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Coach Carter: Former Richmond High School basketball star Ken Carter returns to his alma mater as their coach and immediately sets down high standards of accountability that are soon challenged by the players, the school, and the community.

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.

Traces the author's experiences as an illegal child immigrant, describing her father's violent alcoholism, her efforts to obtain a higher education, and the inspiration of Latina authors.

Briefly chronicles the history of the Los Angeles Lakers, and discusses the basketball team's popularity, significant players and coaches, team victories, and other related topics.

African-American high school junior Jayd Jackson tries to juggle conflict with her ex-boyfriend and his current girlfriend while starting a new relationship with a half-Jewish white boy.

African-American high school junior Jayd Jackson sees trouble brewing when her white classmates grow hostile over her friend Nellie running for homecoming princess.

Ten-year-old Shelby Bloom's family has just moved from Ohio to Los Angeles where she will be forced to share a room with her eleven-year-old sister Lila (ugh!), and try and make friends in her new school (hopeless, especially for a girl who likes to tell jokes)--but Ajay, the boy across the street has a dog and likes to laugh, and two horse-loving girls (who have never actually ridden a horse) invite her to the local riding stables, and suddenly Los Angeles does not seem so bad after all.

"Susan Orlean reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution--our libraries"--.

"Reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, the 1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire, while exploring the . . . role that libraries play in modern American culture"--OCLC.

Edan Kupferman's life is coming apart: her father is being "sequestered" because the company he works for in Hollywood is in legal trouble, her best friend is in Japan for the summer, and the boy she has a crush on is just plain confusing, so she escapes into the world of comics, and her favorite character, Gargantua--but when Kirk, a boy from her high school, gets her into the sold out ComicCon it starts to look like she might, with a little help, be able to take control of her life after all.