Frank Carlson Library

Twelve-year-old vampire Ashlee Lambert moves from New York to sunny Los Angeles, where she must deal with vicious cliques, awful sunburns, and a mystery of disappearing classmates that Ashlee must solve.

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.

Believing that she has been sent to Los Angeles by her librarian friend, Lucy Logan, to stop an evil plot by the wealthy Primo Cell, Molly Moon and her friend Roger, orphans with unusual hypnotic powers, find themselves in danger from an unsuspected source.

Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture poems...

Arturo and his family and friends share all kinds of experiences living in the barrio of East Los Angeles--reclaiming their names, playing basketball, championing the school librarian, and even starting their own gang.

"Twins Payton and Emma are off to Hollywood to star in a TV commercial but nothing goes as planned and it may take a twin switch or two to help things work out"--

While visiting a movie set in Hollywood, the Thea sisters set out in search of a thief who has stolen an important reel of film from the studio.

Lucy B. Parker is finally feeling settled in her new life in New York City with her friend and sister teen superstar Laurel Moses. But then Lucy's BFF explains that every sixth-grade girl has to have three crushes: local, long-distance, and celebrity and Lucy doesn't have any. Lucy goes to Los Angeles to join Laurel on the set of her new teen movie and Lucy may be the one causing crushes.

Chloe and her mother take a trip to Los Angeles, where Chloe is combining a guest appearance on the new season of Teen Design Diva, with a tour of the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, which is one of the colleges that she is considering, aware that her mother would like her to stay closer to Santa Cruz.

In August 1965, twelve-year-old Eden's older cousin from Mississippi comes to visit her in Los Angeles, and while the Watts Riots erupt around them, they continue their investigation of the disappearance of Winter's father ten years ago.