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 [X], los angeles (calif.) [X], united states, families, school stories, schools, family life [X], historical fiction, historical fiction
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 [X], 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: