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62) Petty crimes
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A collection of short stories about Mexican American youth growing up in California's Central Valley.
Author
Series
In the beautiful country volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"After a rocky first year, Anna's family have settled into life in California--their small restaurant is even turning a profit. Then her parents make a shattering discovery: their visas have expired. Anna's world is quickly overwhelmed by unfamiliar words like "undocumented" and "inequality." She longs to share the towering secret that looms over every aspect of her life with a friend, but her parents strictly forbid her from telling anyone. As Anna...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When sixteen-year-old Mina is forced to take a class to help her decide whether or not to become a vampire like her parents, she also faces a choice between her life-long best friend and the boy she has a crush on versus new friends and possible boyfriends in her mandatory "vampire lessons."
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Santa Barbara, California. Raised by her strict Mexican grandma, Ri Ferǹndez has never been allowed to learn Spanish. She has always been pushed away from the neighborhood they call home and toward her best friend's world of mansions and country clubs in the hopes that it will bring Ri closer to achieving the "American Dream." Her mother disappeared when Ri was young, so when Ri finds an unanswered letter from her mom begging for a visit, Ri decides...
67) My week with him
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Nikki can't wait to leave Texas and follow her dreams of a music career . . . After a painful betrayal by her sister and a heated argument with their mother, Nikki is kicked out and finds herself homeless. She decides to go to California to pursue her singing career. When her best friend, Malachai, discovers her plan to flee Texas, he begs her to spend the remainder of spring break with him. He believes that over the course of a week, he can convince...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Framed for a stranger's near-fatal overdose at a party, blackmailed into finding a mysterious flash drive everyone in school seems anxious to suppress, and pressured by his shady best friend to throw an upcoming game, high school soccer player Charlie Dixon spends a frantic week trying to clear his name, win back the girl of his dreams, and escape a past that may be responsible for all his current problems.
Author
Series
Flower power books volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"The Flower Power girls plot to bring two of their teachers together in a matchmaking scheme at their school's "Kids Night In.""--
70) Lies I told
Author
Series
Lies I told volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
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
I escaped volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"A gripping look at the 2018 California Camp Fire disaster through the eyes of one brave boy"--
73) Win or lose
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"Devin's team thinks she is taking too much credit for their winning streak and she must keep the team together"--
74) Watch over me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
A newly graduated Mila emerges from foster care to accept a job on an isolated Northern California Coast farm where she confronts haunting memories and the traumas of her fellow residents.
Author
Series
Al Capone at Alcatraz volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
"Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, faces new challenges when his father is promoted to Associate Warden"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
The last remaining orange tree on a Southern California street brings together neighbors of all ages as they face their problems and anxieties, including the possibility that a mysterious stranger is a threat to their tree.
77) Riding the Flume
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In 1894, fifteen-year-old Francie determines to fight the lumbermen and protect the largest Sequoia tree ever seen, which had been given to her sister just before her death six years earlier.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When fifteen-year-old Greyson Bennell volunteers to help with the cleanup effort after a massive mudslide devastates his California town, he is not expecting anything but some hard work--but this disaster was caused by a very peculiar storm and he soon realizes that the mud itself is making the other volunteers behave in an ominous manner.