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2) November 9
Author
Language
English
Description
"Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon's last day in Los Angeles together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always sought for his novel. Over time and amidst the various relationships and tribulations of their own separate lives, they continue to meet on the same date every year. Until one day Fallon becomes unsure...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Moving away from everything familiar can be a frightening prospect, as the girl in this story experiences. She and her parents are packing up and leaving their neighborhood, their friends, and her school to move to a new town. The text, along with detailed, cool-toned richly saturated illustrations, reveals the girl reliving memories and gathering her courage during the nightlong car ride to their new home. During the drive, she looks through a photo...
Author
Language
English
Description
Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Sadie and Will Foust have only just moved their family from bustling Chicago to small-town Maine when their neighbor Morgan Baines is found dead in her home. The murder rocks their tiny coastal island, but no one is more shaken than Sadie. But it's not just Morgan's death that has Sadie on edge. And as the eyes of suspicion turn toward the new family in town, Sadie is drawn deeper into the mystery of what really happened that dark and deadly night....
Author
Series
Mother Bruce volume 3
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"With four geese, three mice, and a very grumpy bear all crowded into one den, Bruce is ready for a new home"--
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
55 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Bored because there is nothing to do in the house to which his family has just moved and worried about starting third grade in a new school, Stuart makes a magical cape out of his uncle's ties and has a series of adventures.
Author
Publisher
Floris Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Mina is worried about starting a new kindergarten in her new country. The classroom is full of laughter, friendly faces and fun things to do, but the only word Mina can understand is her name. As she listens to stories and songs, chatter and instructions, Mina's understanding steadily grows. She tries out sounds that roar in her throat and tickle her tongue until the new words feel like her own. Then one day, Mina realises that this language now belongs...
Author
Publisher
Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A family feud before the start of seventh grade propels Meilan from Boston's Chinatown to rural Ohio, where she must tap into her inner strength and sense of justice to make a new place for herself"--
12) Imaginary friend
Author
Language
English
Description
"Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night with Christopher at her side. Together, they find themselves drawn to the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania. It's as far off the beaten track as they can get. Just one highway in, one highway out. At first, it seems like the perfect place to finally settle down. Then Christopher...
13) Percy's museum
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A young boy moves from the city, where there was always something to do and someone to do it with, to the country. His new home just isn't the same, but at least it's summertime -- flowers are blooming, baby birds are hatching, and caterpillars are transforming into butterflies. Percy tastes wild strawberries, climbs trees and tries to catch fish in the river with his bare hands. Even at night, the garden is full of life. When he gets home, Percy...
Publisher
Crunchyroll
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (63 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
At what speed must I live in order to see you again? In this anime film, Takaki is a young man on a journey from Tokyo to reunite with his childhood best friend, Akari. This film travels through three interconnected tales of love and lost innocence that span the minutes and months of their lives. 5 Centimeters Per Second, the speed at which cherry blossoms fall from the trees, is reminiscent of the pace of life as our lives intermingle.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.
16) Unfamiliar: 1
Author
Series
Unfamiliar volume 1
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
[Graphic novel edition].
Physical Desc
141 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Young kitchen witch Planchette gets an incredible deal on a new house in a magical town. Turns out, there's a reason: it's haunted! After unsuccessfully attempting to get these unwanted ghosts to leave, she realizes the only thing to do is to help them with their problems. Along the way, she befriends a shy siren who hates being popular, a girl battling a curse, and a magically-challenged witch from a powerful coven.
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