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2) Frenzy
Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Xander travels through the portals in the King's strange house to visit Uncle Jesse as a boy, he learns that David has died and determines to do whatever it takes, and visit as many worlds as necessary, to change the future.
3) True blue
Author
Series
Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In 1960s California, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt has trouble with True Blue, whose former owner was killed in a tragic accident, and Abby wonders whether the horse's skittish nature is because he is being haunted by the ghost of his former owner.
Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 1
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Xander and his family move into an old, abandoned house in the middle of a dense forest outside of a small California town, they discover that not only are some of the rooms portals into other places, but that malevolent forces are at work.
5) A good horse
Author
Series
Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt tries to rely on her Christian faith as she faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack.
Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
169 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Devin and the rest of the team must figure out who is trying to sabotage them before the playoffs start"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Annabelle unleashed volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixth-grader Annabelle realizes that she has a crush on Oliver, with whom she is doing a science fair project, just before the Valentine's Day dance--and just before her friend Claire announces her crush on him.
10) Going vintage
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old Mallory learns that her boyfriend, Jeremy, is cheating on her with his cyber "wife," she rebels against technology by following her grandmother's list of goals from 1962, with help from her younger sister, Ginnie.
11) Saving the team
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
169 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After moving to California, seventh-grader Devin is afraid she will not make the soccer team but finds, instead, that the team is so bad that she is compelled to take the lead and turn it into something the players and coach can all be proud of.
12) Cat running
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When eleven-year-old Cat Kinsey builds a secret hideout to escape her unhappy homelife, she slowly gets to know a poor family who have come to California after losing their Texas home to the dust storms of the 1930s.
13) Something blue
Author
Series
Stella Batts volume 6
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Stella and her family drive to Los Angeles to attend her aunt Laura's wedding. Stella is excited to be a flower girl but things don't go as planned. She accidently sprays paint on her aunt's wedding dress and the daughter of the man marrying Aunt Laura wants to run away"--
15) Dogtag summer
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
229 p. ; 21 cm.
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
Annabelle unleashed volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixth-grader Annabelle spends autumn coping with competing groups of friends at school, her mother's pre-wedding stress, learning to get along with a cute stepbrother-to-be, and such momentous events as wearing her first bra and learning to shave her legs.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
The last remaining orange tree on a Southern California street brings together neighbors of all ages as they face their problems and anxieties, including the possibility that a mysterious stranger is a threat to their tree.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
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.
19) One tough chick
Author
Series
Annabelle unleashed volume 4
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the school talent show nears, Annabelle's plan to display her dog training skills goes awry and she's asked to be a student judge instead, which seems perfect until her friends begin asking for special treatment.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
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