Pinch Hit
Trevor, an actor in a major film who lives in a Bel Aire mansion, and Sam, a boy who enjoys baseball and barely has enough to survive on, each have very different lives but look exactly alike.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 83
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: brothers, twins, identity (psychology), baseball, actors, los angeles (calif.) [X], juvenile fiction / social issues / friendship, juvenile fiction / sports & recreation / baseball & softball, juvenile fiction / family / adoption, family life [X], actors and actresses
The Loud Silence Of Francine Green
In 1949, thirteen-year-old Francine goes to Catholic school in Los Angeles where she becomes best friends with a girl who questions authority and is frequently punished by the nuns, causing Francine to question her own values.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: conformity, catholic schools, best friends, friendship, family, los angeles (calif.) [X], united states, families, school stories, schools, family life [X], historical fiction, historical fiction
My Life As A Stuntboy
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.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 100
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: stunt performers, motion pictures, monkeys as pets, schools, families, los angeles (calif.) [X], children's art, family life [X]
The Other Life
More than three years after a rabies mutation drove survivors into underground bunkers, fifteen-year-old Sherry teams up with seventeen-year-old Joshua, who takes her to Safe Haven and helps rescue her family while fending off part-human, part-beast creatures known as Weepers.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570
Love In The Time Of Global Warming
After the Earth Shaker, a massive quake that left her home city of Los Angeles destroyed in all but name, Pen sets out into a wasted, post-apocalyptic Earth, guided by only a batted copy of Homer's "Odyssey.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: survival skills, family life [X], love stories, voyages and travels, earthquakes, los angeles (calif.) [X], family, survival, families, love, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, castaways, romance fiction, science fiction
Winter Moon
Los Angeles police officer Jack McGarvey, badly wounded in a shoot-out, decides to move his family to a Montana ranch that has been willed to him by the father of his former partner, only to have his son Toby become the target of the Givers, creatures from another dimension who want control of the child for their own evil purposes.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Struck
After a major earthquake devastates Los Angeles, seventeen-year-old Mia wants only to take care of her younger brother and traumatized mother, but two fanatical doomsday cults vie for her powers, drawn from the multiple lightning strikes she has experienced.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: supernatural, cults, lightning, thunderstorms, brothers and sisters, los angeles (calif.) [X], family life [X], post traumatic stress syndrome, natural disasters, mothers and daughters
For What It's Worth
Living in Los Angeles' Laurel Canyon neighborhood, fourteen-year-old Quinn's life has been consumed by music and the famous musicians who live nearby, but in 1971, his first girlfriend, a substitute teacher, and a draft dodger help open his eyes about the Vietnam War.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 920
subjects: rock music, musicians, dating (social customs), family life [X], teachers, los angeles (calif.) [X]
Lovetorn
Having just moved from India to Los Angeles for two years, sixteen-year-old Shalini struggles to fit in at school and to keep house for her clinically-depressed mother, but the real challenge comes when she begins falling in love with an American boy despite being engaged since the age of three.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: moving, household, east indians, arranged marriage, families, los angeles (calif.) [X], family life [X], love
My Life As A Joke
"Derek Fallon discovers all the angst that comes with being twelve--he just wants to feel grown up, but life gets in the way with a series of mishaps that make him look like a baby"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 72
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840
subjects: maturation (psychology), friendship, middle schools, families, children's art, los angeles (calif.) [X], schools, family life [X], school stories, children
There Will Come A Time
Overwhelmed by grief and guilt after his twin sister Grace's accidental death, seventeen-year-old Mark Santos is persuaded by his best friend to complete the "bucket list" from Grace's journal.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 610
subjects: filipino americans, diaries, family life [X], brothers and sisters, twins, los angeles (calif.) [X]
My Life As A Gamer
Derek Fallon gets the chance of a lifetime when he is asked to test software for new video games, but he soon discovers that his dream job isn't all it's cracked up to be.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 72
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: schools, families, video games, tutors and tutoring, middle schools, los angeles (calif.) [X], family life [X]
My Life As A Ninja
"Derek Fallon has expanded his taste in cartoons to the world of manga and anime.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 53
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: ninja, comic books, strips, etc, graffiti, theater, middle schools, schools, family life [X], school stories, los angeles (calif.) [X], cartoons and comics
It All Comes Down To This
"In the summer of 1965, Sophie's family becomes the first African Americans to move into their upper middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 35
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: families, african americans, race relations, riots, family life [X], los angeles (calif.) [X], juvenile fiction / people & places / united states / african american, juvenile fiction / social issues / prejudice & racism, juvenile fiction / historical / united states / 20th century, juvenile fiction / family / general (see also headings under social issues), juvenile fiction / social issues / friendship, juvenile fiction / girls & women, juvenile fiction / lifestyles / city & town life, electronic books, electronic books
Don't Cosplay With My Heart
Edan Kupferman's life is coming apart: her father is being "sequestered" because the company he works for in Hollywood is in legal trouble, her best friend is in Japan for the summer, and the boy she has a crush on is just plain confusing, so she escapes into the world of comics, and her favorite character, Gargantua--but when Kirk, a boy from her high school, gets her into the sold out ComicCon it starts to look like she might, with a little help, be able to take control of her life after all.
FIC
year:
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: comic books, strips, etc, comic strip characters, characters and characteristics, teenage girls, interpersonal relations, families, cartoons and comics, characters in literature, emotional problems, family life [X], los angeles (calif.) [X]