Search Results: Returned 20 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 20
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c2013., Pre-adolescent, Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: HIS FIC CHO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "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"--
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2011, c2009., Pre-adolescent, Puffin Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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[2018], Pre-adolescent, Wendy Lamb Books Call No: HISTORICAL F CHO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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[2018], Pre-adolescent, Wendy Lamb Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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[2020]., Simon & Schuster BFYR Call No: HISTORICAL F HAM Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.
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[2015]., Wendy Lamb Books Call No: Historical Fiction FIC CHO Edition: First Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: San Francisco, 1900. The Gilded Age. A fantastic time to be alive for lots of people... but not thirteen-year-old Lizzie Kennedy, stuck at Miss Barstow's snobby school for girls. Lizzie's secret passion is science, an unsuitable subject for finishing-school girls. Lizzie lives to go on house calls with her physician father. On those visits to his patients, she discovers a hidden dark side of the city -- a side that's full of secrets, rats, and rumors of the plague. The newspapers, her powerful uncle, and her beloved papa all deny that the plague has reached San Francisco. So why is the heart of the city under quarantine? Why are angry mobs trying to burn Chinatown to the ground? Why is Noah, the Chinese cook's son, suddenly making Lizzie question everything she has known to be true? Ignoring the rules of race and class, Lizzie and Noah must put the pieces together in a heart-stopping race to save the people they love.
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Ã2008, Pre-adolescent, Harper Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ten-year-old Gim Lew Yep immigrates from China to America with his father, whom Gim barely knows, and fears he will be a disappointment to his family when he arrives at Angel Island.
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2015., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.
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2015., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: 813.54 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.
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-- San Francisco earthquake, 19062012., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Inc Call No: FIC MEA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: I survivedSummary Note: Ten-year-old Leo loves being a newsboy in San Francisco -- not only does he get to make some money to help his family, he's free to explore the amazing, hilly city as it changes and grows with the new century. Horse-drawn carriages share the streets with shiny new automobiles, new businesses and families move in every day from everywhere, and anything seems possible. But early one spring morning, everything changes. Leo's world is shaken -- literally -- and he finds himself stranded in the middle of San Francisco as it crumbles and burns to the ground. Does Leo have what it takes to survive this devastating disaster?.
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[2017], Pre-adolescent, Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: REALISTIC F ENG Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the summer of 1965, Sophie's family becomes the first African Americans to move into their upper middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles. When riots erupt in nearby Watts, she learns that life and her own place in it are a lot more complicated than they had seemed.
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c2007., Juvenile, American Girl Pub. Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: American GirlSummary Note: Julie and her best friend, Ivy, find a baby owl in Golden Gate Park--and it needs help. At a wildlife rescue center, Julie meets Shasta and Sierra, two bald eagles that will be caged for life, unless money is raised to release them back into the wild. For Earth Day, Julie thinks of a unique way to tell the public of the eagles' plight. The "Looking Back" section explores the beginning of the environmental movement.--From publisher's description.
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-- Disaster in San Francisco, 19062006, c2004., Pre-adolescent, Peachtree Call No: FIC KAR Edition: 1st trade pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake as seen through the eyes of Jacob, a thirteen-year-old Jewish boy who lives in a boarding house with his father and younger sister.
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-- I survivedc2012., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic ; Fitzgerald Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Early one spring morning, everything changes. Leo's world is shaken -- literally -- and he finds himself stranded in the middle of San Francisco as it crumbles and burns to the ground. Does Leo have what it takes to survive this devastating disaster?
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[2015]., G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: FIC VAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: California, 1950s: Ella Mae doesn't believe her soldier cousin can be brought back to life from blood on his dog tags - until she watches a boy step out of a bio-pod. But why is this boy Japanese?.
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-- Sylvia and Aki2013., Pre-adolescent, Yearling Call No: HISTORICAL F CON Edition: First Yearling edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.
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-- 3 strike summerPre-adolescent Call No: HISTORICAL F SCH Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Dust Bowl refugee Gloria Mae Willard finds herself uprooted and working on a California peach orchard, where she tries to join the secret, all-boys baseball team that she's desperate to play on."
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2022., Pre-adolescent, LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY Call No: HISTORICAL F CHO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: On the first night of rioting in the wake of the Rodney King verdict, Jordan's father leaves to check on the family store, spurring twelve-year-old Jordan and his friends to embark on a dangerous journey through South Central and Koreatown to come to his aid, encountering the racism within their community as they go.
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2022., Pre-adolescent, Cameron Kids Call No: REALISTIC F FAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When her best friend's cancer returns in the summer of 1987, none of her usual pursuits--surfing, singing, or reading poetry--can keep thirteen-year-old Ava afloat.
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By Chee, Traci[2020]., Adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: HISTORICAL F CHE Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
