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The successful but lonely daughter of a powerful New York theater icon falls for her childhood imaginary friend in this touching love story.
As a little girl, Jane has no one. Her mother, a powerful Broadway producer, makes time for her only once a week, for their Sunday trip to admire jewelry at Tiffany's. Jane has only one friend: a handsome, comforting, funny man named Michael. He's perfect. But only she can see him.
Years later, Jane...
As a little girl, Jane has no one. Her mother, a powerful Broadway producer, makes time for her only once a week, for their Sunday trip to admire jewelry at Tiffany's. Jane has only one friend: a handsome, comforting, funny man named Michael. He's perfect. But only she can see him.
Years later, Jane...
3) Love, mama
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Baby Kipling, a penguin, misses his mama when she goes on a trip.
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2015.
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English
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In Holt, Colorado, widower Louis Waters is initially thrown when the widowed Addie Moore suggests that they spend time together, in bed, to stave off loneliness, but soon they are exchanging the confidences and memories. They are soon exchanging the confidences and memories of lives now empty of family, and their hopes for the imminent future.
8) Alone
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Lone Star List 2022 (Gr. 6-8)
National Poetry Month - Kids
NCTE Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels (ages 3-13) 2022
National Poetry Month - Kids
NCTE Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels (ages 3-13) 2022
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When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She's alone--left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or Internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own, her only companions being a Rottweiler named George and all the books she can read. Told in verse format.
10) Pretty kitty
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"In this ... counting book, a lonely old man discovers one kitty on his front step. But he does not want a kitty cat--scat! As the number of kitties grows, will the man find room in his heart--and home--for his new feline friends?"--Dust jacket flap.
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In a story told in letters, when Claire's best friend moves away just before the start of fifth grade, Claire becomes the only girl in her tiny island elementary school--and suddenly boys she has been friends with her whole life turn into resentful, bullying strangers.
12) Idiopathy
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"Katherine, Daniel, and Nathan ... unsuccessfully try to figure out how they feel about one another and how they might best live their lives in a world gone mad. Featuring a mysterious cattle epidemic, a humiliating stint in rehab, an unwanted pregnancy, a mom-turned-media personality ('Mother Courage'), and a workplace with a bio-dome housing a perfectly engineered cornfield, it is at once a satire and a meditation on love and loneliness"--Dust jacket...
13) Trevor
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"Trevor is lonely and looking for a friend. He stretches his wings the width of his boring cage and notices the tree outside stretching its branch. And on the end of that branch? Perhaps a new friend--but one that's quiet and obviously very shy. Trevor knows just how to make him feel comfortable"--Dust jacket flap.
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Hawthorn Creely is searching for the missing Lizzie Lovett, but she might just end up finding herself Hawthorn Creely doesn't fit in, and that was before she inserted herself into a missing persons investigation. She doesn't mean to interfere, but Lizzie's disappearance is the most fascinating mystery their town has ever had. And she's pretty sure Lizzie'll turn up at any moment, which means the time for speculation is now. So Hawthorn comes up with...
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"Daniel travels through America's countryside, creating astonishing crop circles that leave communities mystified. But when a dying Vermont corn farmer hires Daniel in an effort to breathe new life into the town he loves, Daniel is drawn into a community struggling to stitch itself back together. For once he is forced to stand still, and face the past he's been running from all this years. For fans of Phaedra Patrick and Fredrick Backman, this astonishing...
16) Losing it
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2016.
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English
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"Julia Greenfield has a problem: she's twenty-six years old and she's still a virgin. Sex ought to be easy. People have it all the time! But, without meaning to, she made it through college and into adulthood with her virginity intact. Something's got to change. To re-route herself from her stalled life, Julia travels to spend the summer with her mysterious aunt Vivienne in North Carolina. It's not long, however, before she unearths a confounding...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2024 - Children
National Poetry Month - Kids
NCTE Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels (ages 3-13) 2024
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National Poetry Month - Kids
NCTE Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels (ages 3-13) 2024
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"De la autora de Iveliz lo explica todo llega esta conmovedora novela en verso, donde un perro extraviado ayuda a una nią solitaria a reencontrarse con su familia. . .Cuánto tiempo tienes que vivir en un lugar antes de que puedas llamarlo casa? Laura Rodríguez Colón tiene un plan: no importa lo que digan los adultos, ella vivirá nuevamente con sus padres. Después de todo, cómo les explicas a los dems̀ que estás en un hogar de acogida, aunque...
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"Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never thinks of herself as lonely...but still she looks forward to that time every day when old curmudgeon Arthur McLachlan comes to browse the shelves and cheerfully insult her. Their sparring is such a highlight of Sloane's day that when Arthur doesn't show up one morning, she's instantly concerned. And then another day passes, and another. Anxious, Sloane...
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"Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea's most exciting young writers. A runaway bestseller, the novel hit the top five lists of all the major bookstores and went into nine printings. Love in the Big City is an energetic, joyful, and moving novel that depicts both the glittering nighttime world of Seoul and the bleary-eyed morning-after. Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from...
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