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Author
Series
The Brixton Brothers volume 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Steve Brixton finds himself pulled back into sleuthing when, during a train trip down the California coast, he uncovers a mystery involving a fleet of priceless automobiles, an assassin, and a private rail car.
42) See Jane run
Author
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
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On her sixteenth birthday, Sky and River, the boy with whom she has shared Island since she was a toddler, are "rescued" and taken to California, where Sky is separated from River, forced to live with a grandmother she has just met, and learn new rules for survival.
44) Wild dreamers
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating voices, determined to make a difference and heal from their troubled pasts, teens Ana and Leandro fight to protect California wildlife and the endangered puma.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
As his family's dog-friendly bed-and-breakfast establishment in dog-friendly Carmelito, California, welcomes celebrity dog Sir Bentley, twelve-year-old Epic McDade and his younger siblings investigate the disappearance of a $500,000 dog collar.
46) Awesome Blossom
Author
Series
Flower power books volume 4
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grade best friends Katie-Rose, Milla, Yasaman, and Violet are determined to save a new student from Modessa's evil influence, but Katie-Rose is busy not flirting with Preston and all four are distracted by trying to organize Yasamin's sister's birthday party.
47) Lion: Bk. 2
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Betrayed by his uncle, Dr. V., Ryan must rely on his friends to help him recover and rebuild his life but Dr. V's confederates think the four friends still know too much and follow them to California to silence them.
48) Shaken up
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
A California earthquake is just the first in a series of chain of events that shakes Devin's confidence: she fails a test in a subject she knows well, her crush seems to have his attention on another girl, and worst of all, her soccer game is off, so now Devin, the girl who usually inspires confidence in her friends and teammates, will have to turn to them for support.
49) Second star
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Wendy Darling sets out to find her missing surfer brothers and finds herself on a secluded California beach, where she meets Pete, Belle, Jas, and others, learns to surf, helps some of them steal while avoiding the other's drug trade, and falls in love.
50) Dogtag summer
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1980 before she starts junior high school in Santa Rosa, California, Tracy, who was adopted from Vietnam when she was six years old, finds an old ammo box with a dog tag and picture that bring up painful memories for both her Vietnam-veteran father and her.
Author
Series
Flower power books volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Fifth-graders Katie-Rose, Violet, Milla, and Yasaman seem to have little in common except their flower-related names, but they nurture their new friendship through a social-networking site and a campaign to have healthier snacks served at school.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
After their friendship breakup, Jana and Maddy find themselves stuck together on the way to an outdoor music festival where they must navigate stolen phones and missing friends, scale Ferris wheels and crash parties, all the while trying to find their way home — and back to each other.
53) Pretty sly
Author
Series
Pretty crooked trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Willa takes to the road with Aidan in a stolen car after her artist mother disappears, heading for the Santa Barbara, California, hotel from which her mother sent an email, but soon they are the targets of a nationwide manhunt.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Mental Health Awareness JF/MID/YA
If You Like Dork Diaries, Read These!
Mental Health Awareness JF/MID/YA
Description
Doreen has vowed to make her new middle school work for her, but it is still a challenge given her ADHD, her younger sister's growing popularity, and tensions between her parents Good thing Doreen has her doodle journal!
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 23
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Dawn enjoys her visit to California so much that she considers staying there with her father, as her brother, Jeff, has done.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Carter Moon is expecting to spend a quiet summer working in her parents' restaurant and hanging out with her best friends Alien Drake and Chloe--but when a Hollywood company arrives to film a movie, her sleepy California town is suddenly transformed, and Carter finds herself playing an unexpected part in it all.
57) Starry eyes
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
When teens Zorie and Lennon, a former couple, are stranded in the California wilderness together, they must put aside their differences, and come to terms with lingering romantic feelings, in order to survive.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: From the author of the New York Times bestselling My Dearest Darkest comes another incredible Sapphic horror. When four best friends with a hunger for human flesh attend a music festival in the desert they discover a murderous plot to expose and vilify the girls and everyone like them.
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