan hidden in her baby book, she must consider that her parents are lying to her.
Author
Series
Stella Batts volume 4
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
""Everyone is invited to a birthday party at her parent's candy store, except Stella Batts. She needs to figure out to be a pleasant hostess when she's not on the guest list"--
15) Gee Whiz
Author
Series
Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 5
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Soon after her yearling, Jack, begins working with professional trainers at a nearby ranch, Abby Lovitt takes responsibility for a very large, very smart, and very curious retired racehorse named Gee Whiz.
Author
Series
Stella Batts volume 2
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
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.
17) Underwater
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
Ever since the mass shooting at her California high school, junior Morgan Grant has become increasingly agoraphobic until even the idea of stepping outside her door can bring on a panic attack, a situation not made any easier by the fact that her parents are divorced--but when Evan moves in next door she finds herself attracted to him and begins to find herself longing for the life she has been missing.
18) Nacer bailando
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
When Margie's cousin Lupe comes from Mexico to live in California with Margie's family, Lupe must adapt to America, while Margie, who thought it would be fun to have her cousin there, finds that she is embarrassed by her in school and jealous of her at home.
Author
Series
EllRay Jakes series volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old EllRay Jakes decides to "borrow" his father's crystals to impress his classmates, but his plan to return the crystals before his father notices goes awry.
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