los angeles (calif.)

Marisa Carneseca is hunting a mysterious hacker named Grendel when she learns that her team has been invited to an exclusive tournament for the wildly popular VR game Overworld. But Marisa soon realizes that the competition is rife with corruption and the stakes are life or death.

When Clara Shin takes a practical joke too far, she's sentenced to working in her dad's food truck, the KoBra, all summer with her uptight classmate, Rose Carver. As the summer progresses and she starts dating a boy named Hamlet and becoming invested in her father's business, Clara starts to examine her relationships to see if she can let go of the old, irresponsible Clara.

After going on a quest across Los Angeles together, Quentin, Vic, Nevaeh, and Mara, four very different foster children, realize that they have become a family.

Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives to play basketball at school and at Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles and is headed for the pros, but he is unaware of the many dangers--including his own past--that threaten his dream.

FBI agent Alex Cross is assigned to investigate a string of murders where the victims are Hollywood stars.

"In Jayd Jackson's world, the end is just the beginning... If only life could always be as sweet as Jayd's dreams. Mama, although back at home, is still not completely out of the woods, Nellie's boyfriend is showing his true colors more often than not all over Nellie's body, Mickey's relentless in her denying Nigel of any custodial rights to their daughter, and just when Jayd thought that she'd finally gotten over Rah he comes back to haunt her in the most personal way possible. With all of the drama going on around her Jayd barely has time to focus on her ever-increasing schoolwork let alone her spiritual development or her budding romance with Chase. In the end, Jayd pulls in all the right resources to handle business once and for all but will this be the end of the drama, as she knows it, or is it too good to be true?"--Back cover.

Ben and his family find themselves living among the poor and homeless when they leave El Paso for Los Angeles to look for Ben's father.

Fourteen-year-old Shawn wonders if he would be better off starting high school in his mother's neigborhood, away from Compton, but the idea of leaving all his friends, and the beautiful Marisol, is less appealing.

Rita Zapata's dream of escaping the mean streets of East Los Angeles come true when she attaches herself to Billy, an enigmatic, passionate fighter from Mexico who takes her along on his road to the top.