los angeles (calif.)

A seventeen-year-old Moldovan girl whose parents have been killed is brought to the United States to work as a slave for a family in Los Angeles.

Drama ensues when the girls discover they all have a crush on the same guy, and while Madison Parker is punished with community service hours for her admission to stealing, newcomer Kate Hayes is reveling in her song's overnight success, and aspiring actress Cameron Curtis struggles to step out from her famous mother's shadow.

During the pilot year of a Los Angeles school system integration program, two sixth grade boys, one black, one white, become best friends as they learn to cope with everything from first crushes and playground politics to the loss of loved ones and racial prejudice in the 1970s.

At the age of 8, Reyna Grande made the dangerous and illegal trek across the border from Mexico to the United States, and discovered that the American Dream is much more complicated that it seemed.

God works miracles in the lives of two people even in the midst of tragedy when driven businessman Eric Michaels loses his memory after being injured in the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and is mistaken for fireman Jamie Bryan, a joyful Christian husband and father who was killed in the collapse of the towers.

Juggling the pressures of college applications and friendships, neurotic overachiever Jules's plans for her senior year are thrown off track when she starts dating the new guy at school and finds herself at the center of a rivalry between her high school's newspaper and its just-launched TV news show.

In ultra-cool Los Angeles, can two freshman girls remain best friends despite a tidal wave of high school drama, or does growing up mean leaving some friends behind?.

"Shadowhunter Emma Carstairs and her parabatai Julian Blackthorn race to stop a demonic plot that threatens Los Angeles"--Provided by publisher.

Sixteen-year old Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death, must move from Chicago to "The Valley," with a new stepfamily but no new friends until an anonymous fellow student emails and offers to help her navigate the school's treacherous social waters.

Cash, cars, boats, houses Tony Stark has got it all. The only thing that could ruin his day? If every single one of his IRON MAN armors were stolen, and then turned against him. Join us for a nail-biting, strapped-to-your-seat adventure as Tony battles his greatest creations, and tries to discover who could (gasp) OUTSMART him!?!? Spotlight is a division of ABDO Group. Grades 2-6.