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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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[2018]., Adolescent, Carolrhoda LAB Call No: REALISTIC F MCC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Over the course of her high school years, awkward Claudia McCarthy finds herself unwittingly drawn into the dark side of her school's student government, with dire consequences.
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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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2020., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: Fic Sal Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture poems her father taught her, but each day threatens to further tear her family apart.
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-- Francine Greenc2006., Pre-adolescent, Clarion Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Publisher description More... Summary Note: In 1949, thirteen-year-old Francine goes to Catholic school in Los Angeles where she becomes best friends with a girl who questions authority and is frequently punished by the nuns, causing Francine to question her own values.
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2015., Pre-adolescent, Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company Call No: F TAS Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Derek Fallon's mother hires John, a UCLA student, as his reading tutor, the two spend their time playing video games instead of studying and soon Derek falls behind on preparations for the big state English test, but with help from his friends and astrict new tutor, he might just pass.
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2015., Pre-adolescent, Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company Call No: F Tas Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Derek Fallon gets the chance of a lifetime when he is asked to test software for new video games, but he soon discovers that his dream job isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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[2016]., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Inc. Call No: Gold Fiction TASHJIAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Derek Fallon gets the chance of a lifetime when he is asked to test software for new video games, but he soon discovers that his dream job isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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Ã2014, Pre-adolescent, Henry Holt and Co. Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st Square Fish ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: "Derek Fallon discovers all the angst that comes with being twelve--he just wants to feel grown up, but life gets in the way with a series of mishaps that make him look like a baby"--Provided by publisher.
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Ã2014., Pre-adolescent, Henry Holt and Co. Call No: F Tas Edition: 1st Square Fish ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: "Derek Fallon discovers all the angst that comes with being twelve--he just wants to feel grown up, but life gets in the way with a series of mishaps that make him look like a baby"--Provided by publisher.
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2019., Juvenile, Henry Holt and Company Call No: FIC TAS Edition: First edition. Genre: Realistic fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Derek Fallon and his friends return for an uproarious meme-themed adventure.
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c2011., Henry Holt Call No: FIC TAS Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Derek Fallon has the opportunity of a lifetime--to perform stunts in a movie featuring a popular twelve-year-old star--but complications arise involving his best friend, a capuchin monkey, and Derek's chronic inability to concentrate on schoolwork.
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c2012., Pre-adolescent, Harper Call No: SPO FIC GRE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When movie star Trevor and regular Little League player Sam discover that they are identical twins who were separated at birth, they decide to trade places for a while so that Sam can live the Hollywood life and Trevor can play baseball.
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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.
