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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Viewed with suspicion in the aftermath of a murder, Kya Clark, who has survived alone for years in a marsh near the North Carolina coast, becomes targeted by unthinkable forces.
"For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. But Kya is...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
You will be scared. But you won t know why In this deeply suspenseful and irresistibly unnerving debut novel, a man and his girlfriend are on their way to a secluded farm. What follows is a twisted unraveling and an unforgettable ending that will haunt you long after the last page is turned. Jake and a woman known only as The Girlfriend are taking a long drive to meet his parents at their secluded farm. But when Jake takes a sudden detour, leaving...
4) Gus
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
While enjoying his solitary trek through the barnyard, Gus the gosling finds three small eggs that could possibly hold his perfect companions inside.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Viewed with suspicion in the aftermath of a murder, Kya Clark, who has survived alone for years in a marsh near the North Carolina coast, becomes targeted by unthinkable forces.
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So, in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Text and illustrations describe some of the special places that one can go to be quiet and alone and to imagine, such as a woods, a seashore, a library, or inside oneself.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A boy enjoys living quietly by himself at The End of the World until Mr. Constantine Shimmer, "Professional Visionary," builds an inn and an amusement park, demanding that tourists come and have "Fun Without End!"
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Grandmother wants so badly to be left alone to finish the knitting for her grandchildren that she leaves her tiny home and her big family to journey to the moon and beyond to find peace and quiet to finish her knitting.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A celebration of the joy and comfort to be found in alone time and the joy and comfort that a friend can bring. Sometimes it’s nice to be alone. Just you, eating a cookie, alone. But what if a friend drops in? In Amy Hest and Philip C. Stead’s accomplished hands, anyone can become a potential friend—and that includes horses, whales, crocodiles, and even dinosaurs. The book’s effortless lilt and joyous illustrations are reminiscent of...
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"For years it's been Andy Green's job to stump students nationwide by coming up with the wrong answers for their multiple-choice tests. Recently, however, his own life has become overwhelmed by wrong choices. When a love affair is mysteriously ended by a Post-it note and followed up by a random street assault, Andy locks himself in his Hell's Kitchen apartment. In solitude, he thinks, he might be able to get a grip on his life. But when he is forced...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the mountains of Peru, friends Hector the bear and Hummingbird the hummingbird spend most of their time together, doing the same things, and Hector has had just about enough of it--or has he? Includes a list of animals hidden in the illustrations.
16) Alone together
Author
Series
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Goose, Bear, and Fox are friends through thick and thin.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"England, 1970. On the one-year anniversary of the Harrington family's darkest night, their beautiful London home goes up in flames. Mrs. Harrington, the two children, and live-in nanny Rita relocate to Foxcote Manor, ostensibly to recuperate. But the creeping forest, where lost things have a way of coming back, is not as restful as it seems. When thirteen-year-old Hera discovers a baby girl abandoned just beyond their garden gate, this tiniest, most...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Nothing ever changes at Wauregan." That mystique is the tradition of the idyllic island colony off the shore of Long Island, the comforting tradition that its summer dwellers have lived by for over half a century. But in the summer of 1948, after a world war has claimed countless men - even those who came home - the time has come to deal with history's indelible scars. Helen Wadsworth's husband, Arthur, was declared missing in action during an OSS...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In a radical departure from her urban life, Ann Turner buys a piece of remote Vermont land and sets up a tent home in the forest. In an effort to escape an unending string of personal disasters in Boston and a desire to leave behind a world she sees as increasingly defined by consumerism, hypocrisy, and division, she hopes to find a kind of peace in this new life. As she writes in her journal, “Theres got to be a more honest, less divided way to...
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Amanda Coplin and Chris Bohjalian, In Wilderness is a suspenseful and literary love story--a daring and original novel about our fierce need for companionship and our enduring will to survive. In the winter of 1966, Katherine Reid receives a shattering diagnosis. Debilitated by a terminal and painful illness, Katherine moves to an isolated cabin deep in Georgia's Appalachian Mountains. There, with little more than a sleeping bag,...
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