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Summary: Eighteen-year-old Spencer Sandoval goes to dangerous lengths to uncover the truth about a fatal car crash and its relation to her school's honor roll.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DE LChen, Jennifer
Summary: After creating an art exhibit inspired by heartbreak, eighteen-year-old Chloe meets Daniel, but Chloe's unresolved feelings and Daniel's fear of being a rebound hinder their romantic prospects and leads Chloe on a journey to rediscover love and prove to Daniel she is ready for a genuine connection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHEKelly, David A. (David Andrew)
Summary: Cousins Kate and Mike visit Kate's father, a baseball scout for the Dodgers, in Los Angeles just as a series of suspicious events lead him to think that someone is trying to steal his scouting reports.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BPM 3Williams, Maiya.
Summary: Moving to Hollywood with his academic parents, eleven-year-old Mitch feels like an outsider in his school where everyone has connections to the powerful and famous in the entertainment industry, until he is cast in a soda commercial that launches a popular catchphrase.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2010
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Summary: "It's 1915, and "missing" heiress Victorine Berryman is living incognito as "Bella Mae Goodwin" with her best friend, Darleen Darling, star of the exciting photoplay serials adventure-loving audiences crave. When the girls travel cross-country to set up roots in Hollywood, California, home of the developing film industry, they find themselves mixed up in a plot as dramatic as anything on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC NESMin, Lio
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Santi Arboleda finally feels settled in his new life in Los Angeles with a growing found family and a relationship with musical prodigy Suwa--until Suwa is offered the chance to step into the spotlight that he has always denied himself and they must finally face their dreams, their pasts, and their futures, whether together or apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MINAdia, Jade
Summary: Rhea and her friends Zeke and Malachi are South L.A. born and raised. The old neighborhood is fading away, and more white people are flocking to this little urban paradise for its cheap rent, transforming the place they call home. When an eviction notice from a greedy landlord threatens to split up the crew, Rhea and her friends use social media to form a fake gang in hopes of scaring off...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ADICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC ADIMcCoy, Mary
Summary: "Over the course of her high school years, awkward Claudia McCarthy finds herself unwittingly drawn into the dark side of her school's student government, with dire consequences"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Lab 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MCCEvans, Karina
Summary: Eleven-year-old Audrey Covington and her grandmother, a former famous actress, have a night out in Hollywood where they break the rules of Audrey's strict parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC EVAConrad, Lauren.
Summary: When nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts is cast in a new reality show, she discovers that the fame and fortune of her new life come at a high price to herself and her friendships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CONSalazar, Aida
Summary: Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SALWinkler, Henry
Summary: Now that Buddy Burger has faced Citizen Cruel and become a fan favorite on his sitcom, will he be able to hide his secret identity from his swarms of fans while also avoiding an evil parrot and the Supreme Leader himself?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC WINRivera, Lilliam
Summary: "Three Latinx teenagers struggle to deal with encounters with an alien, and try to warn the world of the possibility of an alien invasion"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RIVWest, Kasie
Summary: Lacey Barnes has dreamt of being in a movie for as long as she can remember. However, while her dream did include working alongside the hottest actor in Hollywood, it didn't involve having to finish up her senior year of high school at the same time she was getting her big break. Although that is nothing compared to Donavan, the straight-laced student her father hires to tutor her, who is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION WESAmos, Shawn
Summary: Eleven-year-old Ellis discovers family secrets, makes new friends, and adjusts to his parents' recent divorce during a hijinks-filled summer helping his father open the world's first chocolate chip cookie store in 1976 Hollywood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AMOShukairy, Ream
Summary: Told in their separate voices, six Muslim teens are falsely accused of an alleged attack on a Los Angeles beach and must trust or turn their backs on each other to prove their innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Now that Buddy has faced off against Citizen Cruel and become a fan favorite on his Hollywood sitcom, he'll finally catch a break, right? Not likely with the show's big prime-time special coming up and his planet's leader still set on returning Buddy home. Will Buddy be able to hide his secret identity from his swarms of fans while also avoiding an evil parrato and the Supreme Leader...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Summary: "2019. Moud is an out gay teen living in Los Angeles with his distant father, Saeed. When Moud gets the news that his grandfather in Iran is dying, he accompanies his dad to Tehran, where the revelation of family secrets will force Moud into a new understanding of his history, his culture, and himself. 1978. Saeed is an engineering student with a promising future ahead of him in Tehran. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NAZCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NAZColbert, Brandy
Summary: Told from multiple points of view, Ardith and Hollis Blackwood's lives are upended when their great-grandmother, legendary actress Blossom Blackwood, passes away, and family secrets emerge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COLPatterson, James
Summary: As the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic finals near, Jamie faces a whirlwind of attention at school and in the media and the fame starts to go to his head, but in Hollywood with Uncle Frankie, some of his fellow comedians quickly show him what competition and pressure are all about.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PATCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION PATClare, Cassandra
Summary: "Shadowhunter Emma Carstairs and her parabatai Julian Blackthorn race to stop a demonic plot that threatens Los Angeles"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: YA FIC CLACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CLASonneborn, Scott
Summary: Searching in Los Angeles for the descendant of the man whose right eye was used to create his dad, J.D. discovers that the man, Sam Hammer, is a detective on the trail of a werewolf--and finds himself arrested at the request of Frankenstein's daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SONBuxbaum, Julie
Summary: Sixteen-year old Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death, must move from Chicago to "The Valley," with a new stepfamily but no new friends until an anonymous fellow student emails and offers to help her navigate the school's treacherous social waters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION BUXAmes, Ruth.
Summary: Twelve-year-old vampire Ashlee Lambert moves to Los Angeles, and when her classmates at school are being attacked, Ashlee realizes she might not be the only vampire in town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011