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Author
Language
English
Description
A foster child named Angel and twelve-year-old Stella, who are living with Stella's great-aunt Louise at the Linger Longer Cottage Colony on Cape Cod, secretly assume responsibility for the vacation rentals when Louise unexpectedly dies and the girls are afraid of being returned to the foster care system.
4) Looking up
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Upset that her neighborhood is being torn down and replaced by fancy condos and coffee shops, Saint, along with her new friend Daniel, hatches a plan to save what is left of her beloved hometown.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A pet fish who has lost his companion imparts a gentle message about saying goodbye while touching on the emotions commonly experienced in the face of loss.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fannie and Louis both belong to an online support group for trauma survivors. They both also have a strange tendency to lose things. But when they embark on a road trip to finally meet each other, they start to realize that the things you lose might be things you weren't meant to have at all, and that you never know what you might find if you just take a chance"--
9) Blue skies
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Formats
Description
Glory Bea Bennett knows that miracles happen in Gladiola, Texas, population 3,241. After all, her grandmother--the best matchmaker in the whole county--is responsible for thirty-nine of them. Now Glory Bea needs a miracle of her own. The war ended three years ago, but Glory Bea's father never returned home from the front in France. Glory Bea understands what Mama and grams and grandpa say--that daddy died a hero on Omaha Beach--yet deep down in her...
10) The rough patch
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Farmer Evan and his dog do everything together and, especially, in the garden but when his dog passes away Evan lets his garden fill with weeds until a pumpkin vine brings new hope.
11) Bluebird
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A wordless picture book about the inspiring friendship that develops between a bluebird and a young boy"--Provided by publisher.
13) The poet's dog
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Teddy is a gifted dog. Raised in a cabin by a poet named Sylvan, he grew up listening to sonnets read aloud and the comforting clicking of a keyboard. Although Teddy understands words, Sylvan always told him there are only two kinds of people in the world who can hear Teddy speak: poets and children. Then one day Teddy learns that Sylvan was right. When Teddy finds Nickel and Flora trapped in a snowstorm, he tells them that he will bring them home...
14) Fourmile
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious stranger arrives at a boy's rundown Alabama farm home, just as a dangerous situation is unfolding for the twelve-year-old and his widowed mother"--
16) Tape
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
English teens Ameliah and Ryan, who live twenty years apart, meet fortuitously when each begins recording cassette tapes to work through family problems and hears the other's voice speaking back.
17) Yugen
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations, simple text, and haiku reveal a young boy's longing and remembrance of his mother.
18) The line tender
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
371 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Following a tragedy that further alters the course of her life, twelve-year-old Lucy Everhart decides to continue the shark research her marine biologist mother left unfinished when she died years earlier"--
19) Ida, always
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A polar bear grieves over the loss of his companion, based on the real-life Gus and Ida of New York's Central Park Zoo.
20) Henry and Bea
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
When Bea's best friend, Henry, seems sad and stops talking to her, she gently tries to find out what is wrong.--
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