Dragonwings by Yep, Laurence 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2007)

BTSB #: P00286 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-13   


Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Father-son relationship - Fiction Chinese Americans - Fiction San Francisco (Calif.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.

Escape from the great earthquake [Ranger in time Volume: 6]by Messner, Kate 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2017)

BTSB #: 639799 Available

Dewey: FAges: 7-10   
AR: 4.3 MG RC: 3.5 3-5 Lexile: 630

Genres: Adventure Fiction Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: Golden retrievers - Fiction Dogs - Fiction Time travel - Fiction San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 - Fiction Chinese Americans - Fiction Adventure fiction San Francisco (Calif.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: #6: This time Ranger, the time-traveling Golden retriever, finds himself in San Francisco in the middle of the great 1906 earthquake, and his mission is obviously to get a young Chinese immigrant, Lily Chen, to safety, but as they make their way through the ruined and burning city Ranger finds that he must also accomplish something else--finding Lily, who was sold as a servant by her parents, a new family who will care for her.

Escape from the great earthquake [Ranger in time Volume: 6]by Messner, Kate 

Paperback(Scholastic Press, 2017)

BTSB #: 639820 Available

Dewey: FAges: 7-10   
AR: 4.3 MG RC: 3.5 3-5 Lexile: 630

Genres: Adventure Fiction Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: Golden retrievers - Fiction Dogs - Fiction Time travel - Fiction San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 - Fiction Chinese Americans - Fiction Adventure fiction San Francisco (Calif.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: #6: This time Ranger, the time-traveling Golden retriever, finds himself in San Francisco in the middle of the great 1906 earthquake, and his mission is obviously to get a young Chinese immigrant, Lily Chen, to safety, but as they make their way through the ruined and burning city Ranger finds that he must also accomplish something else--finding Lily, who was sold as a servant by her parents, a new family who will care for her.

Hattie ever after by Larson, Kirby 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2013)

BTSB #: P02082 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-13   


Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Self-reliance - Fiction Orphans - Fiction Reporters and reporting - Fiction San Francisco (Calif.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In 1919, seventeen-year-old Hattie leaves the Montana prairie--and her sweetheart Charlie--to become a female reporter in San Francisco.

Hitch at the Fairmont by Averbeck, Jim 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2014)

BTSB #: 076838 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.9 MG RC: 4.3 3-5 Lexile: 690

Genres: Mystery Fiction Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Hitchcock, Alfred,|d1899-1980 - Fiction Fairmont Hotel (San Francisco, Calif.) - Fiction Mystery fiction Adventure fiction San Francisco (Calif.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: When his aunt is kidnapped, an eleven-year-old boy staying at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel in 1956 tries to find her, with the help of Alfred Hitchcock.

Lily and the great quake : a San Francisco earthquake survival story [Girls Survive]by Bybee, Veeda 

Paperback(Stone Arch, 2020)

BTSB #: 180021 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 3.9 MG Lexile: 580

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 - Fiction Chinese Americans - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Prejudices - Fiction San Francisco (Calif.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: Just turned twelve, Lily is the oldest of the three children in her Chinese American family living in San Francisco when the 1906 earthquake hits. Her family has survived the quake, but as the city starts to burn Lily and her younger brother are separated from the others and must get to the safety of Oakland across the bay and hope that the rest of their family and friends are there waiting for them. Between the fire and the anti-Chinese violence it is not certain that any of them will survive.