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1) Seedfolks
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.
Author
Series
Sam Krupnik volume 3
Language
English
Description
Sam Krupnik, mad at his mother because she won't let him wear his new plastic fangs in the house, decides to run away to Alaska.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
213 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
When his parents separate, Daniel very unhappily moves to a cottage on While-A-Way Lane, but neighbor Tilda Butter helps him discover he has a special gift like hers.--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Indian-American Pandita Paul deals with change, grief, friendship, and growing up in a community facing a housing crisis.
Twelve-year-old Indian-American Pandita Paul doesn't like change. She's not ready to start middle school and leave the comforts of childhood behind. Most of all, Pandita doesn't want to feel like she's leaving her mother, who died a few years ago, behind. After a falling out with her best friend, Pandita is planning...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A friendly neighborhood business competition between two sixth-graders---Rachel Chambers, so quiet she is practically invisible, and Peter S. Gronkowski, future mogul---turns into a ruthless rivalry.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Scooter, Maryellen's pudgy pet dachshund, may be lazy, but he's one of the family, and Maryellen loves him dearly. And he never misses a meal! So when Scooter doesn't show up at dinnertime, she's worried. Maryellen launches a search and discovers some strange goings-on in her neighborhood. With the help of her friends and family, the search for Scooter takes Maryellen from the streets of Daytona Beach to the rocket launchpad at Cape Canaveral!"--Publisher....
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
207 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
The last remaining orange tree on a Southern California street brings together neighbors of all ages as they face their problems and anxieties, including the possibility that a mysterious stranger is a threat to their tree.
Author
Series
A Mo Wren novel volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Mo's mother dies in an accident and Mo's devastated father deals with the loss by moving the family to a new town and starting a new life as the owner of a sports bar, Mo must leave her much loved neighborhood on Fox Street to live in an apartment above the "cursed" Corky's Tavern.
Author
Series
A Mo Wren novel volume 1
Language
English
Description
Fox Street means everything to Mo Wren, who is nearly eleven, and so she is very upset when a land developer offers to buy her father's house, especially since she has not yet found the fox she is sure lives in the nearby ravine.
14) Under the egg
Author
Language
English
Description
Her grandfather's dying words lead thirteen-year-old Theodora Tenpenny to a valuable, hidden painting she fears may be stolen, but it is her search for answers in her Greenwich Village neighborhood that brings a real treasure.
Author
Series
Julia Gillian volume 1
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Julia Gillian learns a lot about facing fear as she and her St. Bernard, Bigfoot, take long walks through their Minneapolis neighborhood one hot summer, and she seeks the courage to finish a book that could have an unhappy ending.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
226 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fernie What, an adventurous young horror fan, moves into the house across the street from the dark mansion of a mysterious boy whose residence is haunted by evil shadows.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Lena is aware of racism, but she lives a comfortable life in the segregated but relatively wealthy Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma; but on May 31, 1921 racial tensions explode, and men from downtown Tulsa invade Greenwood, set on killing and destroying the district--and as the violence escalates Lena, her parents, and her older sister search desperately for a safe place to hide from the mob.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
242 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Fernie and Gustav battle the Shadow Eater, who seeks The Nightmare Vault for his master, the evil Lord Obsidian, Fernie learns about Gustav's mysterious past and just what happened to his missing parents.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Beginning in 1959, Abby, nearly eleven, writes a series of letters to Jackie Kennedy, each with sketches of outfits she has designed, as she faces family problems, concerns about neighbors, and her own desperate desire for both her first bra and a Barbie doll.
20) Here today
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1963, when her flamboyant mother abandons the family to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, eleven-year-old Ellie Dingman takes charge of her younger siblings, while also trying to deal with her outcast status in school and frightening acts of prejudice toward the "misfits" that live on her street.
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