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English
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Mia is spending her summer with her grandmother in a small Maine town, expecting it to be an oasis of stability in her changing life, but there is a new know-it-all boy next door, and soon she finds herself competing with Cayman in identifying an injured bird of prey--and pretty much everything else.
62) Lurkers
Author
Language
English
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"In a suburban LA neighborhood, a group of neighbors keep wary distance and at times collide, propelled by loneliness, desire, fury, and sorrow. Precocious Korean American sisters Mira and Rosemary find their world rocked by a suicide; a charismatic and creepy drama teacher grooms his students; an aging gay horror novelist fights loneliness; and a white mother and her adopted Vietnamese daughter deal with lifelong anger issues. Spanning decades, and...
63) The red hat
Author
Publisher
Disney * Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"Once upon a time, high atop the world, there lived a boy named Billy Hightower and the wind. When a new neighbor appears--a girl in a red hat--Billy Hightower can hardly wait to meet her and introduce himself. But the wind has other ideas"--
64) A new arrival
Author
Series
Sprout Street neighbors volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The animals who live in the apartment building on Sprout Street have a new neighbor, Lily, who just moved in from Hawaii.
65) Welcome home
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal how a newborn baby is welcomed to the world by parents, siblings, grandparents, other relatives, and neighbors.
Author
Language
English
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"The Helena is an art deco apartment building that has witnessed the changing face of South Miami Beach for seventy years, observing the lives housed within. Among those who have called apartment 2B home across the decades are a Cuban concert pianist who performs in a nursing home; the widow of an intelligence officer raising her young daughter alone; a man waiting on a green card marriage to run its course so that he can divorce his wife and marry...
68) Jungle cat
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An indoor cat brings a community together after his dreams of exploring the outside world quickly go awry. Bob is an orange tabby cat with big dreams. He lives in a safe and friendly apartment building with his human, Pippa, but Bob knows he is more than an indoor cat―he's a Jungle Cat! When he sneaks outside to chase after his dream, Bob's adventure suddenly gets too wild. It's a good thing jungle cats know when to ask for help! Vibrantly illustrated,...
69) The neighbors
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Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Language
English
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Description
As she climbs the seven stories to her own apartment, a little girl imagines what happens behind every door she passes.
71) We are the light
Author
Language
English
Description
Lucas Goodgame lives in Majestic, Pennsylvania, a quaint suburb that has been torn apart by a recent tragedy. Everyone in Majestic sees Lucas as a hero--everyone, that is, except Lucas himself. Insisting that his deceased wife, Darcy, visits him every night in the form of an angel, Lucas spends his time writing letters to his former Jungian analyst, Karl. It is only when Eli, an eighteen-year-old young man whom the community has ostracized, begins...
73) At first spite
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Series
Harlot's Bay volume 1
Language
English
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After her fiancé's brother convinces him to break up with her before the wedding, Athena Greydon moves into a ten-foot-wide Spite House between the two and engages in some well-deserved payback.
74) En la azotea
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones la Fragatina
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
1a edición.
Language
Español
Description
A boy watching his elderly neighbor and his pet goldfinch on the roof of a nearby apartment building notices the caged songbird developing a relationship with a wild pigeon, and sees how unhappy both birds are when they are separated.
Author
Publisher
Two Lions
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Amelia is a shy little girl with a big imagination. After an injury, she finds solace in stories--fairy tales about faraway lands and magical creatures. When two children move in next door, Amelia wonders: Can she play with them? Can she be as brave as the heroines in the stories she reads? With the help of a little bird outside her window, Amelia finds the courage she needs to embark on a journey in her new wheelchair...where she discovers that...
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 1
Publisher
Lectorum Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Spanish edition.
Language
Español
Description
After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor.
Author
Series
Family Fletcher novels volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Summertime brings the Fletcher Family back to Rock Island where the good times never end, but this summer the boys' favorite lighthouse is all boarded up and with the help from their new neighbors, the Garcia girls, the boys are determined to find out what is really happening with their lighthouse and saving it, no matter what the cost.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A stunning new novel from the author of A Children's Bible, a National Book Award finalist and one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2020. Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a writer without limits" (Karen Russell) and "a stone-cold genius" (Jenny Offill), Millet makes fiction that vividly evokes the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction. Her exquisite...
Author
Series
Happily Inc volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mathias Mitchell's easy smile hides a world of hurt. After the worst kind of family betrayal, he moves to Happily Inc., California - the wedding destination town supplies a steady stream of bridesmaids, perfect for his "no promises, no pain" lifestyle. Yet he can't stop watching for his beautiful, elusive neighbor on the animal preserve behind their homes. Gamekeeper Carol Lund knows she's not special enough to attract an alpha male like Mathias,...
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