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Author
Series
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
After James Henry Trotter's parents are tragically eaten by a rhinoceros, he goes to live with his two horrible aunts. Life there is no fun, until James receives some magical, tiny green things and accidentally drops them by the old peach tree and strange things start to happen. The peach at the top of the tree begins to grow, and before long it's as big as a house. Inside, James meets a bunch of oversized friends -- Grasshopper, Centipede, Ladybug,...
3) Alone
Author
Series
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
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 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...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
AD 560L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Little Robot finds a creative solution to his loneliness he gets straight to work on shaping the perfect companion out of metal, and affectionately names him Little Dog.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A song coming from a small, high window transforms a lonely boy, a stray cat, an elderly woman, then an entire town, so when the music stops, they come together to save it.
12) Little Cub
Author
Language
English
Formats
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.
13) La la la
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Follows a singing girl's fruitless search for a friend in her world, until one night when her song is finally heard by someone who understands.
14) Pandora
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
AD 500L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Pandora the fox lives alone in a junk yard. She's depressed and has no contact with the outside world. Then, she rescues a blue bird. As she nurses him back to health, the bird collects seeds and trinkets for her. One day, the bird grows strong enough to fly away, but the garden seeds he brought begin to transform Pandora's landscape" --
Author
Publisher
Acorn/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
460L
Physical Desc
51 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Dragon is lonely so he goes looking for a friend and when an apple falls on his head he is convinced that he has found one; but at home Apple is quiet and unresponsive, and when a visit to the doctor only makes things worse, Dragon mourns the loss of his friend--until an apple tree grows where Apple is buried.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
AD 760L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"The whimsical story a man who has spent his life delivering the messages found in ocean bottles and the day he receives a message that turns out to be a party invitation" --
17) The trip
Author
Series
Lexile measure
AD 500L
Language
English
Description
Keats begins abruptly with Louie, lonely in a drab new home, unaccountably constructing a peepshow city in a shoebox. But this combination of collage and childlike drawing does make an enticing, dreamlike background for Louie's imagined trip back to the old neighborhood. While there, Louie runs into a group of strange monsters who turn out to be his old friends in imaginative Halloween disguise; and their friendly cries of "Trick or treat," while...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
450L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Little Mole has no friends since moving to a new home so he molds a snowball into a bear, wishing that it will come to life.
20) Friends
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Lexile measure
AD 160L
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! When a surprising new student joins the class, the girl and her new friends know just how to make him feel at home."--