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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Description
While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists Nicholas Flamel and John Dee over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.
3) The Warlock
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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Fifteen-year-old Josh has chosen to side neither with his twin sister Sophie nor with the Alchemyst, Nicholas Flamel, but rather to fight alongside Dr. John Dee and the mysterious Virginia Dare, while the immortal Machiavelli and Billy the Kid follow the Elders' plans to set loose the monsters of Alcatraz on San Francisco and trigger the end of the humani race.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
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Budding costume designer Lola lives an extraordinary life in San Francisco with her two dads and beloved dog, dating a punk rocker, but when the Bell twins return to the house next door Lola, recalls both the friendship-ending fight with Calliope, a figure skater, and the childhood crush she had on Cricket.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father--despite...
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Book scavenger volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Just after twelve-year-old Emily and her family move to San Francisco, she teams up with new friend James to follow clues in an odd book they find, hoping to figure out its secrets before the men who attacked Emily's hero, publisher Garrison Griswold, solve the mystery or come after the friends.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Thanks to her Ye-Ye's epic scavenger hunts, thirteen-year-old Ruby Chu knows San Francisco like the back of her hand. But after his death, she feels lost, and it seems like everyone--from her best friends to her older sister--is abandoning her. After Ruby gets in major trouble at school, her parents decide she has to spend the summer at a local senior center, with her grandmother, Nai-Nai, and Nai-Nai's friends for company. When a new boy from Ruby's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
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After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.
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Series
Dragon warrior volume 1
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Twelve-year-old Jade Society member Faryn Liu may be destined to command the Jade Emperor's army of demon-fighting dragons, but first she must complete a daring quest across San Francisco's Chinatown before the Lunar New Year.
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Series
Suitehearts volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"... a feel-good light romance about two 13-year-old cousins and their first solo attempts at creating enchanted love connections.--"Provided by publisher.
11) Wish: a novel
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Series
Wish series (Alexandra Bullen) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
After her vivacious twin sister dies, a shy teenaged girl moves with her parents to San Francisco, where she meets a magical seamstress who grants her one wish.
13) Sweet venom
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Series
Medusa girls volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Description
As monsters walk the streets of San Francisco, unseen by humans, three teenaged descendants of Medusa, the once-beautiful gorgon maligned in Greek mythology, must reunite and embrace their fates.
14) Possess
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Enlisted to help in dangerous cases of demonic possession, a teenaged exorcist discovers a race of part-demons intent on raising their forefathers to the earth in human form.
15) Golden Gate
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Series
City spies volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Rebel surfer-turned-field ops specialist Sydney finds herself in hot water while undercover on a marine research vessel, while her City Spies teammates investigate a suspected mole.
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Series
Wish series (Suzanne Nelson) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Tessa loves working at the trendy food truck her aunt runs in their native San Francisco. Serving yummy BLTs to her classmates after school, Tessa feels like she's living the dream. Then the dream turns into a nightmare. Popular, arrogant Asher starts working at the truck! He can't make a snadwich to save his life, and he's frustratingly cute. Bute when the city's big food-truck festival is canceled, the future of the truck is suddenly at stake....
18) Pop's bridge
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Robert and his friend Charlie are proud of their fathers, who are working on the construction of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
Author
Series
Front desk volume 5
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Mia Tang is at the top of her game! She's spending winter break with Mom, Lupe, Jason, and Hank in San Francisco's Chinatown! Rich with history and hilarious aunties and uncles, it's the place to find a great story--one she hopes to publish while attending journalism camp at the Tribune. But this trip has as many bumps as the hills of San Francisco... 1. Mia's camp is full of older kids, with famous relatives, fancy laptops, and major connections!...
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Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume 12
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Flat Stanley is taking over the world, one city at a time! In this fantastic twelfth installment in the renowned Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures chapter book series, the Lambchop family is ready to explore San Francisco, California! Don’t miss any of Flat Stanley’s worldwide adventures!
Not only will kids love going on a fun adventure with Stanley, this installment of the Worldwide Adventures series has fun, fascinating facts about San...