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3) Neville
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a boy and his family move to a new house, he devises an ingenious way to meet people in the neighborhood.
5) Lost boys
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The Fletcher family moves to Steuben, North Carolina, thinking it will be the right place for them. However, when their eight-year-old son Stevie becomes very withdrawn, they discover that he is being stalked and that other boys have mysteriously disappeared from the town.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
268 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.
10) Stuart's cape
Author
Series
Stuart volume Book 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Bored because there is nothing to do in the house to which his family has just moved, and worried about starting third grade in a new school, Stuart makes a magical cape out of his uncle's ties and has a series of adventures.
11) Netherland
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans -- a banker originally from the Netherlands -- finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. Alone and untethered, feeling lost in the country he had come to regard as home, Hans stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and, thanks to a friendship with...
12) I am number four
Author
Series
Lorien Legacies volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 311 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Haunting and evocative, brutal and surreal, these twelve connected tales evoke the life of the Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927), whose short story "In the grove" served as an inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's famous film Rashōmon, and whose narrative use of multiple perspectives and different versions of a single event influenced generations of storytellers. Writing out of his own obsession with Akutagawa, David Peace delves into the...
Author
Series
Grandma Dowdel volume Book 3
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Relates the surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1984
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
169 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Trumpet Club Special Edition. In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball. Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award Nominee, 1985-1986. Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award collection--look for DCF spine label.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After tragic events tear Mickey Bolitar away from his parents, he is forced to live with his estranged Uncle Myron and switch high schools, where he finds both friends and enemies, but when his new new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes, he follows her trail into a seedy underworld that reveals she is not what she seems to be.
18) Ttfn
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
229 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Now high school juniors, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela continue to share "instant messages" with one another as one of them experiments with marijuana, another gets her first boyfriend, and the third moves three thousand miles away.
19) Pizza my heart
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Maya Reynolds has practically grown up in her family's Brooklyn pizza shop, Soul Slice, and is a true city girl. When her family moves to a small town in Pennsylvania to open another pizza place, everything changes. Being the new girl is hard enough. At Soul Slice 2.0, Maya is assigned delivery duty. And her first delivery is a disaster. Can you make a worse impression than tripping ... and falling face-first into a rude boy's pizza order? When that...
20) Lost and found
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old identical twins Jay and Ray have long resented that everyone treats them as one person, and so they hatch a plot to take advantage of a clerical error at their new school and pretend they are just one.
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