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6) Catalyst
Author
Language
English
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Description
Eighteen-year-old Kate, who sometimes chafes at being a preacher's daughter, finds herself losing control in her senior year as she faces difficult neighbors, the possibility that she may not be accepted by the college of her choice, and an unexpected death.
7) Roof octopus
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Nora is the first to notice a very large octopus on top of her apartment building, which proves to be a very good neighbor but leaves all too soon.
9) A roof!
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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With the help of her Filipino community, a young girl and her father journey to return a neighbor's roof after a typhoon.
11) Grown with love
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Oliver the plant scientist uses his botanical inventions to fix problems for his neighbors, but he soon discovers Mrs. Kroftombottom's conundrum cannot be solved with science alone.
13) Agnes's place
Author
Publisher
Amazon Crossing Kids
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Agnes knows she is at home before she even opens her eyes in the morning. The sounds and smells and people swirl around her--she always knows what everyone is up to in the tight-knit apartment building where she lives. But she also knows what it is like to be the only child in a place full of adults who never have time. So when a little girl moves in to the building, Agnes is excited and sends her a subtle message. But the girl doesn't respond. Then...
17) Echo Mountain
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
When the Great Depression takes almost everything they own, Ellie's family is forced to leave their home in town and start over in the untamed forests of nearby Echo Mountain. Ellie has found a welcome freedom, and a love of the natural world, in her new life on the mountain. But there is little joy, even for Ellie, as her family struggles with the aftermath of an accident that has left her father in a coma. An accident unfairly blamed on Ellie. Determined...
18) Cold turkey
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A bundled-up turkey gives away pieces of its own winter clothing to chilly animal friends"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After Ellie's first elevator build goes terribly wrong, her parents decide her "punishment" is to assist an elderly neighbor, Mrs. Curran, around the house. Ellie and her friends Kit and Toby are really only supposed to help with little things, but Ellie can't turn down the opportunity to use her engineering skills here and there where she sees a need--because that's what engineers do! It's no fun, though, when Mrs. Curran always gives Toby the credit...
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