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341) Quintessence
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Quintessence is an extraordinary story from Jess Redman about friendship, self-discovery, interconnectedness, and the inexplicable elements that make you you. "Find the Elements. Grow the Light. Save the Starling." Three months ago, twelve-year-old Alma moved to the town of Four Points. Her panic attacks started a week later, and they haven't stopped -- even though she's told her parents that they have. She's homesick and friendless and every day...
343) Isla to island
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A wordless graphic novel in which twelve-year-old Marisol must adapt to a new life 1960s Brooklyn after her parents send her to the United States from Cuba to keep her safe during Castro's regime"--
345) Bitter and sweet
Author
Publisher
Goundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Despite her grandmother's wise words about how moving to a new place can be both bitter and sweet, Hannah feels only bitterness as she tries to get used to her new house. But when she sees the new home in the soft light of the Shabbat candles and a new friend reaches out with a special gift, Hannah begins to realize that sweetness can come from unexpected places. Includes author's note about Jewish traditions.
"When Hannah's family has to move, her...
346) Hopscotch
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When her family must move once more, Ophelia uses her imagination to make magic out of a scary situation. Giant rabbits with sharp teeth circle the old motel where they are staying. Ophelia can also hear crow-witches cackling from the trees. And when it's time to go to her new school, she encounters an ogre who blocks the road with his giant ogre laughs. But most frightening of all is when Ophelia is left in her new class and realizes that everyone...
347) My favorite memories
Author
Publisher
Blue Dot Kids Press
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"A beautifully simple story about moving to a new home, exploring themes of change and permanence and told with warm illustrations from an award-winning illustrator. A young girl is moving to a new country, and there's so much that she wants to bring: an aquarium, a pear tree, her best friend, the ocean. As she moves through the list of the things she loves, she comes to understand that while we cannot always carry things with us physically--maybe...
348) Stoop sale treasure
Author
Series
Hand-me-down magic volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"Del loves LOTS of things! The Curious Cousins Secondhand Shoppe. Ginormous family dinners. And of course, her best-friend-cousin, Alma. Alma loves her abuelita's tasty empanadas. Her old home by the lake. And soon, she'll love living in the same place as her best-friend-cousin, Del. Yet despite having Del by her side, Alma isn't quite sure she fits in with their family at 86 ½ Twenty-Third Avenue. It's a new life and it's all so different. When...
Author
Publisher
Floris Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Adin and Dina are best friends. They live in the beautiful countryside surrounded by cherry trees. Their favorite game is to plant cherry pits around their little village - in the cracks in the sidewalk and in the flowerbeds outside the post office. Then one day Adin and his family move away to the city. Will Adin and Dina's friendship survive the new distance between them? In this beautifully lyrical book, one story fractures into two when the friends...
350) McTavish on the move
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When Pa Peachey comes home in a happy-go-lucky mood--and singing!--the family is concerned. Pa has never not been grumpy after work! But when Ma and siblings Ava and Ollie learn that Pa has gotten a new job--which means moving to an appealing new house--they are all pretty quick to get on board. Even McTavish the dog is excited to make a canine pal in the new park nearby. Only the youngest sibling, Betty, remains out of sorts--nervous about changing...
351) The newspaper club
Author
Series
Newspaper Club volume 1
Publisher
RP Kids
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Shortly after Nellie Murrow, named for one of the fiercest journalists who ever lived and daughter of two (former) newspaper reporters, move to sleepy Bear Creek, Maine, rumors of vandalism and attacks at the only park in town are keeping Nellie saddled to the house. Some townspeople say the attacks are gang recruitments. Others blame a vagrant spotted on the hiking trails around town. But when Nellie thinks like a reporter, none of those explanations...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Alice is moving for the eleventh time. She's lived in so many houses, each more broken than the last, that home to Alice is nothing more than a place you fix and then a place you leave. After all, who needs a permanent home when you're a whiz at fixing things? But when Alice arrives at her new home, she can't take her eyes off the house next door, the stately dark house that hulked in the dimming light. The once-grand mansion, now dilapidated...
Author
Series
Twig and Turtle volume 1
Publisher
Pixel + Ink
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Family, friendship, new school challenges, and a rather large dog problem combine as sisters adjust to their new tiny house life in this charming chapter book series starter from award-winning author Jennifer Richard Jacobson. Perfect for fans of Ivy and Bean and Judy Moody. In a tiny house, 3 shirts + 3 pants = 9 different outfits. Eight- and six-year-old sisters Twig and Turtle are excited and curious about their new small town in Colorado. And...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Eleven-year-old Carolina's summer -- and life as she knows it -- is upended when Papi loses his job, and she and her family must move from Puerto Rico to her Tía Cuca and Uncle Porter's house in upstate New York. Now Carolina must attend Silver Meadows camp, where her bossy older cousin Gabriela rules the social scene. Just as Carolina worries she'll have to spend the entire summer in Gabriela's shadow, she makes a friend of her own in Jennifer,...
Author
Publisher
TOON Books, an imprint of RAW Junior
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"After getting separated from his teacher, his classmates, and his trip partner during an outing to the Empire State Building, Pablo, the new kid in school, learns to navigate the New York City subway system as well as his own feelings towards making new friends and living in a big city"--Provided by publisher.
356) Por un ratito
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"Cuando la familia de Maribel se tiene que mudar con la t�ia Carmen porque papi perdi�o su trabajo, Maribel y su hermana se sienten dudosas. No siempre es f�acil compartir una habitaci�on o estar en una casa llena de primos ruidosos, pero papi les recuerda a las ni�nas que es solo por un ratito. Mientras tanto, siempre hay alguien con quien jugar, la hora de comer est�a llena de m�usica y carcajadas y la hora de dormir es para acurrucarse....
Author
Series
Izzy Malone duology volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Violet Barnaby is a having a blue Christmas. She's still grieving the loss of her mother, and to make things worse, her dad has just married Melanie Harmer, a.k.a. the meanest teacher at Dandelion Hollow Middle School. But on the day Violet and her dad are packing up and moving into the new house they'll share with Melanie and Melanie's two children, Violet finds a letter her mother wrote to her before she died, asking Violet to enjoy Christmas, along...
Author
Publisher
Lóguez
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
"Una niña se muda con sus padres a otro país. Quiere llevarse muchas cosas, pero Èqué hacer si no puedes meter todo en la maleta? ÈO quizá habrá alguna manera de llevarse sus cosas favoritas?" --
A beautifully simple story about moving to a new home, exploring themes of change and permanence and told with warm illustrations from an award-winning illustrator. A young girl is moving to a new country, and there's so much that she wants to bring:...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espa�nol
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Ram�on no puede dormir. El primer d�ia en su nueva escuela lo asusta. El Cucuy es el monstruo que vive en el cactus de Ram�on y tampoco puede dormir. �El Cucuy tambi�en tiene miedo!"--
Ram�on is worried about his first day at a new school, but it helps to remind El Cucuy, the monster who lives in his cactus pot, of how brave and strong they both are.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Peyton, who is having the worst summer ever after moving away from her best friend, finds a box buried in her back yard while, in 1989, Mel and Jess embark on their best summer.
This is going to be the worst summer ever for Peyton. Her family just moved, and she had to leave her best friend behind. She's lonely and bored until she comes across a box buried in her backyard, with a message: "I'm so sorry. Please forgive me." Back in 1989, Melissa and...
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