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Summary: Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was anengineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, Scholastic Inc. 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Yang 2018Yang, Kelly
Summary: "Mia Tang is going for the goal in the fourth Front Desk novel by New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang! The Women's World Cup coming to Southern California, everyone is soccer-crazy -- especially Mia Tang! The U.S. is playing China in the finals, and Mia feels like her two identities are finally coming together. Less exciting, though? The fact that her P.E. teacher wants Mia to get out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YANYang, Kelly
Summary: The Women's World Cup coming to Southern California, everyone is soccer-crazy -- especially Mia Tang! The U.S. is playing China in the finals, and Mia feels like her two identities are finally coming together. Less exciting, though? The fact that her P.E. teacher wants Mia to get out of the soccer field, too -- or fall short of the grade she needs to earn a spot at journalism camp. But as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCKYang, Kelly
Summary: "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!...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: As often as possible high school senior Reiko Smith-Mori drives to the nearby California desert to escape from the increasingly claustrophobic life at home and her parents expectations, and there she meets Seth Rogers, a boy from school who shares her love of the desert but also wants a closer relationship with Reiko, which is just adding to her problems--because Reiko has a secret: in her mind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WEBYang, Kelly
Summary: "Mia Tang has a lot of secrets. Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests. Number 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner, Mr. Yao, finds out they've been letting them stay in the empty rooms for free, the Tangs will be doomed....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC YANYang, Kelly
Summary: "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!...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YANMcKevett, G. A.
Summary: P.I. Savannah Reid learns that you can never be too rich, too thin, or too twisted when her boss, the newly svelte actress Dona Papalardo, becomes the target of a very determined killer who is desperate for fifteen minutes of fame.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCKGoldberg, Lee
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLYang, Kelly
Summary: Serene dreams of making couture dresses even more stunning than her mom's, but for now she's an intern at her mom's fashion label. When her mom receives a sudden diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, all that changes. Serene has to take over her mother's business overnight, dealing with ruthless investors who do not think a seventeen-year-old can run a fashion empire, while trying to figure out what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC YANMcKevett, G. A.
Summary: Just when feisty, full-figured Savannah Reid's life seems calm and peaceful, her spoiled, egocentric baby sister comes knocking. Atlanta is determined to become a star, and the Miss Gold Coast Beauty Pageant is her first step. Savannah's alarmed at Atlanta's growing obsession with her appearance. She blames it on the beauty pageant ... where the competition has become so fierce that someone's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCKMcKevett, G. A.
Summary: At first it seems that full-figured model Cait Connor's death is a clear case of dieting run amok. As the new spokesperson for Wentworth's Slenda Flakes, Cait needed to lose thirty pounds in sixty days and ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC McKMcKevett, G. A.
Summary: Obnoxious diet guru Clarissa Jardin reports her womanizing, gambling husband, Bill, missing. When Bill turns up as a frozen corpse with a bullet in his skull, Bill's mother hires Savannah to prove Clarissa killed her son or hired someone to do it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCKMcKevett, G. A.
Summary: When she discovers the body of her opinionated wedding planner face down in the pool, plus-sized P.I. and bride-to-be Savannah Reid must put her impending nuptials on hold to discover who else wanted this diva to make a hasty departure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2012
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Summary: As Halloween approaches, P.I. Savannah Reid finds herself knee-deep in tricks and treats when a member of The Skeleton Key Three, a celebutante clique, goes missing, and the wealthy host of the annual Halloween bash is murdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCKMcKevett, G. A.
Summary: Policewoman Savannah Reid of San Carmelita, California, is fired for being 30 pounds overweight. Which is true, she is overweight, but that is merely a pretext to get rid of her because she fingered the police chief's mistress as a murder suspect. Savannah, however, will get her revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Pub. Corp. 1995
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Summary: When Helene Strauss, the world-famous creator of the Helene doll, has several suspicious brushes with death, PI Savannah Reid is hired to find out who wants Helene dead and discovers that there are more than a few bad apples on Helene's family tree.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCKMcKevett, G. A.
Summary: In a world where stick thin women adorn fashion magazines and silver screens, plus-sized private eye Savannah Reid is grateful for the wild success - and fabulous fashion tips - of full figured model Cait Connor. When Cait is found dead after months of extreme dieting, everyone assumes the risky regimen did her in. But then a second full figured model meets an untimely end, and it's time to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCKMcKevett, G. A.
Summary: When gourmet cook Lady Eleanor, a.k.a. "The Queen of Chocolate," is murdered under the watchful eye of P.I. Savannah Reid, Savannah must sift through a vast array of suspects to catch a killer with a sweet tooth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCKParker, T. Jefferson.
Summary: Living in Orange County, California, in the late 1960s, three brothers pursue leads relevant to their respective careers as a homicide detective, a minister, and a reporter when a woman from a childhood rival family is found murdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARCrais, Robert.
Summary: Jeff Talley, a former LAPD SWAT team negotiator takes a job as a police chief in a small Southern California town after a hostage situation gone bad results in recurring nightmares for him. Now, three smalltime punks go on the run after a grocery store robbery and killing in Talley's town. Soon the deputies have surrounded the house where the inept robbers have taken a man and his two children...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRADuchovny, David
Summary: "A sprawling story about a Mormon homesteading family in Southern California"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUCKashyap, Keshni.
Summary: Tina Malhotra, a sophomore at the Yarborough Academy in Southern California, creates an existential diary for an honors English assignment in which she tries to determine who she is and where she fits in.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012