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c2013., Ages 10-15, Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: Y CHO Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Al Capone at Alcatraz Volume: #3Summary Note: "Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, faces new challenges when his father is promoted to Associate Warden"--
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[2004], Ages 10-15, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: Y CHO Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Series Title: Al Capone at Alcatraz Volume: #1Summary Note: A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
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c2009., Ages 10-15, Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: Y CHO Availability:1 of 1 At Your Libraryrelated website Series Title: Al Capone at Alcatraz Volume: #2Summary Note: Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose.
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[2018], Age 9-13, Wendy Lamb Books Call No: Y CHO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Al Capone at Alcatraz Volume: #4Summary Note: Moose has his hands full during the summer of 1936 watching his autistic sister, Natalie, and the warden's daughter, Piper, and trying to get on a baseball team by proving he knows Al Capone.
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By Ames, Ruth©2011, ©2012., Age 8-12, Scholastic Call No: Y POI Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Poison apple books. Volume: #8Summary Note: 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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2012., Age: 8-14, Scholastic Call No: J AUD PAT Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Dear AmericaSummary Note: In the "wild west" of an 1880s California gold-mining town, Angeline investigates the supposed murder of her father, a famous criminal lawyer, who she and her mother are certain is still alive. Includes historical notes and instructions for making a mask from muslin.
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c2007., Ages 3-6, American Girl Call No: YS AME Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the mid-1970s, Julie decides to run for student body president after being sent to detention unfairly and comes to find that many of her classmates do not like her prospective vice president, Joy, because she is deaf.
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-- City tossed & broken2013., 4.7; 5-8, Scholastic Call No: YS DEA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Dear AmericaSummary Note: It is 1906, and when her family is cheated out of their tavern, fourteen-year-old Minnie Bonner is forced to become a maid to the Sump family, who are moving to San Francisco--three weeks before the great earthquake.
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-- Do not expect magicc2011., Young Adult, Delacorte Press Call No: YA MCC Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Upon her mother's death, fifteen-year-old Delaney Collins must move to California to live with a father she barely knows, and discovers not only that he is a fairy "godmother", but she may be one, as well.
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By Avi, 1937-2020., Ages 9-13, Candlewick Press Call No: Y AVI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Victoria (Tory) Blaisdell longs to live a life as adventurous and independent as that of her heroine, Jane Eyre. When Tory's father loses his job and decides to seek a share of the newly discovered gold in California, Tory stows away on the westbound ship carrying her father and younger brother, Jacob. Though San Francisco is mud-caked, frenzied, and full of wild and dangerous men, Tory quickly finds friends and independence - until her father leaves for the gold fields and the care of Jacob falls to her. Then Jacob vanishes, kidnapped, perhaps hidden among the hundreds of ships - called Rotten Row - that have been abandoned in the bay. If he is there, Tory must find him in a treacherous search. Tory comes close to losing everything in her quest for her own and her brother's freedom.
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c2006., Adult, Ballantine Books Call No: FIC KEL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Psychologist Alex Delaware and L.A.P.D. detective Milo Sturgis investigate the case of two young acting students whose disappearance and claims of abduction are revealed to be a hoax; but then one of the two is found murdered while the other vanishes for real.
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-- San Francisco earthquake, 1906c2012., Ages 3-6; Ages 7-10, Scholastic Call No: G TAR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: I survivedSummary Note: Ten-year-old Leo loves being a newsboy in San Francisco --but early one spring morning in 1906 Leo's world is shaken, when he finds himself stranded in the middle of San Francisco as it crumbles and burns to the ground.
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c2007., Ages 3-6, American Girl Call No: YS AME Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Julie and Ivy try to come up with a unique way to educate the public on the region's endangered eagles and raise enough money to help the wildlife rescue center release two injured eagles back into the wild.
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c2007., 4.8; Ages 3-6, American Girl Call No: YS AME Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1974 at her new San Francisco school, nine-year-old Julie does not want to tell her class about her parents' divorce, or to tell her sister about messing up her school assignment, but when she breaks her finger playing basketball and her whole family rallies around her, she realizes the importance of telling the truth.
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c2007., Ages 3-6, American Girl Call No: YS AME Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Julie and her cousins set out on an old-fashioned wagon train to celebrate the Bicentennial, and Julie is unprepared for the challenges of prairie life, but when she and her cousins have a chance to make history, Julie rises to the challenge.
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By Jay, Staceyc2011., Young Adult, Delacorte Press Call No: YA JAY Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: For seven hundred years, the souls of Romeo and Juliet have repeatedly inhabited the bodies of newly deceased people to battle to the death as sworn enemies, until they meet for the last time as two Southern California high school students.
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2022., 008-012, Feiwel and Friends Call No: G APP Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself--and about the humans who hope to save her"--
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2012., HarperCollins Call No: Y GRE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to view Summary Note: "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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2009., Simon & Schuster Call No: FIC DEA Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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By Jay, Staceyc2012., Young Adult, Delacorte Press Call No: YA JAY Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In modern-day California Romeo is offered one last chance to redeem himself by switching sides and becoming an Ambassador--if he can prove himself worthy by making Juliet, as Ariel, love him in a reality with a different past than his own.