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41) Cat running
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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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.
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Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save. 1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her mind. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather,...
43) Blue Labyrinth
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 14
Language
English
Description
"A long-buried family secret resurfaces when one of Aloysius Pendergast's most implacable enemies shows up on his doorstep as a murdered corpse. The mystery has all the hallmarks of the perfect murder, save for an enigmatic clue: a piece of turquoise lodged in the stomach of the deceased. The gem leads Pendergast to an abandoned mine on the shore of California's desolate Salton Sea, which in turn propels him on a journey of discovery deep into his...
44) Past tense
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 23
Language
English
Description
"Family secrets come back to haunt Jack Reacher in this electrifying thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child, "a superb craftsman of suspense" (Entertainment Weekly). Jack Reacher has extended his thumb and hit the pavement. His planis to follow the autumn sun on an epic trip across America, from Maine to California. He doesn't get far. On a country road in rural New Hampshire, deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to...
Author
Series
Journals of Corrie Belle Hollister volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Corrie Belle Hollister and her family travel to California in 1852 and settle near Sacramento.
46) The new kid
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When almost-nine-year-old Carson Blum and his father move to Northern California, he is worried about adjusting to his new, large, public school and finding friends.
47) 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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"After Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese, twelve-year-old Tomi and her Japanese-American family are split up and forced to leave their California home to live in internment camps in New Mexico and Colorado"--Provided by the publisher.
49) 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"--
50) Sabotage season
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.
51) Winter moon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Los Angeles police officer Jack McGarvey, badly wounded in a shoot-out, decides to move his family to a Montana ranch that has been willed to him by the father of his former partner, only to have his son Toby become the target of the Givers, creatures from another dimension who want control of the child for their own evil purposes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
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.
53) Mayhem
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
In 1987, when sixteen-year-old Mayhem and her mother leave her abusive stepfather and return to Santa Maria, California, May learns she is heir to magical power, destined to stop evildoers.
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Series
Language
English
Description
When a Manhattan rabbi is brutally murdered, an LAPD officer and his wife begin a dangerous mission to save a young girl from kidnapping — and investigate a deadly new case that puts them both at great peril.
Rina Lazarus has some shocking news for her husband, LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker. A horrible murder has occurred in the family of his half-brother, Rabbi Jonathan Levin. The rabbi's brother-in-law was found slain in a seedy...
Rina Lazarus has some shocking news for her husband, LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker. A horrible murder has occurred in the family of his half-brother, Rabbi Jonathan Levin. The rabbi's brother-in-law was found slain in a seedy...
56) The beast
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Over the years, Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus have got through a lot together. They've faced more than their share of serial killers and psychopaths. But this time two very different cases may cause them to re-evaluate everything they hold dear. One case involves Gabe, the troubled boy they've taken into their home. The other is much stranger - a man is found dead in his apartment, apparently mauled by his pet tiger. There is more to each case than...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mission Beach is starting to feel more like home to Juliet, especially now that she is an official member of the Starry Beach Club (dedicated to making wishes come true), together with her new friends, Emma and Carmen; their current project is saving the local bookmobile which needs rent money, fast, and Emma's idea is to have a fund-raising crafts fair where she expects Juliet to sell her paintings--an idea that Juliet is not really comfortable with....
58) Third strike
Author
Series
Slayer chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Joss is given a mission to eradicate vampires in his home town of Santa Carla, where he will need to protect his family including cousin Henry, who still carries a grudge.
Author
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Past Perfect is a spellbinding story of two families living a hundred years apart who come together in time in a startling moment, opening the door to rare friendship and major events in early-twentieth-century history.
Sybil and Blake Gregory have established a predictable, well-ordered Manhattan life—she as a cutting-edge design authority and museum consultant, he in high-tech investments—raising...
Sybil and Blake Gregory have established a predictable, well-ordered Manhattan life—she as a cutting-edge design authority and museum consultant, he in high-tech investments—raising...
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