california

Josie wants to take over her family's business, Hazeldine Honey, but is lying to her mother and best friend about starting college in the fall, and secretly dating Ezra, the grandson of her mother's nemesis.

Seventeen-year-old Mari, a self-proclaimed photography nerd yearning to attend Yale, finds herself, and her relationship with her parents, transformed when she time travels to 1967 and falls in love.

"Devin's team thinks she is taking too much credit for their winning streak and she must keep the team together"--Provided by publisher.

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

"Devin, a seventh-grader and co-captain of the soccer team, is worried that her friends' issues will keep them from being 'in the zone' while playing"--OCLC.

"The road through the wall reveals the hatreds and crimes hidden behind a California suburb's picture-perfect facades. Hangsaman is a psychological thriller in which a college student's loneliness takes a sinister turn. In the Bird's nest, a young office worker's multiple personalities for predominance. And in the Sundial, ... an eccentric clan sheltering at home makes increasingly deranged preparations for the apocalypse"--Back of cover of dust jacket.

High school senior Jayd Jackson has defeated her grandmother's worst and closest enemy, but that doesn't mean her life is getting easier--not with all the drama her friends create--like Mickey and G, who are on the run, or like her evil neighbor, Esmeralda, who just won't rest in peace.

Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.

Amparo relates the story of her mother's family and their life in Mexico and then their new life in California.

Seventeen-year-old CJ Katsuyama's family sold their flower shop to a white man for next to nothing while they were interned during World War II. Thirty years later, the family bought the store back from that family, the McAllisters, who had prospered in the interim. Now the shop is in financial trouble and CJ's mother works for McAllister Venture Capital. CJ's mother pushes CJ to make something of her life, but CJ only seems to excel at arranging flowers, and she feels aimless. When secrets about the McAllister patriarch come to light, CJ and a group of student activists find something to rally behind, though it causes friction in the community and between CJ and her mother.