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Author
Series
Unusual chickens volume 1
Language
English
Description
Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her brother Lionel fall in love with the same girl, pushing Lionel's bipolar disorder to spin out of control and forcing Suzette to confront her own demons"--
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages [large print] ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Longing for an escape from her extended Filipino family, Lou plans to build a tiny house on land she inherited from her father, but difficulties quickly arise.
6) Parachutes
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
476 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
A wealthy Chinese teen is sent to America on her own to attend private school. Claire is a rich 11th grader in Shanghai; Dani is a scholarship student at a private school in Southern California who helps her mother clean houses. When Claire is parachuted into America to finish high school and Dani's mother needs the income from a boarder, they become unlikely housemates.
Author
Series
I survived volume 20
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of a boy who moves across the country to rural northern California, where his efforts to adjust are challenged by a fast-moving firestorm that places family homes and lives at risk.
Author
Language
English
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Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Identity
Top YA Books of All Time (Time Magazine List)
Identity
Top YA Books of All Time (Time Magazine List)
Description
"High school senior Frank Li takes a risk to go after a girl his parents would never approve of, but his plans will leave him wondering if he ever really understood love--or himself--at all"--
High school senior Frank Li is caught between his parents' traditional expectations and his own Southern California upbringing. His parents have one rule when it comes to romance: 'Date Korean. But Frank falls for Brit Means, who is smart, beautiful-- and white....
10) Identical
Author
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.
11) Odder
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Golden Dome 2023-2024
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominees 2023-24
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominees 2023-24
Description
"Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself--and about the humans who hope to save her"--Provided by publisher.
12) Nexus
Author
Series
Zeroes volume 3
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
483 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After the shocking conclusion to Swarm, the zeroes are scattered, on the run, and desperate. They re up against challenges from within and from the world around them, and one thing is certain an epic showdown is guaranteed.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
437 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Bailey moves to California to live with her father and, perhaps, finally meet an online friend and fellow film buff, but soon finds herself attracted to an annoying co-worker.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dust Bowl refugee Gloria Mae Willard finds herself uprooted and working on a California peach orchard, where she tries to join the secret, all-boys baseball team that she's desperate to play on"--
16) Room to dream
Author
Series
Front desk volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"After years of hard work, Mia Tang finally gets to go on vacation with her family--to China! A total dream come true. Mia can't wait to see all her cousins and grandparents again, especially her cousin Shen. As she roams around Beijing, witnessing some of the big changes China's going through, Mia thinks about the changes in her own life, like . . . 1. Lupe's taking classes at the high school! And Mia's own plans to be a big writer are . . . stuck....
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In a predominately white California beach town, the only two black seventh-graders, Alberta and Edie, find hidden journals that uncover family secrets and speak to race relations in the past.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
At Tegan Sheffield's end-of-summer party, a prank backfires with devastating emotional and criminal results for seventeen-year-old Jessica Healy, her boyfriend Jake, and their best friends.
Jake tells his girlfriend Jessica that they have to go to Tegan's end-of-summer party in their tiny California beach town. Something happens at the party-- something so embarrassing that Jessica doesn't know if she can get over it, and Jake will do whatever it...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Katsuyamas never quit -- but seventeen-year-old CJ doesn't even know where to start. She's never lived up to her mom's type A ambition, and she's perfectly happy just helping her aunt, Hannah, at their family's flower shop. She doesn't buy into Hannah's romantic ideas about flowers and their hidden meanings, but when it comes to arranging the perfect bouquet, CJ discovers a knack she never knew she had. A skill she might even be proud of. Then her...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Thanks to her Ye-Ye's epic scavenger hunts, thirteen-year-old Ruby Chu knows San Francisco like the back of her hand. But after his death, she feels lost, and it seems like everyone--from her best friends to her older sister--is abandoning her. After Ruby gets in major trouble at school, her parents decide she has to spend the summer at a local senior center, with her grandmother, Nai-Nai, and Nai-Nai's friends for company. When a new boy from Ruby's...
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