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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Big Ugly Monster and the Little Stone Rabbit	Christopher Wormell	Once, in a cave, lived a horrible ugly monster. Perhaps the most horrible and ugly monster in the world. So ugly is the monster that he can turn a blue sky to snow and evaporate a pond just by dip…	OL15023533W
The geeks shall inherit the earth	Alexandra Robbins	In a smart, entertaining, reassuring book that reads like fiction, Alexandra Robbins manages to cross Gossip Girl with Freaks and Geeks and explain the fascinating psychology and science behind popul…	OL15746236W
Pitʻom be-ʻomeḳ ha-yaʻar	Amos Oz	1 volume	OL1580820W
How does it feel to be old?	Norma Farber	Old age explains to youth some of the thoughts and feelings, advantages and disadvantages that accompany being old.	OL15964695W
An angel for Solomon Singer	Cynthia Rylant	A lonely New York City resident finds companionship and good cheer at the Westway Cafe where dreams come true.	OL16071276W
Mr. Hacker	James Stevenson	Mr. Hacker begins to regret his move from the noisy city to the quiet country, until he is befriended by a stray cat and dog.	OL16075246W
Scrawny cat	Phyllis Root	A lost, lonely, and scrawny cat, hungry and afraid, unexpectedly meets someone who takes him in and loves him.	OL16441482W
Teeth	Hannah Moskowitz	"Rudy's life is flipped upside-down when his family moves to a remote, magical island in a last attempt to save his sick younger brother, Dylan. While Dylan recovers, Rudy sinks deeper and deeper int…	OL16681470W
Mooncop	Tom Gauld	From back cover: The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new super highway. As our hero, the mooncop, makes his daily rounds, his beat grows ever smaller, the pop…	OL17616846W
The desperates	Greg Kearney	In telling the intersecting stories of Edmund, Teresa, and Joel - all of whom leave trails of hopeful chaos in their wake - Greg Kearney has painted a blackly comic, yet surprisingly earnest, portrai…	OL17885004W
The dog who cried wolf	Keiko Kasza	Tired of being a house pet, Moka the dog moves to the mountains to become a wolf but soon misses the comforts of home.	OL1876486W
Blue horse	Helen Stephens	Shy Tilly is new in town with a toy horse as her only friend, but her adventures with him help her to find the courage to ask another solitary girl to play.	OL19046413W
Superpowerless	Chris Priestley	343 pages : 20 cm	OL19586567W
Mr. Brown's fantastic hat	Ayano Imai	"Sometimes when you are most in need of friends, they will flock to you- or at least to your hat" -- On back cover.	OL19991903W
The lonely ones	Kelsey Sutton	The stress of her father's job loss causes Fain to feel invisible at home and in her new school, but she escapes with the monsters of her imagination until a family crisis and a human friend cause he…	OL20025582W
Millions of cats	Wanda Gág	Millions of Cats is a wonderful tale of vanity versus humility, written and illustrated by the singular Wanda Gag. An old man and his wife decide to get a cat, so the old man goes out in search of th…	OL2013432W
Can I Tell You about Loneliness?	Julian Stern,Helen Lees	64 pages : 23 cm	OL21605800W
The jazzman	Mary Hays Weik	Nine-year-old Zeke, who lives in Harlem, listens to the wonderful music coming from the jazz musician's piano across the court and escapes for a while from the harsh realities that worry him.	OL22073779W
Farewell sadness	Roxane Marie Galliez	A young boy is overwhelmed by a great sadness, but manages to overcome it and emerge stronger and happier, thanks to a girl who makes him laugh.	OL23437853W
La boîte à bibittes	Linda Lapointe	Catastrophe! L'ordinateur de Simon vient de rendre l'âme. C'était son unique plaisir dans sa vie de misère d'enfant de famille monoparentale. Ayant peu confiance en son avenir, il se considère comme …	OL24275973W