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2) Megabat
Author
Series
Megabat volume 1
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
183 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
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...
3) Alone
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 are a Rottweiler named George and all the books she can read. After a rough start, Maddie...
Author
Language
English
Description
One summer's day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries - and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It's because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it's because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
'Seven years ago, the Ballastian sisters' parents left them in the magical Straygarden Place, a house surrounded by tall silver grass and floating trees. They left behind a warning saying never to leave the house or go into the grass. "Wait for us," the note read. "Sleep darkly." Ever since then, the house itself has taken care of Winnow, Mayhap, and Pavonine--feeding them, clothing them, even keeping them company--while the girls have waited and...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
May Bird trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
317 pages : illustrations , map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lonely and shy, ten-year-old May Ellen Bird has no idea what awaits her when she falls into the lake and enters The Ever After, home of ghosts and the Bogeyman.
10) The islander
Author
Publisher
DK Ink
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
96 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Living with his grandfather on an island off British Columbia, orphaned ten-year-old Daniel feels deep loneliness until the night he meets a mermaid whose identity he tries to learn.
Author
Series
Zombie problems volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When August DuPont, age eleven, leaves his eccentric Aunt Hydrangea's crumbling mansion for the first time ever, he meets family, makes a friend, and attracts a zombie.
12) Little dog, lost
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
197 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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.
13) The ice garden
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Jess, a girl who is allergic to the sun, sneaks out of her house, she discovers a magical garden made out of ice.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
73 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Since Pearl's grandmother's became seriously ill, Pearl's world view has changed, causing her to feel like an island in school, isolated and alone, especially when her teacher keeps asking for poems that rhyme and Pearl's somehow, seldom do.
Author
Series
Fifth quarter volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
267 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Just when Lori starts to get comfortable, things change again. Lori's friends have found new interests. Her dad goes back to work for the first time since she was born. And when her mom decides to start coaching in the new after-school basketball league, Lori's home life collides with her passion. To make matters worse, all her friends are playing for the opposing team. Lori feels frustrated and alone, like she might be falling behind in her game"--Provided...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
English language edition.
Physical Desc
103 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Detective Gordon retires and Buffy is left alone at the police station, she hears strange noises and decides to call Gordon in to help her with the mystery.
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
159 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Diana leads an idyllic life on the island of Themyscira. Cut off from the rest of the world, she's beginning to feel more and more isolated. Though she has a loving mother and many aunties, she is an only child. THE only child child on the island, in fact. After an escapade goes wrong, Diana gets in trouble for not living up to the Amazonian standard. She just can't seem to measure up no matter what she does. Every other person on...
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