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1) The red pony
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Raised on a ranch in northern California, Jody is well-schooled in the hard work and demands of a rancher's life. He is used to the way of horses, too; but nothing has prepared him for the special connection he will forge with Gabilan, a hot-tempered pony his father gives him. With Billy Buck, the hired hand, Jody tends and trains his horse, restlessly anticipating the moment he will sit high upon Gabilan's saddle. But when Gabilan...
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English
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"The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. The catch? None of them knows what (or who) to expect, and it will be live streamed all over the world. Completely secluded in an estate in Northern California, with strict instructions not to leave the property and zero contact with the outside world, the competitors start...
3) Nope
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Two siblings who run a California horse ranch discover something wonderful and sinister in the skies above, and the owner of an adjacent theme park tries to profit from the mysterious, otherworldly phenomenon.
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Eighteen years after the body of an unidentified young woman is discovered in a quarry off California's Highway 1, two police detectives nearing retirement enlist Kinsey Millhone's aid to help identify the long-ago murder victim.
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Series
Virgin River volume 7
Language
English
Description
"Marine corporal Rick Sudder is home early from Iraq-his tour ended abruptly on the battlefield. The carefree boy is gone, replaced by a man who believes his future is as bleak as his mirror image. But can the passion and commitment of a young woman who has never given up on him mend his broken body and shattered heart? As the people of Virgin River rally around Rick, another recent arrival tests the tightly knit mountain town's famous welcoming spirit....
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English
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Girls--their vulnerability, strength, and passion to belong--are at the heart of this stunning first novel for readers of Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides and Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad. Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Amy Redwing is the founder of a California organization that rescues abandoned and endangered golden retrievers. Amy risks her life to save Nickie and takes her into her home. The bond between Amy and Nickie is immediate and uncanny. Even her two other goldens, Fred and Ethel, recognize Nickie as special, a natural alpha. But the instant joy Nickie brings is shadowed by a series of eerie incidents. An ominous stranger. A mysterious home invasion.
8) Father Stu
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second chance to help others, leading to the surprising realization...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Alder has always lived in his cozy little house in Southern California. An old, reliable, comforting walnut tree has stood between his house and the one next door. When a new family--with a particularly annoying girl his age named Oak--moves into the neighboring house, they cut the tree down. As Oak and Alder start school together, they can't imagine ever becoming friends. But they soon discover a series of mysterious, possibly magical, connections...
10) Hostage
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English
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Police chief Jeff Talley is thrown back into the tension-filled world that he wants to forget when a family is held hostage in their home, which contains secrets that even Los Angeles' lethal crime lord, Sonny Benza, fears.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Malek Construction is a mega-million-dollar company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construction and one of the few still in family hands. Today, the three Malek sons stand to inherit a fortune, but in order for any one of them to claim his share, the missing fourth brother must be found..."
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Series
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English
Description
Visitors to Grace Valley, California, often remark about its peace and beauty-both of which are plentiful. But visitors can't see what lies at the heart of a community. June Hudson, the daughter of the town doctor, left town only to get her medical training, then returned home to follow in her father's footsteps. Some might say she chose the easy, comfortable route...but June knows better. Always on call, her work is her life. Grace Valley is no place...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
Description
"For generations, Rich Gundersen's family has chopped a livelihood out of the redwood forest along California's rugged coast. Now Rich and his wife, Colleen, are raising their own young son near Damnation Grove, a swath of ancient redwoods on which Rich's employer, Sanderson Timber Co., plans to make a killing. In 1977, with most of the forest cleared or protected, a grove like Damnation--and beyond it 24-7 Ridge--is a logger's dream. It's dangerous...
14) Tortilla Flat
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Concerns the poor but carefree 'paisano' Danny and his friends Pillon, Pablo, Big Joe Portagee, Jesus Maria Corcoran, and the old Pirate, all of whom gather in Danny's house."
15) "N" is for noose
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone puts herself in the gravest danger of her career when she is hired by the widow of Nota Lake detective Tom Newquist to discover what it was that had been bothering Tom in the last six weeks of his life before he died of a heart attack.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former CIA agent Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. He's already deep into the investigation of a multi-million dollar NFL gambling scandal and the unsolved slayings of 18 schoolgirls when he learns of a horrific murder close to home: his best friend's wife, Jack's former lover, has been killed.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
"When Irene Gersh asks PI Kinsey Millhone to locate her elderly mother Agnes, whom she hasn't heard from in six months, it's not exactly the kind of case Kinsey jumps for. But a girl's gotta pay her bills, and this should be easy money or so she thinks. Kinsey finds Agnes in a hospital. Aside from her occasional memory lapses, the octogenarian seems fine. And frightened."
19) 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.
20) The jaguar
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Series
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English
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Bradley Jones, a deputy in the L.A. sheriff's department who's been transporting drugs for a Mexican cartel since he was 17, turns to fellow deputy Hood for help after henchmen of a rival cartel kidnap Jones's pregnant wife, Erin. If Jones doesn't pay the rival cartel's leader, Benjamin Armenta, a million within 10 days as an apology for the trouble he's caused Armenta, Armenta will have Erin skinned alive.
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