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1) On the fence
Author
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Charlie has always been a tomboy, but when she accidentally becomes a makeup model, her newfound feminity draws her into an unknown social world, complete with guy troubles she's never had before"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Español
Description
When Margie's cousin Lupe comes from Mexico to live in California with Margie's family, Lupe must adapt to America, while Margie, who thought it would be fun to have her cousin there, finds that she is embarrassed by her in school and jealous of her at home.
4) Aftershocks
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a major earthquake hits California, trapping seventeen-year-old Ruby with Charlie, a near-stranger, in a laundromat, they struggle to stay alive and hopeful with only memories and each other's voices to sustain them.
6) Nothing
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Charlotte and Frankie think their lives are much more boring than the teen novels they read, but when Charlotte decides to write about their experiences, they realize much more is happening than meets the eye"--
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month - Books for High School
Teen Romance Comedies
Time's 100 Best YA Titles of All Time
Teen Romance Comedies
Time's 100 Best YA Titles of All Time
Description
"High school senior Frank Li takes a risk to go after a girl his parents would never approve of, but his plans will leave him wondering if he ever really understood love--or himself--at all"--
9) Underwater
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Ever since the mass shooting at her California high school, junior Morgan Grant has become increasingly agoraphobic until even the idea of stepping outside her door can bring on a panic attack, a situation not made any easier by the fact that her parents are divorced--but when Evan moves in next door she finds herself attracted to him and begins to find herself longing for the life she has been missing.
10) Smoke
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Colton and his mother move to a farm in California, away from his grandfather and his rodeo-champion father in Idaho, and after his cat Smoke goes missing, Colt feels even more lonely for his old life.
11) Little & Lion
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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"--
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Sophia Garcia, thirteen, wants to excel at softball like her older sister, Ellie, and make her family proud, but when she is chosen for a different team and position than Ellie, she must learn to succeed by being herself.
Author
Series
Unusual chickens volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, relates her adventures as two new unusual chickens come to the farm.
Author
Series
Cleo Edison Oliver volume 1
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Cleo Edison Oliver is full of money-making ideas, and her fifth-grade Passion Project is no different--but things get more complicated when she has to keep her business running, be a good listener when her best friend needs her, and deal with the bully teasing her about being adopted at the same time.
Author
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: From the author of the New York Times bestselling My Dearest Darkest comes another incredible Sapphic horror. When four best friends with a hunger for human flesh attend a music festival in the desert they discover a murderous plot to expose and vilify the girls and everyone like them.
18) Starry eyes
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When teens Zorie and Lennon, a former couple, are stranded in the California wilderness together, they must put aside their differences, and come to terms with lingering romantic feelings, in order to survive.
Author
Series
Unbelievably boring Bart volume 1
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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.
20) Esperanza rising
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Signature
Pub. Date
2002, c2000
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2024 Youth Media Awards
Book List for SOU Education Courses
Latinx/a/o Heritage Month 2022
National Hispanic Heritage Month Reads
Book List for SOU Education Courses
Latinx/a/o Heritage Month 2022
National Hispanic Heritage Month Reads
Description
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
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