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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Ruby's homesickness spreads to other students at Master Willow's School for Ninjas, she uses all of the skills she has learned to help them feel better. Includes instructions for making a dragon toy two different ways.
7) Shark dog!
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Half-shark, half-dog Shark Dog ends up on the boat of a boy and his explorer dad, and becomes their pet. But when he gets homesick, he'll have to decide whether to go back to Shark Island or stay in his new home.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When a boy notices the new girl collecting litter on their walks home, he wants to know why. She shows him the mural she's created that reminds her of the home she left behind. They both find how wonderful it is to make a new friend"--
10) King of the Sky
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
When a young boy moves from his home in Italy to Wales, the only thing that cheers him up are the racing pigeons that Mr. Evans keeps in a loft behind his house.
11) La piedra azul
Author
Publisher
Fondo de Cultura Económica
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Español
Description
The blue stone is moved from its home in the forest and sculpted into many different forms. As it breaks, symbolizing heartbreak, it is moved to another place and is reborn. This story captures the intense pull of nostalgia and sense of longing we all feel when we are far away from home. A symbolic story.
Author
Publisher
K. Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Al viajar desde Latinoamérica para visitar a sus parientes en Ohio, Lucy se siente muy nostálgica hasta que se da cuenta de que la única manera de comunicarse con el perro travieso de su primo es aprender inglés.
When young Lucy travels from Latin America to visit relatives in Ohio, she is very homesick until she realizes that the only way to communicate with her cousin's frisky dog is to learn to speak English.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When Ren moves to Ava's city, he feels lost without the green and magic of his home, but not everything in the city is what meets the eye and Ren discovers that nothing makes you feel at home quite like a friend"--
14) My tree
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"A boy makes a connection with a plum tree after moving to a new home"--
Author
Series
Mango Delight volume 2
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Where Mango goes, drama is sure to follow! It's summer break, and Mango is content to spend her time babysitting her brother, hanging with her friend Izzy, and binge-watching movies late into the night. Then she runs into her drama teacher, who has some big news: their middle school play Yo, Romeo! is headed to the stage in New York City . . . and he wants Mango for the lead role! After overcoming her mom's initial reluctance-and with some firm rules...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Mónica and Hannah are school kids in the big city. Together, they have formed the Homesick Club, since they are both from far away. Mónica misses the family of hummingbirds that she and her grandmother would feed in her backyard in Bolivia every day. Hannah misses the sunshine and the tiny tortoise that lived near her house in Israel. When a new teacher, Miss Shelby, arrives from Texas, the girls discover that she misses her home, too, especially...
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Sakura's dad gets a new job in America, so she and her parents make the move from their home in Japan. When she arrives in the States, most of all she misses her grandmother and the cherry blossom trees, under which she and her grandmother used to play and picnic. She wonders how she'll ever feel at home in this new place, with its unfamiliar language and landscape. One day, she meets her neighbor, a boy named Luke, and begins to feel a little more...
18) A bit of Earth
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"Difficult child Maria Latif arrives in Long Island from Pakistan to live with the strange Clayborne family where she discovers an off-limits garden that becomes a place where she finally feels at home"--
Growing up in Pakistan, Maria Latif has been bounced between reluctant relatives for as long as she can remember--first because of her parents' constant travel, and then because of their deaths. Maria has always been a difficult child, and it never...
Author
Series
Owen and Eleanor volume 1
Publisher
Sparkhouse Family
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When eight-year-old Eleanor moves into the bottom half of a duplex with her family, she is not happy. Her old home was way better. In her old home, she even had her own bedroom. Not any more--now she has to share with her big sister. The situation needs to change, and she knows just how to fix it. When Owen, age seven, meets Eleanor, he's excited--finally, someone to play with who isn't his little brother! He teaches her how to fence and write in...
20) Sugar in milk
Author
Publisher
RP Kids
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"A young immigrant girl joins her aunt and uncle in a new country that is unfamiliar to her. She struggles with loneliness, with a fierce longing for the culture and familiarity of home, until one day, her aunt takes her on a walk. As the duo strolls through their city park, the girl's aunt begins to tell her an old myth, and a story within the story begins. A long time ago, a group of refugees arrived on a foreign shore. The local king met them,...
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