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21) Just flowers
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Izzy's grumpy neighbor insists Izzy remove unwanted flowers from his rose garden, but instead of discarding them, Izzy spreads the joy to others, leading to a town blossoming with a rainbow of flowers.
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Language
English
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Henri "Halti" Haltiwanger can charm just about anyone. But his easy smiles mask a burning ambition to attend his dream college, Columbia University. There is only one person who seems immune to Henri's charms: his "intense" classmate and neighbor Corinne Troy. When she uncovers Henri's less-than-honest dog-walking scheme, she blackmails him into helping her change her image at school. Henri agrees, seeing a potential upside for himself. Soon what...
23) The stitchers
Author
Series
Fright watch volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-olds Quinn Parker and Mike Warren uncover the awful truth about their strange neighbors and the gruesome secret of how they stay young.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Helping her popular next-door neighbor Gayil set up what she thinks are harmless pranks, 12-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl Shaindy must figure out how to stop them before she becomes the next target when the pranks escalate and turn malicious.
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 5
Language
English
Description
One hilarious Harlem family is on a mission to find the perfect way to celebrate their Papa's fortieth birthday while discovering more about their mysterious grandparents in this heartfelt romp and latest installment to the New York Times best-selling series, perfect for fans of the Penderwicks. It's summer on 141st Street, and the Vanderbeekers are looking forward to Papa's surprise fortieth birthday party. But then Papa must leave town to help his...
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Series
Shermy and Shake volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Shermy is excited to learn the new kid in school is none other than his pal Shake, but what if the other kids like Shake better?"--Provided by publisher.
28) Split! Splat!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
When a little girl ventures out into a spring rain with her dog, singing a simple, plain, pitter-patter rain song, her neighbors soon join her for some muddy-day fun.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Sparrow Robinson blames herself for her elderly neighbor's accident, so she promises to take care of Mrs. LaRose's seven cats, all while trying to adjust to a new school--but things become complicated when she has to find new homes for all of the cats plus some unexpected kittens.
30) Daydreamer
Author
Publisher
Labyrinth Road
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Split between two worlds, his real one, in which he's a lonely, bullied kid, and a magical realm called the Sanctuary, eleven-year-old Charles finds reality and imagination colliding when evil moves into his apartment building, and he must harness the power of his creativity to save both worlds.
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Language
English
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Latinx Authors: Books for Elementary Grades
National Jewish Book Awards (Children and Teens)
Pura Belpré Award winners
National Jewish Book Awards (Children and Teens)
Pura Belpré Award winners
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In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, her family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast.
33) Trowbridge Road
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending an imaginative boy who is living with his Nana Jean after experiencing...
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 8
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Ivy and Bean try to make money by writing a newspaper about Pancake Court but the neighbors are not pleased to read about themselves.
Author
Series
Horrible Harry volume 37
Language
English
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Description
As the last day of third grade looms, Doug learns that Harry is moving to a new town and wonders how he'll survive fourth grade without him, while Harry wonders about the new neighbors across the street and what they could mean for their friendship.
36) Hardscrabble
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Belle Martin and her family move to Mingo, Colorado, in 1910 when the U.S. government offers 320 acres of land free to homesteaders.
37) Rain!
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
It's all a matter of perspective as an old man grumbles his way through a rainy morning, spreading gloom, his neighbor, a young child, spreads cheer while hopping through puddles in frog-themed rainwear.
38) The protest
Author
Series
Publisher
Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"Lily and her friends organize a protest in order to save their neighborhood public garden from being demolished"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Mother Bruce volume 5
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Grumpy Bruce the bear does not like neighbors, but is forced to help when a big storm draws them all to his home.
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