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Molly Moon volume 2
Language
English
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Believing that she has been sent to Los Angeles by her librarian friend, Lucy Logan, to stop an evil plot by the wealthy Primo Cell, Molly Moon and her friend Roger, orphans with unusual hypnotic powers, find themselves in danger from an unsuspected source.
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English
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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 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...
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Poison apple books volume 8
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old vampire Ashlee Lambert moves from New York to sunny Los Angeles, where she must deal with vicious cliques, awful sunburns, and a mystery of disappearing classmates that Ashlee must solve.
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English
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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.
5) Pinch hit
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Language
English
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"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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Series
I funny volume 3
Language
English
Description
As the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic finals near, Jamie faces a whirlwind of attention at school and in the media and the fame starts to go to his head, but in Hollywood with Uncle Frankie, some of his fellow comedians quickly show him what competition and pressure are all about.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
During the pilot year of a Los Angeles school system integration program, two sixth grade boys, one black, one white, become best friends as they learn to cope with everything from first crushes and playground politics to the loss of loved ones and racial prejudice in the 1970s.
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Series
Lost in-- volume 5
Publisher
Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Ginger Carlson's aunt finds herself in financial trouble, Ginger's entire family and her best friend head to Hollywood to help find the missing money.
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Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jess O'Fines is resentful that she is expected to watch her baby niece in a Los Angeles hotel room while the rest of her dysfunctional family go off to a wedding rehearsal party -- but when Baby Ruby disappears, Jess is convinced she knows who kidnapped her and determined to get her back on her own, whatever the danger.
11) The right track
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Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Talented but painfully shy Lark secretly writes feisty, heartfelt songs about school, crushes on boys, not getting along with her mum and missing her dad who lives in Nashville. But her songwriting becomes harder to keep secret when Lark's mother, a music record executive at her own label, announces that British boy band Abbey Road will be coming to live with them while they make their first album! Sharing her LA house with three noisy, mischievous...
12) Made to measure
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Chloe and her mother take a trip to Los Angeles, where Chloe is combining a guest appearance on the new season of Teen Design Diva, with a tour of the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, which is one of the colleges that she is considering, aware that her mother would like her to stay closer to Santa Cruz.
13) I for an eye
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Searching in Los Angeles for the descendant of the man whose right eye was used to create his dad, J.D. discovers that the man, Sam Hammer, is a detective on the trail of a werewolf--and finds himself arrested at the request of Frankenstein's daughter.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In August 1965, twelve-year-old Eden's older cousin from Mississippi comes to visit her in Los Angeles, and while the Watts Riots erupt around them, they continue their investigation of the disappearance of Winter's father ten years ago.
15) Double feature
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Series
Payton and Emma Mills books volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Twins Payton and Emma are off to Hollywood to star in a TV commercial but nothing goes as planned and it may take a twin switch or two to help things work out"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Shelby Bloom's family has just moved from Ohio to Los Angeles where she will be forced to share a room with her eleven-year-old sister Lila (ugh!), and try and make friends in her new school (hopeless, especially for a girl who likes to tell jokes)--but Ajay, the boy across the street has a dog and likes to laugh, and two horse-loving girls (who have never actually ridden a horse) invite her to the local riding stables, and suddenly Los...
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Shelby Bloom loves jokes but she is horrified when her mother posts an embarrassing video of her, a video that mean girl Brooke makes sure everyone at school sees--Shelby does not like being the laughingstock, and she does not like being paired with Brooke's best friend, Tessa, on a school health project, but it turns out there are compensations, and soon Shelby has the class laughing with her instead of at her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Disturbed by her student's rude behavior Shelby's fourth grade teacher decides give out a "Good Person Award," and Shelby and her nemesis Brooke are instantly in a competition with each other; the trouble is that most of their ideas about being a good person do not actually involve helping or being polite to other people--but in the end Shelby finds that what she does best is to make people laugh.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
With a homework pass as the prize, everyone in Shelby Bloom's fourth grade class wants to win the talent show, especially Shelby and her nemesis, Brooke; after Brooke sabotages Shelby's stand-up comedy act, Shelby and her friend Ajay decide to join forces in a comedy skit--and plot their revenge on Brooke.