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1) Front desk
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade...
2) Key player
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mia Tang is going for the goal in the fourth Front Desk novel by New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang! The Women's World Cup coming to Southern California, everyone is soccer-crazy -- especially Mia Tang! The U.S. is playing China in the finals, and Mia feels like her two identities are finally coming together. Less exciting, though? The fact that her P.E. teacher wants Mia to get out of the soccer field, too -- or fall short of the grade...
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
186 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Fancy Pink is offered a record deal their parents say no, so they decide to make an album on their own, if they can raise enough money without raising their parents' suspicions.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
As often as possible high school senior Reiko Smith-Mori drives to the nearby California desert to escape from the increasingly claustrophobic life at home and her parents expectations, and there she meets Seth Rogers, a boy from school who shares her love of the desert but also wants a closer relationship with Reiko, which is just adding to her problems--because Reiko has a secret: in her mind her older sister, Mika, who died years ago, is always...
6) Poppy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the help of a very special pit bull puppy, twelve-year-old Hannah adjusts to moving from Michigan to California and makes friends, despite the birthmark that makes her self-conscious.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
242 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tina Malhotra, a sophomore at the Yarborough Academy in Southern California, creates an existential diary for an honors English assignment in which she tries to determine who she is and where she fits in.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
178 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When her band's drummer and fellow guitarist start dating, life gets awkward for eighth-grader Bina, a talented musician and songwriter, whose discomfort only multiplies when her best friend Austin develops a crush on her.
9) Find Layla
Author
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"SoCal fourteen-year-old Layla Bailey isn't used to being noticed. 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. When Child Protective Services comes to call, Layla loses her family and her home. Now she has to figure out how to stay whole and stand behind the truth she has shown the world"--
Author
Series
Girl of the year 2020 volume 2
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
134 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Joss Kendrick is always looking for new ways to soar. So when her cheer team needs a new flyer, she can't wait to step up (literally). Her high-flying skills on her surfboard and skateboard make her a natural for the role. But when her skateboarding act at the talent show turns into a total catastrophe--make that a dog-tastrophe--Joss loses her confidence all around, even at the cheer gym. A big cheer competition is coming up fast, though, and her...
11) Hostage
Author
Series
Change quartet volume 2
Publisher
Book View Cafe
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A team sent by King Voske captures Ross and takes him to Gold Point. There he meets Kerry, Voske's teenage daughter, who has been trained to be as ruthless as her father. While his friends in Las Anclas desperately try to rescue him, Ross is forced to engage in a battle of wills with the king himself.
12) Joss
Author
Series
Girl of the year. Joss volume 1
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
142 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Excited to enter a surfing video contest, Joss Kendrick asks her brother to help, but he has a price, Joss must try out for the cheer team.
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