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Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old Mallory learns that her boyfriend, Jeremy, is cheating on her with his cyber "wife," she rebels against technology by following her grandmother's list of goals from 1962, with help from her younger sister, Ginnie.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Upon her mother's death, fifteen-year-old Delaney Collins must move to California to live with a father she barely knows, and discovers not only that he is a fairy "godmother," but that she may be one, as well.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lena, almost sixteen, has always felt drawn to the waters of San Francisco Bay despite the fears of her father, a former surfer, but after she glimpses a beautiful woman with a tail, nothing can keep Lena from seeking the mermaid in the dangerous waves at Magic Crescent Cove.
4) Dark water
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living in a cottage on her uncle's southern California avocado ranch since her parent's messy divorce, fifteen-year-old Pearl Dewitt meets and falls in love with an illegal migrant worker, and is trapped with him when wildfires approach his makeshift forest home.
Author
Series
Sweet seasons volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Forced by her father to get a summer job, seventeen-year-old Candace makes the most of selling cotton candy in an amusement park, despite a botched nametag, vindictive co-workers, lewd patrons, and growing distant from her best friend.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Drew starts the summer of 1986 helping in her mother's cheese shop and dreaming about co-worker Nick, but when her widowed mother begins dating, Drew's father's book of lists, her pet rat, and Emmett, a boy on a quest, help her cope.
7) Nothing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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
Series
Sweet seasons volume 04
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
High school senior Candace struggles over decisions about college, boys, and friendship while working at the Candy Counter at The Zone amusement park.
9) Pretty sly
Author
Series
Pretty crooked trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Willa takes to the road with Aidan in a stolen car after her artist mother disappears, heading for the Santa Barbara, California, hotel from which her mother sent an email. But soon they are the targets of a nationwide manhunt.
10) What light
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
When Sierra falls for Caleb, a boy who made a terrible mistake years before, she is determined to help him find forgiveness, despite the disapproval and suspicions they meet.
11) So hard to say
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Xio, a Mexican American girl, and Frederick, who has just moved to California from Wisconsin, quickly become close friends, but when Xio starts thinking of Frederick as her boyfriend, he must confront his feelings of confusion and face the fear that he might be gay.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Carter Moon is expecting to spend a quiet summer working in her parents' restaurant and hanging out with her friends Alien Drake and Chloe --- but when a Hollywood company arrives to film a movie, her sleepy California town is suddenly transformed, and Carter finds herself playing an unexpected part in it all.
13) Six feet over it
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When fourteen-year-old Leigh's father buys a graveyard and insists she work there after school, she learns much about life, death, and the power of friendship.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Isobel is unhappy about spending the summer of 1918 at her aunt's home in Hollywood with her mother and sister until her cousin, Ranger, involves the girls in creating the perfect film and, when her father returns from the war, his serious injury becomes their inspiration.
15) The counseling
Author
Series
Ghost huntress volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
On spring break in California, seventeen-year-old psychic Kendall attends a camp where young people with gifts like hers hone their skills, but she finds more restless spirits there, as well as the boy from her last vision.
17) The jerk magnet
Author
Series
Life at Kingston High volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old Chelsea Martin's future stepmother gives her a total makeover, she attracts all of the wrong boys and drives away many girls, but her friend Janelle keeps telling Chelsea to be true to herself, while helping her find a way to catch the eye of Nicholas, the one "non-jerk" at school.
Author
Series
In the beautiful country volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"After a rocky first year, Anna's family has settled into life in California. Their small restaurant is even turning a profit. Then her parents make a shattering discovery: their visas have expired. Anna's world is quickly overwhelmed by unfamiliar words like "undocumented" and "inequality." She longs to share the towering secret that looms over every aspect of her life with a friend, but her parents strictly forbid her from telling anyone. As Anna...
19) Invisible girl
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Stephanie, whisked from Boston to Encino, California, to stay with family friends after her abusive, alcoholic mother abandons her, tries desperately to fit in with her "cousin's" popular group even as she sees how much easier it would be to remain invisible.
20) The date to save
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Angelica Marie Hutcherson is an aspiring reporter for the San Anselmo Prep's newspaper, The Prepster; sophomore Colin Von Kohorn is its editor, who keeps rejecting her stories because they do not reflect his "vision"; but when Colin suggests she write a story on the upcoming Academic Battle, Angelica senses an opportunity--unfortunately somebody has scheduled the Battle (which their school always wins) on the same day as the homecoming game (which...
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