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1) The Red Pony
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
The moving and beautiful story of a boy, a sorrel colt and the sun-drenched California earth." Junius Maltby: After ten years as a San Francisco accountant, Junius moves to sunny Pastures of Heaven, marries, has a son and becomes poverty stricken through laziness. When he realizes he is hurting his son, he has to make a decision.
2) Ghosts
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis--and Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, and Maya sets her heart on meeting one.
Author
Series
Magic on the map volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The magical RV takes twins Finn and Molly to Northern California, where they help keep campers safe during a wildfire.--
6) White Fang
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set during the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon Territory, London's 1906 story chronicles the story of a half-dog, half-wolf beast in the wild. As opposed to his famous Call of the Wild tale of a domestic dog reverting to the wild, White Fang depicts a wild animal eventually becoming domesticated. It is a gripping tale told from the wolf's point of view about the hard life in the frozen wilds of the north. The story concludes with White Fang returning...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Stolen From Home and sold into a harsh life as a sled dog in northern Canada, Buck must quickly learn to survive. He soon takes his place as leader of the hardworking team, and his strength and courage become legendary among men. But the call of the wild is strong, awakening primal feelings of a life among wolves...
One of the greatest of all wildlife stories, The Call of the Wild will enthrall today's readers as it has since its first publication...
Author
Series
I survived volume 20
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of a boy who moves across the country to rural northern California, where his efforts to adjust are challenged by a fast-moving firestorm that places family homes and lives at risk.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Laws protecting the spotted owls in the old growth forest of northern California cost Borden's father his logging job. Angry, Borden vows to kill any spotted owl he sees, but has a change of heart when he and his father find themselves taking care of a young owlet.
Author
Publisher
Cobblehill Books/Dutton
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When an earthquake hits the isolated island in northern California where his family had been camping, twelve-year-old Jonathan Palmer must find a way to keep himself, his partially paralyzed younger sister, and their dog alive until help arrives.
11) Bones of a saint
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In 1970s northern California, fifteen-year-old RJ Armante must fight to save himself and his disabled brother from the Blackjacks gang, and free his hometown, Arcangel, from its past.
12) Penny
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 16
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Penny, a blue-eyed palomino paint mare, narrates her experiences with her owner, Buckeye Jack, and Jack's grandson, Jesse, during the 1850s Northern California gold rush.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of a boy who moves across the country to rural northern California, where his efforts to adjust are challenged by a fast-moving firestorm that places family homes and lives at risk.
15) The new kid
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When almost-nine-year-old Carson Blum and his father move to Northern California, he is worried about adjusting to his new, large, public school and finding friends.
16) Tokyo ever after
Author
Series
Tokyo ever after volume 1
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After learning that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan, Izumi travels to Tokyo, where she discovers that Japanese imperial life--complete with designer clothes, court intrigue, paparazzi scandals, and a forbidden romance with her handsome but stoic bodyguard--is a tough fit for the outspoken and irreverant eighteen-year-old from northern California.
17) The tiny mansion
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Dagmar and her family spend a summer living off-the-grid in a tiny home parked in the Northern California redwood forest, next door to an eccentric tech billionaire and his very unusual family.
Author
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the history, culture, and people of the many Indian tribes that inhabited the region from northern California through the states of New Mexico and Arizona and adjacent parts of Mexico and Texas.