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I funny volume 3
Language
English
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As the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic finals near, Jamie faces a whirlwind of attention at school and in the media and the fame starts to go to his head, but in Hollywood with Uncle Frankie, some of his fellow comedians quickly show him what competition and pressure are all about.
4) Trafficked
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A seventeen-year-old Moldovan girl whose parents have been killed is brought to the United States to work as a slave for a family in Los Angeles.
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Derek Fallon books volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Derek Fallon discovers all the angst that comes with being twelve--he just wants to feel grown up, but life gets in the way with a series of mishaps that make him look like a baby"--
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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When Derek Fallon's mother hires John, a UCLA student, as his reading tutor, the two spend their time playing video games instead of studying and soon Derek falls behind on preparations for the big state English test, but with help from his friends and astrict new tutor, he might just pass.
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Series
Pretty Minnie volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Minnie, a long-haired teacup chihuahua, travels to Hollywood with her family, where she gets an unexpected starring role in a movie"--
12) Fenris & Mott
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Mott's life becomes complicated when the abandoned puppy she found turns out to be a mythical Norse wolf who is partly responsible for bringing about the end of the worlds.
Author
Series
Derek Fallon books volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Derek Fallon has the opportunity of a lifetime--to perform stunts in a movie featuring a popular twelve-year-old star--but complications arise involving his best friend, a capuchin monkey, and Derek's chronic inability to concentrate on schoolwork.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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In August 1965, twelve-year-old Eden's older cousin from Mississippi comes to visit her in Los Angeles, and while the Watts Riots erupt around them, they continue their investigation of the disappearance of Winter's father ten years ago.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"During the pilot year of a Los Angeles school system integration program, two sixth grade boys, one black, one white, become best friends as they learn to cope with everything from first crushes and playground politics to the loss of loved ones and racial prejudice in the 1970s"--
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture...
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