Frank Carlson Library

Brainy twelve-year-old Bart attracts little attention at his new middle school near Hollywood, California, but whenever he can get around his gym-coach father, he secretly hunts electricity-guzzling aliens.

When Sierra falls for Caleb, a boy who made a terrible mistake years before, she is determined to help him find forgiveness, despite the disapproval and suspicions they meet.

Traces the story of a boy who moves across the country to rural northern California, where his efforts to adjust are challenged by a fast-moving firestorm that places family homes and lives at risk.

The Hardy brothers investigate injuries to students at the Rising Phoenix Martial Arts Center to see if they are connected and if someone at the school is to blame.

Nine-year-old Estella Garcia dreams of being a movie star when she grows up, but she is nervous about attending her very first sleepover party at the home of the new fourth-grader, Brittany, especially as the theme is "art," which is not really her thing--so she turns to her three best friends, The Worry Warriors, to help her overcome her anxiety.

"Devin and the rest of the team must figure out who is trying to sabotage them before the playoffs start"--

Fifth-grader Cleo Edison Oliver is full of money-making ideas, and her fifth-grade Passion Project is no different--but things get more complicated when she has to keep her business running, be a good listener when her best friend needs her, and deal with the bully teasing her about being adopted at the same time.

In 1874, Andi, the youngest of five children growing up on a California ranch, wants a horse of her own for her sixth birthday but her family believes her pony, Coco, is just right until Andi is older. Includes historical notes.

Living in a cottage on her uncle's southern California avocado ranch since her parent's messy divorce, fifteen-year-old Pearl Dewitt meets and falls in love with an illegal migrant worker, and is trapped with him when wildfires approach his makeshift forest home.

A timely young adult novel about a teenage girl who sues her anti-vaccination parents after she contracts a disease that incurs devastating consequences. After contracting measles with devastating consequences, sixteen-year-old Juniper Jade sues her anti-vaccination parents, hoping she can have a more normal life.