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Third grader EllRay is faced with a problem when his plan to bring his dad's crystals to school in order to impress his classmates does not go accordingly.

Eight-year-old EllRay Jakes's attempts to defend himself against the class bully always end up getting him in trouble, but he promises to do his best when his dad offers to take him to Disneyland if he can be good for an entire week--which may be a few days too long.

With their parents away at the 1989 World Series, fourteen-year-old Franny, her younger brother, and their cousin try to cope with the frightening events following an earthquake that destroys their home on Loma Prieta mountain.

Sixth-grader Annabelle spends autumn coping with competing groups of friends at school, her mother's pre-wedding stress, learning to get along with a cute stepbrother-to-be, and such momentous events as wearing her first bra and learning to shave her legs.

The last remaining orange tree on a Southern California street brings together neighbors of all ages as they face their problems and anxieties, including the possibility that a mysterious stranger is a threat to their tree.

Steve "Sneeze" Wyatt takes half of his classes at the high school, where he attracts the attention of a bully on the varsity golf team, while at middle school all of his friends seem to be falling in love--including Sneeze, himself.

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.

As one of America's most notorious prisons, Alcatraz has been a significant part of California's history for over 155 years.

After she is kicked out of school and her family moves to a new city, Doreen vows to make her new middle school work for her.

In 1976, Ivy must choose between participating in a gymnastics tournament and attending a family reunion, and fears she will wind up disappointing everyone, no matter what she decides to do.

When his father is arrested for insider trading and his family loses all their money, Brett Gerson takes a job as an assistant to a elderly pool cleaner in his former wealthy California neighborhood and learns some valuable life lessons.

When sixteen-year-old Dulcie's father dies, her mother makes a decision to move them to California, where Dulcie makes an equally radical decision to steal her dad's old truck and head back home.

A story told in the alternating voices of a seventeen-year-old racist and a thirteen-year-old boy cast out of his home for being gay, whose violent encounter with each other has a lasting impact on their futures.

Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.

Sixteen-year-old Mina is forced to take a class to help her decide whether or not to become a vampire like her parents which means that she faces a choice between her best friend and her current crush versus potential new friends and possible boyfriends in her vampire class.