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Summary: Marley Sandelski has always felt invisible at school when he is not facing bullies, but a series of unexpected events gives him a taste of popularity and insights into some classmates who are well-liked or greatly-feared.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books 2011
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: FIC YEEVan Dolzer, Krista.
Summary: In 1950s California, grieving Mildred Clausen tries to have her son, who was killed in World War II, cloned. When the result is a Japanese boy instead, her niece, Ella Mae, befriends him in spite of the town's intense prejudice and her aunt's conviction that he is her son's killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: FIC VANGrafton, Sue.
Summary: Kinsey Millhone, a private investigator in the small California town of Santa Teresa, faces a formidable enemy when she begins to suspect there is something not right about Solana Rojas, the home health care nurse hired to look after Kinsey's elderly neighbor and friend Gus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2008
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: T FICTION GRAFTON 20Nelson, Jandy
Summary: "A story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal told from different points in time, and in separate voices, by artists Jude and her twin brother Noah"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION NELSONYang, Kelly
Summary: Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: J FICTION YANG bk. 1Yang, Kelly
Summary: "Mia Tang thinks she's going to have the best year ever. She and her parents are the proud owners of the Calivista Motel, Mia gets to run the front desk with her best friend, Lupe, and she's finally getting somewhere with her writing! But as it turns out, sixth grade is no picnic"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: J FICTION YANGRivers, Francine
Summary: New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save. 1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION RIVERSShusterman, Neal
Summary: A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2018
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: Y FICTION SHUSTERMANGrafton, Sue.
Summary: Kinsey Millhone of California discovers an undelivered letter exonerating her first husband of beating a man to death, for which she left him. Kinsey goes after the real killer, a probe that takes her back to Vietnam War days.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1999
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Summary: A newly graduated Mila emerges from foster care to accept a job on an isolated Northern California Coast farm where she confronts haunting memories and the traumas of her fellow residents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION LACOURQuick, Amanda
Summary: When Hollywood moguls and stars want privacy, they head to an idyllic small town on the coast, where the exclusive Burning Cove Hotel caters to their every need. It's where reporter Irene Glasson finds herself staring down at a beautiful actress at the bottom of a pool.The dead woman had a red-hot secret about up-and-coming leading man Nick Tremayne, a scoop that Irene couldn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2017
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Summary: When Morley Shine, a fellow PI, dies from a heart attack, Kinsey Millhone takes over the seemingly simple task of gathering evidence for Lonnie Kingman, a local attorney immersed in a civil suit. Stakes are high. David Birney, acquitted of his wealthy wife's murder five years ago, got his hands on her fortune. Now Kingman wants to divest Birney of the money in favor of the wife's child by an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1992
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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY GRAFTONSteinbeck, John
Summary: John Steinbeck's classic novel about an Oklahoma farm family driven from their home and forced to travel to California during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2006
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: FIC STESchrempp, Skyler
Summary: "Dust Bowl refugee Gloria Mae Willard finds herself uprooted and working on a California peach orchard, where she tries to join the secret, all-boys baseball team that she's desperate to play on"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION SCHREMPPCopies Available at Rapid City Elementary
1 available in Fiction, Call number: J FICTION SCHREMPPTelgemeier, Raina
Summary: 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 herheart on meeting one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2016
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC TELGEMEIRCopies Available at Kalkaska County Library
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y GRAPHIC TELGEMEIERYang, Kelly
Summary: "After years of hard work, Mia Tang finally gets to go on vacation with her family--to China! A total dream come true. Mia can't wait to see all her cousins and grandparents again, especially her cousin Shen. As she roams around Beijing, witnessing some of the big changes China's going through, Mia thinks about the changes in her own life, like . . . 1. Lupe's taking classes at the high school!...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: J FICTION YANGLeavitt, Lindsey.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION LEAVITTSantiago, Chiori.
Summary: Two young Maidu Indian brothers sent to live at a government-run Indian residential school in California in the 1930s find a way to escape and return home for the summer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press 1998
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: F SANDavidson, Ash
Summary: A mother and midwife inadvertently threatens the fortunes and livelihoods of her family and their neighbors after noticing an increase in local miscarriages and believes it's caused by the pesticides used by the Sanderson Timber Company, her husband's employer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION DAVIDSONGrafton, Sue
Summary: "The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate--and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state's evidence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP MYSTERY GRAFTONChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: Struggling with a meager existence on a Prohibition-era farm in Southern California and devastated by the losses of four of her children to a wasting disease, Rosa flees with her surviving children after a shattering act of violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CHIAVERINIGrafton, Sue.
Summary: "T is for Trespass", dealing with the issues od identity theft, elder abuse, betrayal of trust, and the breakdown in the institutions charged with caring for the weak and the dependent, could not be more timely. It targets an all-too-real rip in the social fabric.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2007
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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY GRAFTONMallery, Susan
Summary: In the small town of Los Lobos, California, three women join a local indie bookstore's summer book club-devoted entirely to romance novels-and become life-long friends as they navigate the messiness of motherhood, second chances and becoming the person you've always wanted to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canary Street Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MALLERYGrafton, Sue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2005