Any day with you by Respicio, Mae 

Paperback(Wendy Lamb Books, 2021)

BTSB #: 770601 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.6 MG Lexile: 700 F&P: V

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Family life - California - Los Angeles - Fiction Filipino Americans - Fiction Great-grandfathers - Fiction Motion pictures - Production and direction - Fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) - Fiction

Summary: During the summer before seventh grade, Kaia, who enjoys living in Southern California, visiting the beach with her family, and creating movie make-up effects, makes a film with her friends to win a contest and hopefully prevent her beloved great-grandfather from moving back to the Philippines.

Any day with you by Respicio, Mae 

BTSB Prebound(Wendy Lamb Books, 2020)

BTSB #: 770606 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.6 MG Lexile: 700 F&P: V

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Family life - California - Los Angeles - Fiction Filipino Americans - Fiction Great-grandfathers - Fiction Motion pictures - Production and direction - Fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) - Fiction

Summary: During the summer before seventh grade, Kaia, who enjoys living in Southern California, visiting the beach with her family, and creating movie make-up effects, makes a film with her friends to win a contest and hopefully prevent her beloved great-grandfather from moving back to the Philippines.

Colossus of Roads by Uss, Christina 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2020)

BTSB #: 901185 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Family life - California - Los Angeles - Fiction Traffic congestion - Fiction Motion sickness - Fiction Scouts and scouting - Fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) - Fiction

Summary: Eleven-year-old Rick Rusek, nearly homebound by motion sickness, wants to help his family's catering business by unsnarling Los Angeles traffic, but first he must help a Girl Scout troop with an art project.

For what it's worth by Tashjian, Janet 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2012)

BTSB #: 872588 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.8 MG+RC: 6.4 6-8 Lexile: 920

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Rock music - Fiction Family life - Fiction Teachers - Fiction Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) - Fiction

Summary: Quinn's life is consumed by music & famous musicians who live nearby, but in 1971, his eyes are opened about the Vietnam War.

Kindred [Black Women Writers Series]by Butler, Octavia E. 

Paperback(Beacon Press, 2003)

BTSB #: 178377 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
Lexile: 580

Genres:

Subjects: African American women - Fiction Time travel - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Slaves - Fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) - Fiction Southern States - Fiction

Summary: Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana's life will end.

Land of the cranes by Salazar, Aida 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 774628 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.1 MG F&P: Z

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: Novels in verse Mexicans - United States - Fiction Families - Fiction Immigrants - Fiction Illegal aliens - Fiction Deportation - Fiction Detention of persons - Fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) - Fiction

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 in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp.

My life as a gamer [My life Volume: bk. 5]by Tashjian, Janet 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2015)

BTSB #: 872626 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 5.3 MG RC: 5.5 3-5 Lexile: 850

Genres:

Subjects: Video games - Fiction Tutors and tutoring - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction School stories Family life - California - Los Angeles - Fiction Children's art Los Angeles (Calif.) - Fiction

Summary: Book 5--Derek Fallon gets the chance of a lifetime when he is asked to test software for new video games, but he soon discovers that his dream job isn't all it's cracked up to be.

My life as a joke [My life Volume: bk. 4]by Tashjian, Janet 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2014)

BTSB #: 872630 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 5.2 MG RC: 5.5 3-5 Lexile: 840

Genres:

Subjects: Maturation (Psychology) - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction School stories Family life - California - Los Angeles - Fiction Children's art Los Angeles (Calif.) - Fiction

Summary: Book 4--Derek Fallon discovers all the angst that comes with being twelve--he just wants to feel grown up, but life gets in the way with a series of mishaps that make him look like a baby.

My life as a stuntboy [My life Volume: bk. 2]by Tashjian, Janet 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2011)

BTSB #: 872624 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 5 MG RC: 5.3 3-5 Lexile: 810

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Stunt performers - Fiction Motion pictures - Production and direction - Fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) - Fiction

Summary: Book 2--Derek, 12, has the opportunity to perform stunts in a movie, but complications arise, including his lack of focus on schoolwork.

Search for Baby Ruby by Shreve, Susan 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic, 2015)

BTSB #: 815472 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
Lexile: 780

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Kidnapping - Fiction Infants - Fiction Nieces - Fiction Family problems - Fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Jess O'Fines is resentful that she is expected to watch her baby niece in a Los Angeles hotel room while the rest of her dysfunctional family go off to a wedding rehearsal party -- but when Baby Ruby disappears, Jess is convinced she knows who kidnapped her and is determined to get her back on her own, whatever the danger.

Watch out, Hollywood! : more confessions of a so-called middle child by Lennon, M. T. 

BTSB Prebound(Harper, 2014)

BTSB #: 562978 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 3.6 MG

Genres: Humorous Fiction

Subjects: Fame - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Middle-born children - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction School stories. - Fiction Humorous fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) - Fiction

Summary: The trials and tribulations of twelve-year-old Charlie C. Cooper, reformed bully, gifted hacker, and middle child, continue as Charlie tries to convert her overnight fame into a lucrative role on a television show.