Search Results: Returned 12 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 12
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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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2022., Adolescent, Simon & Schuster BYFR Call No: Historical Fic Hammonds Reed Edition: First Simon & Schuster BYFR paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view 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., Adolescent, Hyperion Call No: Mystery FIC MCCOY Edition: 1st ed., March 2015 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1948 Hollywood, a treacherous world of tough-talking private eyes, psychopathic movie stars, and troubled starlets, sixteen-year-old Alice tries to find a young runaway who is the sole witness to a beating that put her sister, Annie, in a coma.
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[2016], Adolescent, Atheneum Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When fate brings Lulu and Freddie together in 1930s Hollywood, sparks fly--and gunshots follow"--
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[2013], Random House Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The American fairy trilogy Volume: bk. 2Summary Note: As a child of prophecy and daughter of the legitimate heir to the Seelie throne, fourteen-year-old Callie poses a huge threat to the warring fae factions who have attached themselves to the most powerful people in 1930s Hollywood.
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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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[2018]., Adolescent, Atheneum Call No: Historical Fiction FIC GUT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day then jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot suit wearing younger brother, Ray, as escort until the night racial violence leads to murder. Includes historical note.
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c2007., Houghton Mifflin Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When shoelace heir Neddie Wentworthstein and his family take the train from Chicago to Los Angeles in the 1940s, he winds up in possession of a valuable Indian turtle artifact whose owner is supposed to be able to prevent the impending destruction of the world, but he is not sure exactly how.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: MYSTERY F ROS Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1946 Hollywood, eighteen-year-old Clara Berg dreams of becoming a film editor and going on a real date with handsome yet unpredictable screenwriter Gil, until she stumbles upon a murder mystery.
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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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2023., Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown and Company Call No: [Fic] Edition: First trade paperback edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to view 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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c2009., Pre-adolescent, Sandpiper Call No: FANTASY F PIN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the mid-1950s, Yggdrasil Birnbaum and her friends, Seamus and Neddie, journey to Old New Hackensack, which is on another plane, to try to learn why ghosts are disappearing from the Birnbaum's hotel and other Hollywood, California, locations.
