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Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
88 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Earning money to help his family in 1906, ten-year-old newsboy Leo explores the hilly city's bustling business world and modern innovations before a massive earthquake and decimating fire change everything he has ever known.
2) Golden Gate
Author
Series
City spies volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Book scavenger volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
For twelve-year-old Emily, the best thing about moving to San Francisco is that it's the home city of her literary idol: Garrison Griswold, book publisher and creator of the online sensation Book Scavenger (a game where books are hidden in cities all over the country and clues to find them are revealed through puzzles).
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
viii, 243 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having left her parents' Missouri farm for good and trained to become a telegraph operator in Kansas City, teenage Rose moves out to San Francisco and joins the thousands of "bachelor girls" supporting themselves.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Book Scavenger volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Mr. Quisling is definitely up to something mysterious, and Emily and James are on high alert. First, there's the coded note he drops at a book event. Then Emily and James uncover a trail of encrypted messages in books by Mark Twain hidden through Book Scavenger. What is most suspicious is that each hidden book triggers an arson.