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Author
Publisher
Price Stern Sloan
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jack the wolf does not mind living alone, but he does get lonely on long winter nights. Then one day Walter the dormouse comes for a visit. Walter is fun to be around, but he certainly does have some annoying habits! Can Jack get over them, or will this be the end of their friendship?
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.
83) Place hand here
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A young boy passes a painting of a hand on a wall in his neighborhood and watches others placing their own hands against it. The act means something different for each of them: Ms. Iris tells him it is a link to her home country; for Devin, it connects him to his older sister, who just left for college; for Savannah, it reminds her of her grandmother who passed away. The boy thinks of those who are on the other side of the mural, of loved ones lost...
84) Nine Island
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Autobiographical novel told by J, a woman who lives in a glass tower on one of Miami Beach's lush Venetian Islands. After decades of disaster with men, she is trying to decide whether to withdraw forever from romantic love. Having just returned to Miami from a monthlong reunion with an old flame, "Sir Gold," and a visit to her fragile mother, J begins translating Ovid's magical stories.
85) The storm whale
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Every day, in a house by the sea, a little boy watches his father leave for a long day's work. The boy is lonely, until one night, a storm brings a very unexpected change."--Book jacket.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Set in Australia, France, and Sri Lanka, The Life to Come is about the stories we tell and don't tell ourselves as individuals, as societies, and as nations. Driven by a vivid cast of characters, it explores necessary emigration, the art of fiction, and ethnic and class conflict. Pippa is an Australian writer who longs for the success of her novelist teacher and eventually comes to fear that she "missed everything important." In Paris, Celeste tries...
87) Say hello
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Written when the author was ten years old, tells of a dog and a boy who are both lonely until they are included by others.
88) Separate tables
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
©1958
Language
English
Description
At the Beauregard Hotel, all the eccentric guests feel lonely. In one emotional evening, four of them will bare their innermost secrets and change each other's lives forever.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Best friends Maia and Nico are inseparable, so when Nico's family must move away for a while, life without him leaves a big hold in Maia's world. When Maia's sadness eases thanks to a kitten, a new friend, and the magic of music, she worries if she can find room in her life again for Nico upon his return.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Binky Braverman's stay with his aunt and uncle in Memphis unexpectedly proves to be full of adventure when characters on the boxes and jars in their kitchen come to life and become his friends.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Joining her new fifth-grade friend, Violet, for Monday reading sessions, Nancy is upset when a few Mondays go by and they are unable to see each other.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"I'm starting a service... available for any situation in which all you want is a person to be there. Maybe there's a restaurant you want to go to, but you feel awkward going on your own. Maybe a game you want to play, but you're one person short. Or perhaps you'd like someone to keep a space in the park for your cherry blossom viewing party... Shoji Morimoto was constantly being told by his boss, 'It makes no difference whether you’re here or...
96) The Sandman
Author
Publisher
North-South Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Because everyone falls fast asleep when he arrives, the Sandman is lonely and sets out to find a friend.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boys Christmas Eve wish on a shooting star leads to an adventure with an ever-hungry rocking horse, an angel whose wings are molting, a robin who has forgotten how to sing, and a rusting tin drummer boy in Katherine Rundells classic Christmas story, with Emily Suttons gorgeous paintings.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Pie is the ghost in your house. She is not dead, she is invisible. The way she looks changes depending on what is behind her. A girl of glass. A girl who is a window. If she stands in front of floral wallpaper she is full of roses. For Pie’s entire life it’s been Pie and her mother. Just the two of them, traveling across America. They have slept in trains, in mattress stores, and on the bare ground. They have probably slept in your house. But...
100) Button and Bundle
Author
Publisher
Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Button and Bundle are best friends. So are their dolls. But when Button has to move away, she's sad and lonely without Bundle.Until one day, Button finds a single yellow balloon and an idea. With a little luck, maybe she can reunite Bundle with their dolls again! Knowing that her faraway friend would be happy is the happiest idea of all.This sweet and charming friendship story addresses how to cherish old friendships while making new ones. With fun,...
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