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22) The waning age
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Determined to rescue her brother from the world's biggest company after they kidnapped him, Natalia finds her mission complicated by a serial predator, a boy who needs help, and the bounty on her head.
The time is now. The place is San Francisco. The world is filled with adults devoid of emotion and children on the cusp of losing their feelings--of "waning"--when they reach their teens. Natalia Pęa has already waned. So why does she love her little...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
970L
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"'My father disappeared on a Tuesday that should've been like any Tuesday, but eventually became the Tuesday my father disappeared.' Tired of living in Limbo, Callie finally decides to investigate her father's disappearance for herself. Maybe there was an accident at the construction site that he oversaw? Maybe he doesn't remember who he is and is lost wandering somewhere? But after seeing a familiar face in a photo from the Great San Francisco Earthquake...
Author
Series
Dragon's guide volume Book 1
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Crusty dragon Miss Drake's new pet human, precocious ten-year-old Winnie, not only thinks Miss Drake is her pet, she accidentally brings to life her 'sketchlings' of mysterious and fantastic creatures hidden in San Francisco, causing mayhem among its residents" --
Author
Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Trenton, Kallista, and their friends from Discovery trace the origins of the dragons to San Francisco where they must battle a powerful white dragon in order to save the city and everyone who lives there" --
Author
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
276 pages, 36 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1957, inspired by what she is learning about civil rights and armed with knowledge of female ball players, ten-year-old Katy Gordon fights to be allowed to play Little League baseball.
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's summer 1977 and closeted lesbian Tammy Larson can't be herself anywhere. Not at her strict Christian high school, not at her conservative Orange County church and certainly not at home, where her ultrareligious aunt relentlessly organizes antigay political campaigns. Tammy's only outlet is writing secret letters in her diary to gay civil rights activist Harvey Milk--until she's matched with a real-life pen pal who changes everything. Sharon...
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 300L
Language
English
Description
Isabel has been sheltered in a high-society world. All that changes, when she breaches an invisible barrier, and steps into a magical and dangerous city where war rages between the fairies of the Seelie and Unseelie Courts.
Author
Series
American girls collection. Julie volume 3
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
76 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first Christmas since Julie's parents' divorce is difficult for the whole family, but Julie finds comfort sharing the Chinese New Year traditions of her best friend, Ivy Ling, and thinking about new beginnings.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer after seventh grade, and Ruby Chu is feeling more lost than ever. Her best friends aren't speaking to her. She ended the year in detention. Her sister's about to leave for college. Ruby's still grieving her grandfather Ye-Ye when it seems like no one else is. And without Ye-Ye and his annual scavenger hunts across San Francisco, their hometown doesn't really feel like home anymore. Things get worse when Ruby's forced to spend the...
32) The twice lost
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
472 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When humans declare war on mermaids, Luce swims to San Francisco Bay where she finds a group of "twice lost" girls, lost once when trauma turned them into mermaids and again when they defied mermaid law, and unites them into an army under her leadership.
33) Comic con artist
Author
Series
Hardy boys undercover brothers volume 21
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Physical Desc
170 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Frank and Joe Hardy work undercover at a comic book convention to find a forger.
34) Homeland
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1060L
Physical Desc
440 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Marcus, once called M1k3y, receives a thumbdrive containing evidence of corporate and governmental treachery, his job, fame, family, and well-being, as well as his reform-minded employer's election campaign, are all endangered.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
131 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
161 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
While trying to find a way for her elementary school to help fund the seabird rescue following an oil spill in the San Francisco Bay, Julie investigates the theft of rare guitar. Includes a "Looking Back" essay about benefit concerts in the 1970s.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This delightfully disastrous queer YA rom-com is a perfect read for fans of Jenny Han, Morgan Matson, and Sandhya Menon.
When Nozomi Nagai pictured the ideal summer romance, a fake one wasn't what she had in mind.
That was before she met the perfect girl. Willow is gorgeous, glamorous, and....heartbroken? And when she enlists Nozomi to pose as her new girlfriend to make her ex jealous, Nozomi is a willing volunteer.
Because Nozomi has a master plan...
38) Time after time
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from his point of view, continues the love story of Bennett, a time traveler from 2012 San Francisco, and Anna, sixteen, of 1995 Evanston, Illinois, as they try to make their relationship work despite his fear that it is not meant to be.
40) Outrun the moon
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong is determined to break from poverty in Chinatown, and she gains admittance to a prestigious finishing school through a mix of cunning and bribery. She soon discovers that getting in was the easiest part, and must carve a niche among the spoiled heiresses. When the earthquake strikes on April 18, Mercy and her classmates are forced to a survivor encampment, but her quick-witted leadership rallies them to help in the tragedy's...