Mapson, Jo-Ann.
Summary: SUMMARY: The story of a California family whose patriarch should have died long ago, felled by the family's inherited heart disease which is killing so many younger members. Instead, grandpa lives it up with women who are after his millions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAPPolacco, Patricia
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 POLStegner, Wallace
Summary: Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is the story of four generations in the life of an American family. A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead. The unfolding drama of the story of the American West sets the tone for Stegner's masterpiece. Four generations in the life of an American family are chronicled as retired...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STESmiley, 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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Summary: On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack, when it comes to light that his dam might have been stolen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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Summary: In 1960s California, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt has trouble with True Blue, the newest horse on her family's ranch, a beautiful dappled gray who is so often spooked, Abby wonders if he is haunted by the ghost of his deceased former owner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SMIEngle, Margarita
Summary: Told in alternating voices, determined to make a difference and heal from their troubled pasts, teens Ana and Leandro fight to protect California wildlife and the endangered puma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC ENGVan Draanen, Wendelin
Summary: In 1936, at seven, Ginny Rose and Peggy were best friends, picking peaches on hot summer days. Peggy's family owned the farm, and Ginny Rose's were pickers, escaping the Oklahoma dust storms. Ten years, hard miles, and a world war later, Ginny Rose's family is back in town and their differences feel somehow starker. Especially since Peggy's new best friend, Lisette, is a wealthy banker's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VANSteel, Danielle
Summary: Inheriting a California ranch upon their single father's sudden death, three sisters evaluate their very different childhoods while uncovering paradigm-shifting secrets about their father's identity that strengthen their bond with each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STECushman, Karen
Summary: "Millie McGonigle lives in sunny California, where her days are filled with beach and surf. It should be perfect--but times are tough. Hitler is attacking Europe and it looks like the United States may be going to war. Food is rationed and money is tight.And Millie's sickly little sister gets all the attention and couldn't be more of a pain if she tried. It's a time of sunshine, siblings, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CUSTorres, Jennifer
Summary: Twins Raquel and Lucinda Mendoza used to be inseparable, but since their parents divorced Raquel has become bossy and obsessive, while Lucinda has immersed herself in her ice skating lessons, and the pandemic and its enforced isolation has only made things worse; but then they are sent to their father's ranch in central California and while Raquel thinks that this is a chance to get their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TORYang, Kelly
Summary: When the coronavirus hits Hong Kong, ten-year-old Knox Wei-Evans's mom makes the last-minute decision to move him and his siblings back to California, where they think they will be safe. Suddenly, Knox has two days to prepare for an international move, and for leaving his dad, who has to stay for work. At his new school in California, Knox struggles with being the new kid. His classmates think...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC YANAceves, Aaron H.
Summary: Enrique "Quique" Luna has one goal this summer--get over his crush on Saleem Kanazi by pursuing his other romantic prospects. Never mind that he's only out to his best friend, Fabiola. Never mind that he has absolutely zero game. And definitely forget the fact that good and kind and, not to mention, beautiful Saleem is leaving L.A. for the summer to meet a girl his parents are trying to set him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ACEKlavan, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLAHo, Joanna
Summary: In the year following their son's death, May Chen's parents face racist accusations of putting too much pressure on their son and causing his death by suicide, and May attempts to challenge the racism and ugly stereotypes through her writing, only to realize that she still has a lot to learn and that her actions have consequences for her family as well as herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOSheinmel, Courtney
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: Knox works to keep his family together as they move from Hong Kong back to northern California during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YANNelson, Jandy
Summary: "A story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal told from different points in time, and in separate voices, by artists Jude and her twin brother Noah"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NELSchrempp, Skyler
Summary: "Dust Bowl refugee Gloria Mae Willard finds herself uprooted and working on a California peach orchard, where she tries to join the secret, all-boys baseball team that she's desperate to play on"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022
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Summary: High school senior Frank Li is caught between his parents' traditional expectations and his own Southern California upbringing. His parents have one rule when it comes to romance: 'Date Korean. But Frank falls for Brit Means, who is smart, beautiful-- and white. Joy Song is in a similar predicament, and they make a pact: they'll pretend to date each other in order to gain their freedom. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC YOOPatterson, James
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 PATColbert, Brandy
Summary: "Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her brother Lionel fall in love with the same girl, pushing Lionel's bipolar disorder to spin out of control and forcing Suzette to confront her own demons"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC COLOliver, Lin.
Summary: Once inseparable best friends, thirteen-year-old identical twins Sammie and Charlie begin to grow apart when they make new friends and join different clubs as seventh graders at a brand new school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC OLIOliver, Lin.
Summary: When thirteen-year-old Charlie compromises her values to help Lauren, one of the popular girls, cheat on a test, her identical twin sister, Sammie, is inadvertantly pulled into the mess.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2012