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A sweeping rags-to-riches story about claiming the American Dream, following a family transformed by the Klondike Gold Rush.

Two childhood best friends reunite in L.A. the summer before senior year--but when one of them ends up starring on a teen reality dating show, their feelings for each other get complicated.

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.

Everything in Emma's life has always gone according to her very careful plans. But things take a turn toward the unexpected when she falls in love for the first time with the one person in the world who's off-limits--her new foster brother, the gorgeous and tormented Dylan McAndrews. Meanwhile, Emma's AP English class is reading Wuthering Heights, and she's been assigned to mimic Bronte's style in an epistolary format. With no one to confide in, she's got a lot to write about. Emma and Dylan try to constrain their romance to the page--for fear of threatening Dylan's chances of being adopted into another home. But the strength of first love is all-consuming, and they soon get enveloped in a passionate, secretive relationship with a very uncertain outcome.A Christy Ottaviano Book.

This anthology looks at the founding of twenty-one California missions, the controversial relationship between the missionaries and the neophytes, and the impact of Spanish architecture and daily lifestyles at the missions on California.

As if moving to California to live with her dad hasn't been hard enough, Alex Fitzgerald has a problem she can't talk about with anyone - nightmares!.

A collection of ten short stories that span the gap between the series, Circle C Beginnings and Circle C Adventures, which feature the adventures of independent tomboy Andrea Carter and her beloved horse, Taffy.

When cattle rustlers working in the San Joaquin Valley in the 1880s switch to horses and target the Circle C ranch, fourteen-year-old Andi turns to Macy, a homeless, ill-bred new student whose mistakes have endangered Andi but who may hold the key to saving Taffy's foal.

In 1880s Fresno, California, thirteen-year-old Andi Carter faces a difficult decision when she witnesses a devastating incident involving one of the town's most prominent families, who then threaten her if she tells the truth during the trial.