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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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Summary: Soon after her beloved grandmother's death, Trisha's family moves to a diverse California neighborhood where she meets Stewart and his grandmother, Miss Eula, who brings people together to help a grieving neighbor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Polacco 2018Copies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POLYang, 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: Stella gets a chance to audition for her favorite television show when she meets a casting director who thinks she is perfect for the role, so she rehearses her lines until she know the part by heart, but the audition does not go as planned.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SHEYang, Kelly
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 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 YANSmiley, Jane.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SMICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SMISalazar, Aida
Summary: "Lula Viramontes aches to one day become someone whom no one can ignore: a daring ringleader in a Mexican traveling circus. But between working the grape harvest in Delano, California, with her older siblings under dangerous conditions; taking care of her younger siblings and Mamá, who has mysteriously fallen ill; and doing everything she can to avoid Papá's volatile temper, it's hard to hold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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Summary: Ever since the mass shooting at her California high school, junior Morgan Grant has become increasingly agoraphobic until even the idea of stepping outside her door can bring on a panic attack, a situation not made any easier by the fact that her parentsare divorced--but when Evan moves in next door she finds herself attracted to him and begins to find herself longing for the life she has been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2016
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Summary: Brainy twelve-year-old Bart attracts little attention at his new middle school near Hollywood, California, but whenever he can get around his gym-coach father, he secretly hunts electricity-guzzling aliens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PATJones, Kelly (Kelly Anne)
Summary: Twelve-year-old Sophie Brown is finally settling into her new home and her new role as keeper of some highly unusual chickens--chickens with secret superpowers! But the arrival of two new magical chickens for her flock and some unusual eggs to be incubated and hatched (what will their superpowers be?), plus an impending inspection from the Unusual Poultry Committee (who even knew this existed?)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JONOshiro, Mark
Summary: "After eleven-year-old David Bravo wishes for a do-over of a disastrous day of middle school, he and a shapeshifting spirit guide try to right a wrong in his past"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC OSHYang, 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 YANMorgan, Alex (Alexandra Patricia)
Summary: Devin makes friends on her new soccer team and hopes to pull the team together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of Abdo 2022
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Summary: An overprotective mother, an unfriendly older sister, and a friend-stealing school bully are some of the challenges faced by thoughtful ten-year-old Ben Hunter of Filmland, California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Block 2016Cameron, Josephine
Summary: As his family's dog-friendly bed-and-breakfast establishment in dog-friendly Carmelito, California, welcomes celebrity dog Sir Bentley, twelve-year-old Epic McDade and his younger siblings investigate the disappearance of a $500,000 dog collar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2020
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Summary: ESPN baseball analyst and two-time Olympic medalist Jessica Mendoza teams up with her sister Alana Mendoza Dusan in this sweet and hilarious middle-grade novel that celebrates teamwork, family, and softball! This is going to be twelve-year-old Sophia Maria Garcia's best year ever: she's going out for the same softball team on which her high-school softball star sister played at her age, and she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Eight-year-old EllRay Jakes decides to "borrow" his father's crystals to impress his classmates, but his plan to return the crystals before his father notices goes awry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: J Fiction Warner 2011Warner, Sally.
Summary: Eight-year-old EllRay's father has promised a family trip to Disneyland if EllRay can stay out of trouble for a week, but not defending himself against Jared, the class bully, proves to be a real challenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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Summary: Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RYACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC Ryan,Yang, Kelly
Summary: "Mia Tang thinks she's going to have the best year ever. She and her parents are the proud owners of the Calivista Motel, Mia gets to run the front desk with her best friend, Lupe, and she's finally getting somewhere with her writing! But as it turns out, sixth grade is no picnic."--Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "They're called parachutes: teenagers dropped off to live in private homes and study in the United States while their wealthy parents remain in Asia. Claire Wang never thought she'd be one of them, until her parents pluck her from her privileged life in Shanghai and enroll her at a high school in California. Suddenly she finds herself living in a stranger's house, with no one to tell her what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020