Nelson, Jandy
Summary: "A story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal told from different points in time, and in separate voices, by artists Jude and her twin brother Noah"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION NELCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NELCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NELShusterman, Neal
Summary: When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, Alyssa's quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone in the hunt for water. And that's when her parents go missing.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHUShusterman, Neal
Summary: A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SHUHo, Joanna
Summary: In the year following their son's death, May Chen's parents face racist accusations of putting too much pressure on their son and causing his death by suicide, and May attempts to challenge the racism and ugly stereotypes through her writing, only to realize that she still has a lot to learn and that her actions have consequences for her family as well as herself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOColbert, Brandy
Summary: "Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her brother Lionel fall in love with the same girl, pushing Lionel's bipolar disorder to spin out of control and forcing Suzette to confront her own demons"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC COLAvi
Summary: While her father mines for gold in 1848 San Francisco, Tory embarks on a search for her kidnapped brother among Rotten Row's hundreds of abandoned ships.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AVICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Avi 2020Collins, Ailynn
Summary: Having just moved to California, Syretia's mother enrolls her and her younger brother, Sean, in the only summer camp available: Mars or Bust, which is focusing on the Mars Curiosity rover due to land soon; Sean is thrilled by all things involving space, but eleven-year-old rock enthusiast Syretia is not really interested, until she discovers that the rover will be studying Martian geology--as...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COLCameron, Josephine
Summary: As his family's dog-friendly bed-and-breakfast establishment in dog-friendly Carmelito, California, welcomes celebrity dog Sir Bentley, twelve-year-old Epic McDade and his younger siblings investigate the disappearance of the famous dog's jewel-encrusted collar.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD CAMCholdenko, Gennifer
Summary: Moose has his hands full during the summer of 1936 watching his autistic sister, Natalie, and the warden's daughter, Piper, and trying to get on a baseball team by proving he knows Al Capone.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CHOKegan, Stephanie.
Summary: "In the vein of Defending Jacob or We Need to Talk About Kevin, a compelling literary drama about finding evil close to home and how far a woman will go to protect her family. All her life, Natalie Askedahl has been the good girl, an obedient team player. Growing up as the youngest child in one of California's most prominent political families, she worshipped her big brother, Bobby, a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEGCholdenko, Gennifer
Summary: "Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, faces new challenges when his father is promoted to Associate Warden"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHONewman, Sandra
Summary: Opening a fraudulent spiritual center with her brother and their friend Ralph in coastal California, Chrysalis Moffat experiences unexpected success before discovering their father's secret past and its connection to Ralph's mysterious, gambling-marked world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWScott, Michael
Summary: Nicholas Flamel and teenaged twins Josh and Sophie Newman return to San Francisco where a weakened Flamel reunites with his wife, Perenelle, hoping to use his remaining power to prevent the monsters on Alcatraz Island from escaping. Meanwhile, Dr. John Dee and Machiavelli continue to seek power and the twins desperately try to determine who they can trust as they search for Scatty and an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCOCholdenko, Gennifer
Summary: Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC CHOLethem, Jonathan
Summary: Before the Arrest, Sandy Duplessis had a reasonably good life as a screenwriter in L.A. An old college friend and writing partner, the charismatic and malicious Peter Todbaum, had become one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. That didn't hurt. Now, post-Arrest, nothing is what it was. Sandy, who calls himself Journeyman, has landed in rural Maine. There he assists the butcher and delivers...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LETPacker, Ann
Summary: "Bill Blair finds the land by accident, three wooded acres in a rustic community south of San Francisco. The year is 1954, long before anyone will call this area Silicon Valley. Struck by a vision of the family he has yet to create, Bill buys the property on a whim. In Penny Greenway he finds a suitable wife, a woman whose yearning attitude toward life seems compelling and answerable, and they...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PACLethem, Jonathan
Summary: Before the Arrest, Sandy Duplessis had a reasonably good life as a screenwriter in L.A. An old college friend and writing partner, the charismatic and malicious Peter Todbaum, had become one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. That didn't hurt. Now, post-Arrest, nothing is what it was. Sandy, who calls himself Journeyman, has landed in rural Maine. There he assists the butcher and delivers...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LETCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction LethemMottley, Leila
Summary: "A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system-a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022