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Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Looks at the painful topic of rejection from a Christian perspective, counseling readers to release the self-destructive or controlling urges that often come from perceived rejection in order to embrace faith-based methods of dealing with the pain.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lonely Gingerbread Baby, having set out to find a friend, enters a bakery where he tries to talk to different cookies and other figures, but winds up leading a crowd back to his house on a chase similar to the one in the familiar tale.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Telling a white lie that makes his coworkers believe he has a loving family at home, a lonely man stuck in a thankless public-health job falls in love with a new coworker who challenges his secrets.
Andrew's day-to-day is a little grim, searching for next of kin for those who die alone. Thankfully, he has a loving family waiting for him when he gets home, to help wash the day's cares away. At least, that's what his coworkers believe. Andrew didn't...
5) Good Rosie!
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rosie is a good dog and a faithful companion to her owner, George. She likes taking walks with George and looking at the clouds together, but the closest she comes to another dog is when she encounters her reflection in her empty dog bowl, and sometimes that makes Rosie feel lonely. One day George takes Rosie to the dog park, but the park is full of dogs that Rosie doesn't know, which makes her feel lonelier than ever. When big, loud Maurice and small,...
6) Megabat
Author
Series
Megabat volume 1
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Daniel Misumi has just moved to a new house. It's big and old and far away from his friends and his life before. AND it's haunted... or is it? Megabat was just napping on a papaya one day when he was stuffed in a box and shipped halfway across the world. Now he's living in an old house far from home, feeling sorry for himself and accidentally scaring the people who live there. Daniel realizes it's not a ghost in his new house. It's a bat. And he...
Author
Series
Amgash novels volume 4
Language
English
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Description
"With her trademark spare, crystalline prose-a voice infused with "intimate, fragile, desperate humanness" (The Washington Post)-Elizabeth Strout once again turns her exquisitely-tuned eye to the inner workings of the human heart, this time following the indomitable heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton and Oh William! through the early days of the pandemic. As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and...
8) Little Brown
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Little Brown is grumpy and lonely at the dog park, until he decides to take matters into his own hands."--
9) La la la
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Conceived by Kate DiCamillo and featuring enchanting illustrations by Jaime Kim, this nearly wordless graphic story follows a little girl in search of a friend."La la la . . . la." A little girl stands alone and sings, but hears no response. Gathering her courage and her curiosity, she skips farther out into the world, singing away to the trees and the pond and the reeds but no song comes back to her. Day passes into night, and the girl dares to...
10) The blue castle
Author
Language
English
Description
Valancy Stirling, an inhibited twenty-nine-year-old spinster whose daydreams of the blue castle console her, undergoes a total personality change when a doctor tells her she has no more than one year to live. Oppressed by family and small-town prejudice, her apparently imminent death gives her the courage to assert herself and seek love.
11) Turtle Island
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A giant turtle's loneliness ends when a boatload of animals is shipwrecked and makes a temporary home on his shell. But when they decide to sail for home, will the turtle be alone once more?
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Friendship comes in the most unlikely of places when a lonely ghost meets a buoyant new companion. “Above a noisy family, On a crowded street, In the big city, In a dark lonely attic, Lived Ghost.” For Ghost, it can be pretty hard to make new friends. Some people are frightened, others don’t understand, most don’t seem to realize Ghost is even there. One day when a bright red balloon wanders Ghost’s way, the connection is instantaneous....
14) Pandora
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Pandora the fox lives alone in a junk yard. She's depressed and has no contact with the outside world. Then, she rescues a blue bird. As she nurses him back to health, the bird collects seeds and trinkets for her. One day, the bird grows strong enough to fly away, but the garden seeds he brought begin to transform Pandora's landscape"--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Little Robot finds a creative solution to his loneliness he gets straight to work on shaping the perfect companion out of metal, and affectionately names him Little Dog.
16) Cien cuyes
Author
Language
Español
Description
In a residential neighborhood of Lima overlooking the ocean, some well-to-do elderly people suffer the deterioration of their lives. Frasia, pressed by her economic needs, and who must work to raise her son Nico, has gradually become a vital companion to some of those older folks. If she could only manage to save up the money to buy ten guinea pigs, she could, as her uncle always told her, start a new life. Thus, every day she crosses the city by...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With his mother on the phone, his father checking e-mail, and his sister playing with her friends, a little boy feels as if he is all alone in the house, and no matter how badly he behaves, no one comes to stop him.
18) The ice garden
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Allergic to the sun, Jess sets out to explore the world she longs to be a part of by night. But what she discovers is a beautiful impossibility: a magical garden wrought of ice... Jess's imagination has always been her best friend. She's trained it to feel as real as it possibly can, especially in the stories she writes for Davie -- the young boy in a coma who is her only friend. But nothing is as real as the world she'll find. One night, tired of...
19) Bluebird
Author
Publisher
Schwartz and Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An exploration of the universal themes of loneliness, bullying, and friendship traces the poignant journey of a bluebird who makes the acquaintance of a young boy and ultimately risks his life to save the boy from harm.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Caspian lives alone in a lighthouse surrounded by the cold gray-blue sea, longing for a friend; so one day he puts a message in a bottle and floats it away in the sea--but the friend who finds it is someone completely unexpected.
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