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Author
Series
A to Z mysteries.Super edition volume 5
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
550L
Physical Desc
132 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are enjoying a visit to San Francisco when Holden, their college-age tour guide, is accused of abducting Miss Chinatown from the Chinese New Year parade and stealing her valuable crown.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tessa loves working at the trendy food truck her aunt runs in their native San Francisco. Serving yummy BLTs to her classmates after school, Tessa feels like she's living the dream. Then the dream turns into a nightmare. Popular, arrogant Asher starts working at the truck! He can't make a sandwich to save his life, and he's frustratingly cute. But when the city's big food festival is canceled, the future of the truck is suddenly at stake. Can Tessa...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
218 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is 1906, and when her family is cheated out of their tavern, fourteen-year-old Minnie Bonner is forced to become a maid to the Sump family, who are moving to San Francisco--three weeks before the great earthquake.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
398 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Chinatown volume 3
Pub. Date
1999
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a prop gun used during the making of a television show turns out to have real bullets, twelve-year-old Lily Lew and Auntie, her movie actress great-aunt, comb San Francisco's Chinatown in search of the culprit responsible for loading the gun.
46) Parked
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Newly homeless Jeanne Ann and wealthy Cal form a vital friendship as they both search for stability and community, finding it through love of books, art, and food"--
Jeanne Ann is smart, stubborn, living in an orange van, and determined to find a permanent address before the start of seventh grade. Cal is tall, sensitive, living in a humongous house across the street, and determined to save her. Jeanne Ann is roughly as enthusiastic about his help...
47) Alcatraz
Author
Series
I Q volume 6
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (253 pages).
Language
English
Description
With the nation reeling from the recent terrorist attacks, Q and Angela leave Chicago and arrive in San Francisco. Their parents are determined to continue the Match tour but for safety's sake, they have decided to send Q and Angela to boarding school. Not happy at the thought of being taken off the trail of the ghost cell, Q and Angela race against time with Boone and the SOS team to find Number One, the leader of the world's most feared terrorist...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ariana, a tomboy, and her ladylike cousin Laila, recently arrived from Afghanistan, do not get along but they pull together when a rival Afghani grocery store opens, rekindling an old family feud and threatening their family's livelihood.
Author
Series
Sam London adventure volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
391 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a selkie appears in the San Francisco bay, Sam London and the guardian Tashi are summoned by Dr. Vance Vantana of the Department of Mythical Wildlife to help track the creature down. Except unbeknownst to them, other forces are at work and the secret that mythical creatures exist and live amongst humans is in even bigger danger than ever before" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 348 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Xochi's life changed when she became governess to precocious twelve-year-old Pallas, but the duo unintentionally summons a pair of ancient creatures determined to right the wrongs of Xochi's adolescence.
Xochi is on her own in San Francisco, running from a painful past. She accepts a position as governess to Pallas, a precocious twelve-year-old with a rockstar family that lives in one of the city's storybook Victorian mansions....
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old San Franciscan Lucy Beck-Moreau once had a promising future as a concert pianist. Her chance at a career has passed, and she decides to help her ten-year-old piano prodigy brother, Gus, map out his own future, even as she explores why she enjoyed piano in the first place."--
54) Me, Frida
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
AD 660L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 x 27cm
Language
English
Description
Artist Frida Kahlo finds her own voice and style when her famous husband, Diego Rivera, is commissioned to paint a mural in San Francisco, California, in the 1930s and she finds herself exploring the city on her own.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
During the summer before ninth grade, intrepid Gilda Joyce invites herself to the San Francisco mansion of distant cousin Lester Splinter and his thirteen-year-old daughter, where she uses her purported psychic abilities and detective skills to solve the mystery of the mansion's boarded-up tower.
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
[New ed.].
Physical Desc
5 unnumbered pages, 42 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Maybelle loves to carry people up and down the hilly streets of San Francisco, until the City Fathers decide that she should be taken out of service in the name of progress.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1970's San Francisco, Julie is excited to take care of Ivy's talking parrot while her friend is on vacation, but strange things are happening at Ivy's house and an old friend of Julie may be to blame.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, Mia must fight to reunite with her ex-boyfriend Alfie, whom she still loves, before the aftershocks of a devastating earthquake separates them forever.
60) World after
Author
Series
Penryn and the end of days volume 2
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Penryn's search for her kidnapped sister, Paige, leads her into the heart of the angels' secret plans, while Raffe must choose between reclaiming his wings--and his role as the angels' leader--or helping Penryn survive.