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Author
Series
I survived volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
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
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Twelve-year-old David and his family search for their kidnapped mother in the many different time period portals of their home, but when a stranger appears and tries to force them to sell the house, their desperation reaches new heights.
4) Warp speed
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Marley Sandelski has always felt invisible at school when he is not facing bullies, but a series of unexpected events gives him a taste of popularity and insights into some classmates, well-liked or greatly-feared.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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.
6) Gee Whiz
Author
Series
Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 5
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Soon after her yearling, Jack, begins working with professional trainers at a nearby ranch, Abby Lovitt takes responsibility for a very large, very smart, and very curious retired racehorse named Gee Whiz.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
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.
Author
Series
Get ready for Gabí volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In Northern California, Maritza Gabriela Morales Mercado struggles to deal with the third grade bully, to control her temper, and to remember to speak Spanish at home and English at school.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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.
10) A good horse
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack, when it comes to light that his dam might have been stolen.
11) Martial law
Author
Series
Hardy boys undercover brothers volume 9
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
The Hardy brothers investigate injuries to students at the Rising Phoenix Martial Arts Center to see if they are connected and if someone at the school is to blame.
The Hardy brothers investigate injuries to students at the Rising Phoenix Martial Arts Center to see if they are connected and if someone at the school is to blame. Book #9.
12) Pie in the sky
Author
Series
Publisher
Yearling Book
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Abby Lovitt doesn't realize how unprepared she is when she takes her beloved horse, True Blue, to a clinic led by the most famous equestrian anyone knows. The biggest surprise, though, is that Sophia, the girl who never makes a mistake, suddenly makes so many that she stops riding. Who will ride her horse? Abby's dad seems to think it will be Abby. Pie in the Sky is the most expensive horse Abby has ever ridden. But he is proud and irritable, and...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Unhappy after his parents move to a weird subdivision and become workaholics, thirteen-year-old Travis returns to his old Salinas neighborhood and becomes actively involved in saving the John Steinbeck Library and, at the same time, begins seeing characters from Steinbeck's books who seem to have a message for him.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"After eleven-year-old David Bravo wishes for a do-over of a disastrous day of middle school, he and a shapeshifting spirit guide try to right a wrong in his past"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
It is 1906, and when her family is cheated out of their tavern, fourteen-year-old Minnie Bonner is forced to become a maid to the Sump family, who are moving to San Francisco--three weeks before the great earthquake.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Millie McGonigle lives in sunny California, where her days are filled with beach and surf. It should be perfect--but times are tough. Hitler is attacking Europe and it looks like the United States may be going to war. Food is rationed and money is tight. And Millie's sickly little sister gets all the attention and couldn't be more of a pain if she tried. It's a time of sunshine, siblings, and stress. Will Millie be able to find her way in her family,...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
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...
20) Odder
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Appears on list
Description
Meet Odder, the Queen of Play: Nobody has her moves. She doesn't just swim to the bottom, she dive-bombs. She doesn't just somersault, she triple-doughnuts. She doesn't just ride the waves, she makes them. 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...
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