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California San Francisco Divorce Juvenile fiction Earthquakes Fires Private investigators California San Francisco Fiction San Francisco (Calif.) History 20th century San Francisco (Calif.) History 20th century Fiction San Francisco (Calif.) History 20th century Juvenile fiction San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 Women's rights FictionMcDonald, 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 MCDRingstad, Arnold
Summary: Gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the building of the Golden Gate Bridge. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World, Inc. 2017
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 609 RINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J609 MOMScott, Mairghread
Summary: Isabel has been sheltered in a high-society world. All that changes, when she breaches an invisible barrier, and steps into a magical and dangerous city where war rages between the fairies of the Seelie and Unseelie Courts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2018
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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 LARChippendale, Lisa A.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.461 CHIMcDonald, 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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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 MCDMessner, 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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1 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
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y DA BLUReiss, 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 REIJarrow, Gail
Summary: Traces the efforts of doctors to halt the spread of the plague during the 1900 outbreak in San Francisco, discussing how political leaders tried to keep the epidemic from being publicized and the scientists working to unlock the secrets of the disease.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 616 JARKlages, 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 KLAGuthrie, Julian.
Summary: Documents the mysterious 1993 archdiocese decision to close St. Brigid Church in San Francisco, tracing how the efforts of a ragtag group of faithful people to save their beloved landmark revealed how the Catholic Church was hiding a devastating secret.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282.7946 GUTSexton, Margaret Wilkerson
Summary: At home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations. Ruth, Esther, and Chloe have been singing and dancing in harmony since they could speak. Thanks to the rigorous direction of their mother, Vivian, they've become a bona fide girl group whose shows are the talk of the Jazz-era Fillmore. Now Vivian has scored a once-in-a-lifetime offer from a talent manager, who promises to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SEXMuller, Marcia
Summary: Conducting a dual investigation in the opium dens of Chinatown, Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon search for missing millionaires against a backdrop of a brewing Tong war.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MULCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS MULMuller, Marcia.
Summary: In 1890s San Francisco, former Pinkerton operative Sabina Carpenter and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent John Quincannon, tackle two seemingly unrelated cases that are complicated by two murders and the interference of Sherlock Holmes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MULJones, Cleve
Summary: A longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist offes an account of his life from sexually liberated 1970s San Francisco, through the AIDS crisis, and up to his present-day involvement with the marriage equality battle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JONES, CLEVE JONMoore, 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 MooreCollins, Ailynn
Summary: "The date is April 18, 1906. The city of San Francisco has just been rocked and shaken by a huge earthquake. Even worse, the quake causes huge fires to break out across the city. Can you escape your damaged home before it collapses? Will you join the firefighters as they try to save the city from the devastating fires? Will you be accused of looting after helping a boy escape from some rubble?...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022
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Summary: Traces the story of San Francisco in the latter half of the twentieth century, covering topics ranging from the civil rights movement and pop culture to the 49ers and famous crime cases.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.09794 TALDavenport, Matthew J.
Summary: "Matthew J. Davenport's The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, and how a great earthquake sparked a devastating and preventable firestorm. At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, catching most of the city asleep. For approximately one minute, shockwaves buckled streets, shattered water mains,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group 2023
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 979.461 KURRosen, 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
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSMcDonald, 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