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Summary: In 1919, seventeen-year-old Hattie leaves the Montana prairie--and her sweetheart Charlie--to become a female reporter in San Francisco.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LARMcDonald, Megan.
Summary: In 1974, after Julie's parents divorce, she moves to a new San Francisco neighborhood where the school does not have a girls' basketball team, so she fights for the right to play on the boys' team.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2007
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AMEMcDonald, Megan.
Summary: In 1974, after Julie's parents divorce, she moves to a new San Francisco neighborhood where the school does not have a girls' basketball team, so she fights for the right to play on the boys' team.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2007
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MCDKlages, Ellen
Summary: In 1957, inspired by what she is learning about civil rights and armed with knowledge of female ball players, ten-year-old Katy Gordon fights to be allowed to play Little League baseball.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KLAReiss, Kathryn.
Summary: While trying to find a way for her elementary school to help fund the seabird rescue following an oil spill in the San Francisco Bay, Julie investigates the theft of rare guitar. Includes a "Looking Back" essay about benefit concerts in the 1970s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC REIMoyer, Jaime Lee.
Summary: "It is the dawn of a new century in San Francisco and Delia Martin is a wealthy young woman whose life appears ideal. But a dark secret colors her life, for Delia's most loyal companions are ghosts, as she has been gifted (or some would say cursed) with an ability to peer across to the other side.Since the great quake rocked her city in 1906, Delia has been haunted by an avalanche of the dead...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOYMoore, Christopher
Summary: "San Francisco, 1947. Bartender Sammy 'Two Toes' Tiffin and the rest of the Cookie's Coffee Irregulars, a ragtag bunch of working mugs last seen in Noir, are on the hustle: they're trying to open a driving school for Chinatown residents; shanghai an abusive Swedish stevedore; get Mable, the local madam, and her girls to a Christmas party at the State Hospital without alerting the overzealous...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MooreRosen, Lev AC
Summary: "San Francisco, 1952. Detective Evander "Andy" Mills has started a new life for himself as a private detective--but his business hasn't exactly taken off. It turns out that word spreads fast when you have a bad reputation, and no one in the queer community trusts him enough to ask an ex-cop for help. When James, an old flame from the war who had mysteriously disappeared, arrives in his offices...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, Tor Publishing Group 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEKiste, Gwendolyn
Summary: Reluctant Immortals is a historical horror novel that looks at two men of classic literature, Dracula and Mr. Rochester, and the two women who survived them, Bertha and Lucy, who are now undead immortals residing in Los Angeles in 1967 when Dracula and Rochester make a shocking return in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KISMessner, Kate
Summary: This time Ranger, the time-traveling Golden retriever, finds himself in San Francisco in the middle of the great 1906 earthquake, and his mission is obviously to get a young Chinese immigrant, Lily Chen, to safety, but as they make their way through the ruined and burning city Ranger finds that he must also accomplish something else--finding Lily, who was sold as a servant by her parents, a new...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MESBlundell, Judy.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2013
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y DA BLUEdgarian, Carol
Summary: Narrowly surviving the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, a bordello proprietor's daughter bonds with an unlikely new family, from a Chinese clan and an orphan caregiver to tenor Enrico Caruso and tabloid celebrity Alma Spreckels.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDGMeissner, Susan
Summary: "April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEIMcDonald, Megan.
Summary: "What if you suddenly found yourself in Julie's world--sunny San Francisco in the 1970s? Join her on this adventure where the two of you can challenge the boys to a basketball contest, or spend a day at the beach and rescue a baby sea otter. Your journeyback in time can take whatever twists and turns you choose, as you select from a variety of options in this multiple-ending story"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MCDWiles, Deborah
Summary: Molly and her cousin drive cross-country in an old bus, navigating protests, parades, and concerts to notify her conscientious objector brother that he has been drafted into the Vietnam War.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILOtsuka, Julie
Summary: Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OTSMoore, Christopher
Summary: San Francisco, 1947. Bartender Sammy 'Two Toes' Tiffin and the rest of the Cookie's Coffee Irregulars, a ragtag bunch of working mugs last seen in Noir, are on the hustle: they're trying to open a driving school for Chinatown residents; shanghai an abusive Swedish stevedore; get Mable, the local madam, and her girls to a Christmas party at the State Hospital without alerting the overzealous...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MOOCholdenko, Gennifer
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Lizzie and her secret friend Noah, who is hiding in her house, plan to rescue Noah's father from the quarantined Chinatown, and save everyone they love from contracting the plague that is spreading in 1900 San Francisco.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House LLC 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHOOtsuka, Julie
Summary: This is a a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as "picture brides" nearly a century ago. In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the picture brides' extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC OTSMcDonald, Megan.
Summary: After her parents divorce, fun-loving San Francisco girl Julie moves away from her best friend Ivy to start over again in a new house and school. But before long, she learns to create a few changes of her own--from saving endangered eagles to celebrating the U.S. Bicentennial.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD MCDMcDonald, Megan.
Summary: In 1974 at her new San Francisco school, nine-year-old Julie does not want to tell her class about her parents' divorce, or to tell her sister about messing up her school assignment, but when she breaks her finger playing basketball and her whole family rallies around her, she realizes the importance of telling the truth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MCDMcDonald, Megan.
Summary: It's 1976 and the entire country is celebrating America's 200th birthday. Julie joins her cousins on a pioneer-style wagon train in honor of the Bicentennial. The journey is filled with adventures, challenges, and self-discovery as Julie faces her fears to make an important contribution to her country's birthday. The "Looking Back" section provides additional information about Bicentennial...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2007
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AMEMcDonald, Megan.
Summary: In 1974 at her new San Francisco school, nine-year-old Julie does not want to tell her class about her parents' divorce, or to tell her sister about messing up her school assignment, but when she breaks her finger playing basketball and her whole family rallies around her, she realizes the importance of telling the truth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MCDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC McDMcDonald, Megan.
Summary: To celebrate the country's bicentennial, Julie joins her cousins on a pioneer-style wagon train which is filled with adventures, challenges, and self discovery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2007