Sunday, April 12, 2009

Pretty Please

Hi folks, I could use some help. I'll even ask nicely: Please, would you be so kind as to rack your brain with me?

Can you think of any Young Adult or Middle Grade novels that take place in the Bay Area? I am thinking specifically East Bay (as in Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, San Leandro or the surrounding burbs), but San Francisco proper is fine too. 

Most California stories that I can think of take place in the great sunny Southern portion of the state, you know, in a split-level ranch home....

4 comments:

  1. what about rachel cohn's Gingerbread? that is a classic and totally captures the magic of the bay area. also, All Capone Does My Shirts is another one

    daphne

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  2. it's old, but Beverly Cleary's Sister of the Bride takes place there, I believe. Also Fifteen.

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  3. Thank you both! I'm excited to start reading :)

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  4. Cory Doctorow's *Little Brother* is set in San Fran. It's YA near future Spec-Fic, but it's good.

    And I can't remember, is Sherman Alexie's *Fly* set in the Bay Area or in Seattle. Someplace rainy.

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