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773725
Esperanza rising by Ryan, Pam Munoz 

Paperback(Scholastic Paperbacks, 2002)

BTSB #: 773725 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-14   
AR: 5.3 MG RC: 5.5 6-8 Lexile: 750 F&P: V

Subjects: Mexican Americans - California - Fiction Agricultural laborers - Fiction California - Fiction


Summary: Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth in Mexico to work in the labor camps of California.


6.55 *

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305688
Find Layla : a novel by Elison, Meg 

Paperback(Skyscape, 2020)

BTSB #: 305688 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.2 MG+

Genres: Family Life


Subjects: Poor people - Fiction High school students - Fiction Child abuse - Fiction Bullies - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Social media - Fiction California - Fiction


Summary: Underprivileged and keenly self-aware, SoCal fourteen-year-old Layla Bailey isn't used to being noticed. Except by mean girls who tweet about her ragged appearance. All she wants to do is indulge in her love of science, protect her vulnerable younger brother, and steer clear of her unstable mother. Then a school competition calls for a biome. Layla chooses her own home, a hostile ecosystem of indoor fungi and secret shame. With a borrowed video camera, she captures it all.


8.19 *

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973604
Frankly in love by Yoon, David 

Paperback(Penguin Books, 2020)

BTSB #: 973604 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 4.7 UG Lexile: 660 HL

Genres: Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Friendship - Fiction Dating (Social customs) - Fiction Korean Americans - Fiction Racism - Fiction High schools - Fiction School stories Family life - California - Fiction California - Fiction


Summary: High school senior Frank Li takes a risk to go after a girl his parents would never approve of, but his plans will leave him wondering if he ever really understood love--or himself--at all.


973605
Frankly in love by Yoon, David 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Books, 2020)

BTSB #: 973605 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 4.7 UG Lexile: 660 HL

Genres: Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Friendship - Fiction Dating (Social customs) - Fiction Korean Americans - Fiction Racism - Fiction High schools - Fiction School stories Family life - California - Fiction California - Fiction


Summary: High school senior Frank Li takes a risk to go after a girl his parents would never approve of, but his plans will leave him wondering if he ever really understood love--or himself--at all.


P01523
Frenzy by Liparulo, Robert 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2011)

BTSB #: P01523 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres: Scary/Horror Stories


Subjects: Supernatural - Fiction Houses - Fiction Horror fiction California - Fiction


Summary: When Xander travels through the portals in the King's strange house to visit Uncle Jesse as a boy, he learns that David has died and determines to do whatever it takes, and visit as many worlds as necessary, to change the future.


56.99 *

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P02773
Georges and the Jewels by Smiley, Jane 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2015)

BTSB #: P02773 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   


Genres: Animals


Subjects: Horses - Training - Fiction Ranch life - California - Fiction Christian life - Fiction California - Fiction


Summary: Abby trains horses on the family's California horse ranch in the 1960s while reconciling her religious upbringing with her own ideas about life.


61.74 *

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847080
Grapes of wrath [Penguin Classics]by Steinbeck, John 

Paperback(Penguin, 2006)

BTSB #: 847080 Available

Dewey: FAges: 16-18   
AR: 4.9 UG RC: 7.8 9-12

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life


Subjects: Migrant agricultural laborers - Fiction Rural families - Fiction Great Depression, 1929-1939 - United States - Fiction Labor camps - Fiction California - Fiction


Summary: This powerful social document exemplifies the plight of "Okies" during the 1930s.


14.76 *

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723386
Holes in the sky by Polacco, Patricia 

BTSB Prebound(Putnam, 2018)

BTSB #: 723386 Available

Dewey: EAges: 6-9   
AR: 4.2 LG Lexile: 730

Subjects: Friendship - Fiction Neighborliness - Fiction Gardens - Fiction Loss (Psychology) - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Moving - Fiction Family life - California - Fiction California - Fiction


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.


23.28 *

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P01381
House of dark shadows by Liparulo, Robert 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2011)

BTSB #: P01381 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres: Scary/Horror Stories


Subjects: Houses - Fiction Supernatural - Fiction Horror fiction California - Fiction


Summary: When fifteen-year-old Xander and his family move into an old, abandoned house in the middle of a dense forest outside of a small California town, they discover that not only are some of the rooms portals into other places, but that malevolent forces are at work.


56.99 *

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770616
House that Lou built by Respicio, Mae 

BTSB Prebound(Wendy Lamb Books, 2018)

BTSB #: 770616 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.2 MG RC: 3.8 3-5 Lexile: 660 F&P: V

Genres: Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Bildungsromans Home - Fiction Family life - California - Fiction Filipino Americans - Fiction Building - Fiction Moving - Fiction California - Fiction


Summary: Longing for an escape from her extended Filipino family, Lou plans to build a tiny house on land she inherited from her father, but difficulties quickly arise.


21.88 *

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P00469
Identical by Hopkins, Ellen 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2008)

BTSB #: P00469 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Subjects: Novels in verse Family problems - Fiction Emotional problems - Fiction Secrets - Fiction Sexual abuse victims - Fiction Twins - Fiction Sisters - Fiction California - Fiction


Summary: Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.


42.74 *

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534938
In the beautiful country by Kuo, Jane 

BTSB Prebound(Quill Tree Books, 2022)

BTSB #: 534938 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Family Life Multicultural


Subjects: Novels in verse Immigration and emigration - Fiction Family life - Fiction Schools - Fiction Taiwan - Fiction California - Fiction


Summary: In 1980, ten-year-old Anna and her parents finalize their immigration from Taiwan to California, and as she settles in to her new home, Anna is confronted by the stark difference between her dreams and her reality.


21.88 *

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629471
Indian no more by McManis, Charlene Willing 

BTSB Prebound(Tu Books, 2019)

BTSB #: 629471 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.4 MG RC: 4.4 3-5 Lexile: 720 F&P: W

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Native Americans - North America - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Family life - Fiction Moving - Fiction California - Fiction


Summary: When Regina's Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and her family must relocate from Oregon to Los Angeles, she goes on a quest to understand her identity as an Indian despite being so far from home.


629479
Indian no more by McManis, Charlene Willing 

Publisher Edition - Large Print Hardcover(Thorndike Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 629479 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.4 MG Lexile: 720 F&P: W

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Large print books Native Americans - North America - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Family life - Fiction Moving - Fiction California - Fiction


Summary: When Regina's Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and her family must relocate from Oregon to Los Angeles, she goes on a quest to understand her identity as an Indian despite being so far from home. Large print hardcover format.


23.24 *

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534942
Land of broken promises by Kuo, Jane 

BTSB Prebound(Quill Tree Books, 2023)

BTSB #: 534942 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.2 MG+

Genres: Family Life Multicultural


Subjects: Novels in verse Immigration and emigration - Fiction Family life - Fiction Taiwanese - United States - Fiction California - Fiction


Summary: After a rocky first year, Anna's family have settled into life in California--their small restaurant is even turning a profit. But when their visas expire, Anna grapples with the complexities of being undocumented, the strain that it places on her family, and the loneliness of keeping it all to herself. Companion to In The Beautiful Country.


23.28 *

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226327
Little & Lion by Colbert, Brandy 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2017)

BTSB #: 226327 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.3 UG RC: 6.4 9-12 Lexile: 820 HL

Genres: Family Life


Subjects: Siblings - Fiction Family life - California - Fiction Dating (Social customs) - Fiction Bisexuality - Fiction Manic-depressive illness - Fiction Mental illness - Fiction California - Fiction


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.


22.58 *

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751932
Live in infamy by Richmond, Caroline Tung 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic, 2018)

BTSB #: 751932 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 6.3 UG RC: 5.7 9-12 Lexile: 890

Genres: Adventure Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Resistance to government - Fiction Chinese Americans - Fiction Japanese - Fiction Father-son relationship - Fiction California - Fiction


Summary: It has been eighty years since the Axis won World War II, and America was divided between the victors: the Nazis in the East and Imperial Japan in the West; but now resistance is growing in the Eastern territories and sixteen-year-old Chinese American Ren Cabot, who has every reason to hate the Japanese who executed his mother, finds himself drawn into a resistance group and confronted with choices that could lead to freedom-or death.


6.50 *

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P01606
Lucky breaks by Patron, Susan 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2011)

BTSB #: P01606 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-11   


Genres: Humorous Fiction


Subjects: Friendship - Fiction Interpersonal relations - Fiction Adoption - Fiction California - Fiction


Summary: Having reached the mature age of eleven in the tiny California town of Hard Pan (population 43), Lucky discovers that there is still much to learn about friendship, parental trust, and the Milky Way galaxy.


P01614
Lucky for good by Patron, Susan 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2011)

BTSB #: P01614 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-11   


Genres: Family Life


Subjects: Restaurants - Fiction Interpersonal relations - Fiction Community life - California - Fiction California - Fiction


Summary: The residents of Hard Pan, California, come together to help Brigitte and Lucky when the County Health Department threatens to close down the cafe, and meantime Miles's life is complicated by his mother's return.


091681
Magical imperfect by Baron, Chris 

BTSB Prebound(Feiwel and Friends, 2021)

BTSB #: 091681 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.5 MG+ Lexile: 710

Genres: Family Life


Subjects: Novels in verse Family life - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Jews - Fiction Eczema - Fiction California - Fiction


Summary: Etan has stopped speaking since his mother left. When Etan is asked to deliver a grocery order to the outskirts of town, he realizes he's at the home of Malia Agbayani, also known as the Creature. As the two become friends, other kids tease Etan for knowing the Creature. But he believes he might have a cure for Malia's eczema condition, if only he can convince his family and hers to believe it too.


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