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Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Xander and his family move into an old, abandoned house in the middle of a dense forest outside of a small California town, they discover that not only are some of the rooms portals into other places, but that malevolent forces are at work.
2) Frenzy
Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 6
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Xander travels through the portals in the King's strange house to visit Uncle Jesse as a boy, he learns that David has died and determines to do whatever it takes, and visit as many worlds as necessary, to change the future.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a rough California mining town.
Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old David and his family search for their kidnapped mother in the many different time period portals of their home, but when a stranger appears and tries to force them to sell the house, their desperation reaches new heights.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Danny Cheng, a Chinese-American teen, grapples with a dangerous revelation about his parents' past, his plans for the future, and his feelings for his best friend, Harry Wong.
6) Zia
Author
Series
Publisher
Sandpiper
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A young Indian girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her aunt Karana, whose story was told in "The Island of the Blue Dolphins."
8) Win or lose
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Devin's team thinks she is taking too much credit for their winning streak and she must keep the team together"--
Author
Series
Unbelievably boring Bart volume 1
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Brainy twelve-year-old Bart attracts little attention at his new middle school near Hollywood, California, but whenever he can get around his gym-coach father, he secretly hunts electricity-guzzling aliens.
10) Gone
Author
Series
Gone novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the blink of an eye, everyone disappears. Gone. Except for the young. There are teens, but not one single adult. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no internet, no television. No way to get help. And no way to figure out what's happened. Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents -- unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers -- that grow stronger...
11) Saving the team
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After moving to California, seventh-grader Devin is afraid she will not make the soccer team but finds, instead, a team is so bad that she is compelled to take the lead and turn it into something the players and coach can all be proud of.
12) Odder
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself--and about the humans who hope to save her"--
13) What light
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sierra's family runs a Christmas tree farm in Oregon, and every year they pack up and move to California to set up their Christmas tree lot for the season. So Sierra lives two lives: her life in Oregon and her life at Christmas. By reputation, Caleb is not your perfect guy: years ago, he made an enormous mistake and has been paying for it ever since. But Sierra sees beyond Caleb's past and becomes determined to help him find forgiveness and, maybe,...
Author
Series
Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt grows up on her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, learning to train the horses her father sells and trying to reconcile her strict religious upbringing with her own ideas about life.
15) Nexus
Author
Series
Zeroes volume 3
Publisher
Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After the shocking conclusion to Swarm, the zeroes are scattered, on the run, and desperate. They're up against challenges from within and from the world around them, and one thing is certain an epic showdown is guaranteed.
Accused of murdering Swarm, Bellwether is in a high-security prison; Flicker, Crash, Mob, and Scam are on the run as suspected domestic terrorists. Meanwhile an army of Zeroes is gathering in New Orleans, around Piper-- a new...
16) A good horse
Author
Series
Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack, when it comes to light that his dam might have been stolen.
Author
Series
Unusual chickens volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.
18) Lucky for good
Author
Series
Hard Pan trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
The residents of Hard Pan, California, come together to help Brigitte and Lucky when the County Health Department threatens to close down the café, and meantime Miles's life is complicated by his mother's return.
19) Tokyo ever after
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After learning that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan, Izumi travels to Tokyo, where she discovers that Japanese imperial life--complete with designer clothes, court intrigue, paparazzi scandals, and a forbidden romance with her handsome but stoic bodyguard--is a tough fit for the outspoken and irreverent eighteen-year-old from northern California.
20) Penny
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 16
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Penny is a blue-eyed palomino paint mare with a taste for adventure! She and a boy named Jesse search for gold in Northern California. After striking it rich and then losing everything, Jesse and Penny join the Pony Express. The job is a tough one, but Penny loves a challenge! Here is Penny's story...in her own words.
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