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Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Just before her graduation from La Jolla's exclusive Freiburg Academy, valedictorian and scholarship student Kylie Flores inadvertently ends up in Ensenada, Mexico, with Max, one of the most popular boys in school, where, in twenty-four jam-packed hours, their lives dramatically change.
6) Going home
Author
Series
Skye's West volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"It is 1812, six years after he [Barnaby Sky] deserted the Royal Navy, and Skye has a chance to return to England, clear his name, and take up employment with the Hudson's Bay Company. But "Mister Skye," as he insists on being called, is as much a magnet for trouble as he is a legend among mountain men, and this opportunity of his life begins to disintegrate almost from the moment it is presented to him." -- Jacket.
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
The search for a stolen boat leads the Hardy brothers to Mexico where they become involved with a band of Indians and a strange smuggling operation.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
A confirmed bachelor falls for and marries a beautiful woman he's just met. On their honeymoon, he realizes he's made a huge mistake, and now wants to turn his nightmare into a dream come true, when he meets his real soulmate on the trip.
Eddie is a confirmed bachelor who is forty and owns a sporting-goods store. After watching his ex-fiancé walk down the aisle, he meets Lila who is an environmental researcher. Lila seems too good to be true. Pressured...
10) Big Blue
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
A young girl's dream to swim with a blue whale may finally come true when her mother, a writer, arranges for them to accompany her friends who are marine biologists on a research trip to Mexico.
14) Untamed shore
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Baja California, 1979. Viridiana spends her days watching the dead sharks piled beside the seashore, as the fishermen pull their nets. There is nothing else to do, nothing else to watch, under the harsh sun. She's bored. Terribly bored. Yet her head is filled with dreams of Hollywood films, of romance, of a future beyond the drab town where her only option is to marry and have children. Three wealthy American tourists arrive for the summer, and Viridiana...
15) Silver wings
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 123
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
As the co-pilot of a motor glider that makes an emergency landing in an area of the Baja peninsula inhabited by bandits, smugglers, scorpions, and poisonous snakes, the reader makes choices to determine the outcome of the story.
17) La perla negra
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1969
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil who legend says is the pearl's owner.
Author
Series
Second L. A. quartet volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
January, 1942. War has been declared and the Japanese internment is in full swing. Los Angeles is gripped by war fever and racial hatred. Sergeant Dudley Smith of the Los Angeles Police Department is now Army Captain Smith and a budding war profiteer. He's shacked up with Claire De Haven in Baja, Mexico, and spends his time sniffing out fifth column elements and hunting down a missing Japanese Naval Attache. Hideo Ashida is cashing LAPD paychecks...
19) Only to sleep
Author
Series
Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Lawrence Osborne brings one of literature's most enduring detectives back to life - as Private Investigator Philip Marlowe returns for one last adventure. The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. And Philip Marlowe - now in his seventy-second year - is living out his retirement in the terrace bar of the La Fonda hotel. Sipping margaritas, playing cards, his silver-tipped cane at the ready. When in saunter two men dressed like undertakers, with...
20) Beautiful wave
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Nicole is a shy New York City high school student still mourning the drowning death of her beloved dad. When Nicole is sent to California to spend the summer with the free-spirited grandmother she barely knows, she'll learn a shocking family secret she yearns to understand. Now on a quest to Baja Mexico, Nicole will discover friendship, romance, the thrill of surfing, and a link to her late father that could change her life forever.