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Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students...
7) Spare parts
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
While searching for a replacement heart at the Spare Parts Mart, a lonely robot finds a friend.
8) Someday
Author
Series
Every day volume 3
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When A learns he is not the only person waking up in a different person's body every day, he gains new understanding of the extremes where love and loneliness can lead. Told from multiple perspectives.
11) The dream house
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
The stormy winds and friendly children help Lucas transform his tower-house into the home of his dreams.
13) Elsie's bird
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Young Elsie must find a way to adapt to her new home on the Nebraska prairie after she and her father leave their comfortable city life in Boston.
14) Little dog, lost
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A boy, a dog, and an old man are lonely before the boy plans a rally, the dog looks for a boy, and all the townspeople run to the old man's aid when lightning strikes his home and something miraculous happens.
Author
Series
(Keith Gordon),Zombie problems volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When August DuPont, eleven, leaves his eccentric Aunt Hydrangea's crumbling mansion for the first time ever, he meets family, makes a friend, and attracts a zombie.
17) Sugar in milk
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A young immigrant girl joins her aunt and uncle in a new country that is unfamiliar to her. She struggles with loneliness, with a fierce longing for the culture and familiarity of home, until one day, her aunt takes her on a walk. As the duo strolls through their city park, the girl's aunt begins to tell her an old myth, and a story within the story begins.
18) Alone
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town. 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...
19) We are okay
Author
Language
English
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Description
"After leaving her life behind to go to college in New York, Marin must face the truth about the tragedy that happened in the final weeks of summer when her friend Mabel comes to visit."--OCLC.
20) Always together
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Two otters are always together, always sharing adventures--until one day one of them is gone, and nothing is the same.
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