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Author
Language
English
Description
"Sybil and Blake Gregory have established a predictable, well-ordered Manhattan life. But everything changes when Blake is offered a dream job he can't resist as CEO of a start-up in San Francisco. He accepts it without consulting his wife and buys a magnificent, irresistibly underpriced historic Pacific Heights mansion as their new home. The past and present suddenly collide for them in the elegant mansion filled with tender memories and haunting...
2) 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.
3) Roll with it
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease.
Author
Series
Terrible two volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Miles Murphy is not happy to be moving to Yawnee Valley, a sleepy town that's famous for one thing and one thing only: cows. In his old school, everyone knew him as the town's best prankster, but Miles quickly discovers that Yawnee Valley already has a prankster, and a great one. If Miles is going to take the title from this mystery kid, he is going to have to raise his game. It's prankster against prankster in an epic war of trickery, until the two...
6) Rotters
Author
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Joey's life takes a very strange turn when his mother's tragic death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father he has never known, and who is the town pariah.
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
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages [large print] ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Longing for an escape from her extended Filipino family, Lou plans to build a tiny house on land she inherited from her father, but difficulties quickly arise.
9) New kid
Author
Series
New kids novels volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2014
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A troubled kid finds his bearings in a new school after a baseball coach offers him a spot on the team"--Provided by publisher.
10) Little monsters
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Kacey moves in with her estranged father and his new family, her new friend goes missing and Kacey finds herself at the center of the investigation.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
57 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Third grader María Isabel, born in Puerto Rico and now living in the U.S., wants badly to fit in at school; and the teacher's writing assignment "My Greatest Wish" gives her that opportunity.
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.
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
After the loss of both his father and grandfather, sixteen-year-old Matthew moves from Queens to Manhattan with his mother. There he learns to navigate a new school, a new neighborhood and a neighbor upstairs, Lou Reed.
15) Season of wonder
Author
Series
Haven Point volume 9
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dani and her daughters need to get out of New York. So when the retiring Haven Point veterinarian offers her a chance to take over his practice in the small Idaho town, she takes it. Adjusting to the charming mountain community isn't easy, but their next-door-neighbor, Deputy Sheriff Ruben Morales, is everything Dani's secretly wanted"--
16) Eventown
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
To Elodee, eleven, things seem a little too perfect in Eventown when she moves there with her parents and identical twin, Naomi, especially since forgetting the past is so highly valued.
Author
Series
New kids novels volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 p.
Language
English
Description
"The companion novel to New Kid, where Brock is in another new town after being on the run with his dad again, and this time, he joins the football team"--
18) Where's Jamela?
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Mama gets a new job and a new house, everyone is excited about moving except Jamela who likes her old house just fine.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017].
Physical Desc
x, 117 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows perceptive, astute Anna as she strives to grow a perfect garden -- only to realize that the garden she grows with her new friend is more than good enough, weeds and all.
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