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English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A lonely scarecrow with a scary face has trouble making friends with the animals who surround him, until a heavy snowfall transforms him into a jolly snowman.
10) Scrawny cat
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A lost, lonely, and scrawny cat, hungry and afraid, unexpectedly meets someone who takes him in and loves him.
11) 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.
12) Alone
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Series
Language
English
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...
13) Little Cub
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
A young bear cub, who is alone in the world, and Old Bear, who is grumpy and tired of living alone, meet and discover what they have been missing.
14) Herman and Rosie
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
In New York City, a "groovy little jazz number" brings together a lonely crocodile and deer.
15) Ghastly ghosts
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Old Dave ignores strange noises he hears in the lonely old cottage he inherited from his uncle, except the voice telling him there are ghastly ghosts in the coal shed.
19) Friends
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"A girl from a faraway place begins her first day at school. She doesn't speak the language and she looks different. She just doesn't fit in. But one day, she makes an unexpected friend a squirrel! Then a rabbit joins them. Soon the girl's fuzzy woodland friends are followed by human ones and school becomes more fun!"--
20) Little Brown
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"Little Brown is grumpy and lonely at the dog park, until he decides to take matters into his own hands."--
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