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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.
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.--
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
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.
8) 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.
11) The new kid
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
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.
12) 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.
13) Tokyo ever after
Author
Series
Tokyo ever after volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
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.
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.
16) New from here
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"When the coronavirus hits Hong Kong, ten-year-old Knox Wei-Evans’s mom makes the last-minute decision to move him and his siblings back to California, where they think they will be safe. Suddenly, Knox has two days to prepare for an international move—and for leaving his dad, who has to stay for work. At his new school in California, Knox struggles with being the new kid. His classmates think that because he’s from Asia, he must have brought...
19) The no-no boys
Author
Series
Publisher
Victory House Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Tai Shimoda's family has lost everything. Like many other Japanese-Americans at the start of World War II, Tai's family has been forced to move to Tule Lake Relocation Center in Northern California. Though he misses his friends back home, Tai does his best to start a new life behind the barbed wire of camp. But in the spring of 1943, tensions at Tule Lake are growing. Tai's older brother has joined a group who has refused to swear...
20) Fantasmas
Author
Publisher
Graphix, un sello editorial de Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Catrina y su familia se mudan a la costa norte de California porque la hermana de Catrina está enferma. Una vez en su nuevo hogar, un vecino les cuenta a las chicas un secreto: ¡Hay fantasmas en BahÃa de la Luna!
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