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A Kinsey Millhone mystery. When an extra $5000 shows up in her bank account, Kinsey Millhone puts it down to clerical error. But suddenly the deposit makes sense. It's not a mistake, it's a setup! Kinsey now has a new client: herself. As she unravels the frame, she finds her future tied to one family's secret, hidden for almost 20 years.
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Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, but after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before -- the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals. Bosch brings the...
4) Echo
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Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.
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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Young Adults
Staff Picks 2021-2022
Women's History Month - Young Adults
Staff Picks 2021-2022
Women's History Month - Young Adults
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In San Jose, California, in the 1990s, teenaged Sara keeps a diary of life as an Iranian American and her discovery that she and her family entered as undocumented immigrants.
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Heart of San Francisco volume 1
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Jilted by a fortune hunter, cowgirl Cassidy McClare is a spunky Texas oil heiress without a fortune who would just as soon hogtie a man as look at him. Hoping a summer visit with her wealthy cousins in San Francisco will help her forget her heartache, Cassidy travels west. But no sooner is she settled in beautiful California than Jamie McKenna, a handsome pauper looking to marry well, captures her heart. When Jamie discovers the woman he loves is...
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4th Grade Rocks
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
Social Justice Reading List by BCALA & ALSC (PreK-Gr. 8)
Women's History - Tweens
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
Social Justice Reading List by BCALA & ALSC (PreK-Gr. 8)
Women's History - Tweens
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In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
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EllRay Jakes series volume 1
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Eight-year-old EllRay's father has promised a family trip to Disneyland if EllRay can stay out of trouble for a week, but not defending himself against Jared, the class bully, proves to be a real challenge.
11) The black pearl
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In Baja California, Mexico, sixteen-year-old Ramon is determined to claim the legendary black "Pearl of Heaven" lying at the bottom of the Vermilion Sea, but first he must outwit the notorious, and greatly feared, devil ray, Manta Diablo.
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[2016]
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4th Grade Rocks
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Middle East Book Award - Youth Chapter & Nonfiction
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Middle East Book Award - Youth Chapter & Nonfiction
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"Eleven-year-old Zomorod, originally from Iran, tells her story of growing up Iranian in Southern California during the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis of the late 1970s"--
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When the Depression hits in Cairo, Illinois, and Oscar Ogilvie's father must sell their home and vast model train set-up to look for work in California, eleven-year-old Oscar is left with his dour aunt, where he befriends a mysterious drifter, witnesses a stunning bank robbery, and is suddenly catapulted onto a train that takes him to a different time and place.
14) Bones of a saint
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[2021]
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In 1970s northern California, fifteen-year-old RJ Armante must fight to save himself and his disabled brother from the Blackjacks gang, and free his hometown, Arcangel, from its past.
15) Sylvia & Aki
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[2011]
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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Hispanic Heritage Month - More Tween Titles
Immigrant Heritage Month - Tweens
Hispanic Heritage Month - More Tween Titles
Immigrant Heritage Month - Tweens
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At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.
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Heart of San Francisco volume 3
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English
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When Megan McClare turns to Bram Hughes for support and advice, Bram develops a sudden unwelcome attraction to a girl he had always thought of as a kid sister. He advises forgiveness, but can he forgive himself for pushing the woman he loves into the arms of another man?
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Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 1
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Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt grows up on her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, learning to train the horses her father sells and trying to reconcile her strict religious upbringing with her own ideas about life.
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Twelve-year-old Isobel is unhappy about spending the summer of 1918 at her aunt's home in Hollywood with her mother and sister until her cousin Ranger involves the girls in creating the perfect film and, when her father returns from the war, his serious injury becomes their inspiration.
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[2009]
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In 1955 California, as "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is filmed in their hometown, thirteen-year-old Arnie discovers a real enemy when he and three friends go against a young government agent determined to find communists at a neaby university or on the movie set.
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