Cultural Region/Northern California
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Paperquake: A Puzzle
$15.95 Add to cartViolet’s paralyzing fear of the San Francisco earthquakes changes when her family renovates an old building. An aftershock dislodges a letter addressed in 1906 to Baby V–and Violet is certain the dis… [more below]
- Series: Time Travel Mysteries
- Author: Reiss, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 01 2002
- ISBN10: 015216782X
- Language: English
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The San Francisco Splash
$6.99 Add to cartTime for a seventh-inning stretch! The San Francisco Splash is book #7 in our early chapter book mystery series, where each book is set in a different American ballpark!
Splash! A hit soars over the- Series: Ballpark Mysteries #7
- Author: Kelly, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 28 2013
- ISBN10: 030797779X
- Language: English
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San Francisco, Baby!
$14.99 Add to cartTwo babies go on two big-city adventures, and there are so many exciting sights to see In New York, Baby , Times Square, Broadway, Central Park, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art number among the to… [more below]
- Series: Baby!
- Author: Jenkins, Ward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1452106207
- Language: English
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City by the Bay: A Magical Journey Around San Francisco
$8.99 Add to cartThe Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, Union Square, Chinatown–these are just a sampling of the San Francisco landmarks featured in this magical journey around the fabled city by the bay. Each famous lo… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Tricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0811820122
- Language: English
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Landed
$19.99 Read moreSun is ready to leave his village in China for America, the
place known as Gum Saan, Gold Mountain. His father warns
him, though, that passage will not be easy. Because of the 1882
Chinese Exclusion Act,- Author: Lee, Milly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0374343144
- Language: English
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Who Pooped in the Cascades?: Scat and Tracks for Kids
$11.95 Add to cart- Series: Who Pooped in the Park?
- Author: Robson, Gary D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1560373628
- Language: English
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The Haunted Lighthouse
$9.99 Read moreAn infamous prison may hold a secret only the Code Busters can uncover.
Cody, Quinn, Luke, and M.E. may all have different talents, but they share one thing in common: they love playing around with co
- Series: Code Busters Club #2
- Author: Warner, Penny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1606844555
- Language: English
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Yao Bai and the Egg Pirates
$16.99 Add to cart2020 Storytelling World Resource Award Honoree
Inspired by the 1863 Egg War and the mad rush for murre eggs on the Farallon Islands near San Francisco, Yao Bai and the Egg Pirates is a high-seas adven
- Author: Myers, Tim J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1513261444
- Language: English
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When You Look Out the Window: How Phyllis Lyon and del Martin Built a Community
$15.95 Read moreWhen You Look Out the Window tells the story of Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, one of San Francisco’s most well-known and politically active lesbian couples.
Describing the view from Phyllis and Del’s- Author: Pitman, Gayle E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1433827360
- Language: English
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The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights (National Book Award Finalist)
$15.99 Add to cartAn astonishing World War II military story of civil rights from New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve Sheinkin.
A National Book Award Finalist
A YALSA Award for Excellence- Author: Sheinkin, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1250073499
- Language: English
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S Is for San Francisco
$19.95 Add to cartS is for San Francisco takes you on an A-B-C tour of San Francisco’s most popular icons including the Ferry Building, cable cars, seals on Pier 39, Golden Gate Park and twenty-one other places and thi… [more below]
- Series: Alphabet Cities
- Author: Kernahan, Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1942402341
- Language: English
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The Creaky Knees Guide Northern California, 2nd Edition: The 80 Best Easy Hikes
$19.95 Read moreExplore the beauty of Northern California’s natural landscape with this guide to 80 of the best easy-to-walk day hikes located throughout Northern California.
From hikes just outside of San Francisco- Series: Creaky Knees
- Author: Brown, Ann Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1632173581
- Language: English
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Mount Shasta
$24.99 Read moreFor thousands of years, native inhabitants revered this snowcapped volcano, its craggy peaks, thick forests, crystal waters, and abundant wildlife. “Lonely as god and white as a winter moon, Mount Sha… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Greb Mazariegos, Darla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 073855572X
- Language: English
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San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury
$24.99 Add to cartAt the turn of the 20th century, the Haight-Ashbury first gained prominence as the gateway to Golden Gate Park; six decades later, it would anchor the worldwide cultural revolution that blossomed in t… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Powell Cohen, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0738559946
- Language: English
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Gay and Lesbian San Francisco
$24.99 Add to cartIn recent years, San Francisco has been synonymous with gay and lesbian pride, and the various achievements of the gay and lesbian community are personified in the city by the bay. The tumultuous and … [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Lipsky, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 20 2006
- ISBN10: 0738531383
- Language: English
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Woodland
$31.99 Add to cartThe images in this book document the intertwining of country and city in the character of Woodland, California, since the town’s birth in 1853. The flat, rich land of the Great Central Valley, along w… [more below]
- Author: Datel, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: January 09 2012
- ISBN10: 1531659837
- Language: English
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Growing Up in San Francisco: More Boomer Memories from Playland to Candlestick Park
$21.99 Add to cartNewcomers and visitors can still enjoy iconic San Francisco with activities like riding a cable car or taking in the view from Twin Peaks. But San Franciscans cherish memories of a place quite differe… [more below]
- Series: American Chronicles
- Author: Dunnigan, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 17 2016
- ISBN10: 1467135704
- Language: English
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Coastal Gardening in the Pacific Northwest: From Northern California to British Columbia
$22.95 Add to cartCoastal Gardening. It has challenges that no other type of gardening can boast: Salt, wind, and sand to name a few. This book combines necessary information about Pacific Northwest coastal gardening a… [more below]
- Author: Albright, Carla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: February 28 2007
- ISBN10: 158979317X
- Language: English
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American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods
$15.00 Add to cartThe mystery of Chinatown as foreign yet familiar has been long established in the American imagination. Visitors come to expect this, looking for “something different” in its narrow lanes and fish mar… [more below]
- Author: Tsui, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1416557245
- Language: English
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Homeland
$20.99 Add to cartIn Cory Doctorow’s wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco–an experience th
- Series: Little Brother #2
- Author: Doctorow, Cory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 0765333708
- Language: English
