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Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...
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Three rancheros volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up in the middle of the night and tells her they need to leave home immediately, and this time Granny intends for them never to return.
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English
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Devastated when her parents separate, twelve-year-old Rebecca must move with her mother from Baltimore to Gran's house in Atlanta, where Rebecca discovers an old bread box with the power to grant any wish--so long as the wished-for thing fits in the bread box.
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Mickey Bolitar novels volume 1
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English
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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.
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Life of a cactus volume 1
Language
English
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New friends and a mystery help Aden, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.
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Blackberry Farm volume 1
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When New York City native Becket Branch moves to the country with her family to help run her grandmother's farm and store, she finds that new friends, hostile chickens, sour lemonade and mischief are only the beginnings of her new life.
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Terrible two volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When master prankster Miles Murphy moves to sleepy Yawnee Valley, he challenges the local mystery prankster in an epic battle of tricks but soon the two join forces to pull off the biggest prank ever seen.
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Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Dismayed when his neighbors cut down a beloved old walnut tree that has always been a source of comfort, Alder forges an unexpected friendship with the new girl next door over a series of mysterious connections.
11) Neville
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Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When a boy and his family move to a new house, he devises an ingenious way to meet people in the neighborhood.
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Series
Henry and Mudge books volume 18
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
When Henry's cousin Annie prepares to move in next door he and Mudge help calm her fears.
14) Bandit
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Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
When Bandit's family moves to a new house, the cat runs away and returns to the only home he knows, but after he is brought back, he understands that the new house is now home.
15) Dear baobab
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Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Maiko has left his village in Africa far behind, moving to live with his aunt and uncle. When he thinks of home, he thinks of the beautiful big baobab tree at the center of his village. In his new home, Maiko feels a special connection to the small spruce tree in the front yard.
16) Birdsong
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Publisher
Greystone Kids, Greystone Books
Pub. Date
c2019.
Language
English
Description
After moving to a new home, a lonely, young girl meets an elderly woman who shares her love of art and nature.
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English
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What's so perfect about the past for Sybil and Blake Gregory, a successful Manhattan couple with three children who land in San Francisco when Blake impulsively accepts the job of a lifetime as CEO of a start-up? The family moves into a grand, surprisingly affordable Pacific Heights mansion and soon meets the affable Butterfield family, who lived there a century ago. Of course the Butterfields are ghosts, and only the Gregorys can see them, but that...
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Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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When his family moves from a small Mexican village to North Carolina, Eduardo asks how soon he will feel at home, and slowly his Tio Miguel's seemingly impossible replies come true until, at last, he can put out the Nativity scene he carved with his grandfather.
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
While twins Ella and Herbie help the handyman Mr. Midal work on their new home, he tells them about such inventors as Granville Woods, Dr. Henry T. Sampson, and James West, giving them a new view of their heritage as African Americans.
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