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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Half-Navajo, half-white sisters Tess and Gaby are separated when Gaby drops out of college to join the army. Now as Gaby is deployed to Iraq, she asks Tess to care for Blue, the spirited horse that Tess dislikes. Tess struggles with her identity and with missing her sister, and she decides to spend the summer with her grandmother at sheep camp where tragedy strikes.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 52
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
On a camping trip to Arizona with their grandfather, the Alden children search for a lost gold mine.
Author
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
When her mother takes a job on a guest ranch in Arizona, twelve-year-old Leeann hopes to be able to ride whenever she wants, but it takes her own perseverance and the help of new friends, including the mother of a handicapped child, to win over the ranch's crusty wrangler.
4) Stargirl
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Series
Language
English
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Description
In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Having each been awarded a Fellowship for Alien Detection (a grant from a mysterious foundation dedicated to proving aliens exist), Haley and Doger and their families set off on a cross-country road trip to prove aliens exist --but someone ... or something ... is doing everything in its power to make sure they never reach the vanished town of Juliette, AZ.
Author
Series
Pretty crooked trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
High school sophomore Willa and her artist mother move to Arizona where Willa starts attending an elite prep school after her mother finally sells some paintings, and Willa attempts to even things out by stealing from the rich students and giving to the poor ones.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Overburdened by his parents' bickering and a bully's attacks, fifteen-year-old Lucky Linderman begins dreaming of being with his grandfather, who went missing during the Vietnam War, but during a visit to Arizona, his aunt and uncle and their beautiful neighbor, Ginny, help him find a new perspective.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Nowhere, Arizona, the least livable town in the United States. For Gus, a bright 13-year-old with dreams of getting out and going to college, life there is made even worse by Bo Taylor, Nowhere's biggest, baddest bully. When Bo tries to force Gus to eat a dangerously spiny cactus, Rossi Scott, one of the best racers in Nowhere, comes to his rescue--but in return she has to give Bo her prized dirt bike"--
Author
Series
Paola Santiago volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
In Silver Springs, Arizona, her mother's stories of the monstrous La Llorona are thrilling but unbelievable to science-loving Paola until she and her best friends Dante and Emma take a walk through a cactus field near the Gila River.
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