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House of dolls
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Francesca Lia Block |
In a little house from another time, with lace curtains in every window and paintings hung in gold doily frames, Wildflower, Rockstar, and Miss Selene live a warm and cozy life. They wear fancy dress… |
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The Big Ugly Monster and the Little Stone Rabbit
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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… |
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Big friends
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Margery Cuyler |
Big Hasuni is scared off, after he accidentally destroys a campsite while investigating the plume of smoke rising above an island; only to find a disaster waiting for him at his mountain camp upon hi… |
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Gingerbread friends
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Jan Brett |
Lonely Gingerbread Baby, having set out to find a friend, enters a bakery where he tries to talk to different cookies and other figures, but winds up leading a crowd back to his house on a chase simi… |
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Caribou Island
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David Vann |
On a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, a marriage is unravelling. Gary, driven by thirty years of diverted plans, and Irene, haunted by a tragedy in her past, are trying… |
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The Last Brother
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Nathacha Appanah-Mouriquand,Nathacha Appanah |
Translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan |
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The happy lion roars
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Louise Fatio |
The happy lion was unhappy--he was living all alone in his house and lonely. What to do? |
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An angel for Solomon Singer
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Cynthia Rylant |
A lonely New York City resident finds companionship and good cheer at the Westway Cafe where dreams come true. |
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Scrawny cat
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Phyllis Root |
A lost, lonely, and scrawny cat, hungry and afraid, unexpectedly meets someone who takes him in and loves him. |
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Solomon Crocodile
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Catherine Rayner |
Solomon Crocodile's rough play prevents him from making friends down by the river until a stranger comes stomping through the reeds! |
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Mr. Prickles
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Kara LaReau |
Excluded by the other forest animals for not being cute, cuddly, and playful, a porcupine feels lonely and angry until he finds a prickly companion, Miss Pointypants. |
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Peas Book of Best Friends
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Susie Day (Undifferentiated) |
Sisters Clover, Pea, and Tinkerbell have always been beans-on-toast, hand-me-down-wellies sorts of girls. But when their dizzy but dazzling single mum becomes Marina Cove, author of the bestselling M… |
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Feeling left out
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Kate Petty |
New to the neighborhood, Chris feels left out of various games and social events. |
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The lonely only dog
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Adele M. Brodkin |
A dog who longs for someone to play with finds out how good life is as an only pet when another dog comes to visit. |
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Making friends
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Sarah Levete |
Discusses the importance of friendships, from making friends to resolving disagreements, and how to deal with feelings such as jealousy, shyness, and rejection. |
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Serpent tide
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K. L. Fogg |
Lonely and overprotected, Wesley soon finds himself on a fantastic adventure. |
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Switching Tracks
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Dean Hughes |
A lonely ninth grader struggling with a sense of responsibility for his father's suicide learns that his new friend has cancer. |
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The pencil
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Allan Ahlberg |
A lonely pencil timidly draws a boy, a dog, and other items but soon faces a problem as his creations begin demanding changes, and when he draws an eraser to make them happy, the real trouble begins. |
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Megabat
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Anna Humphrey |
Megabat was just napping on a papaya one day when he was stuffed in a box and shipped halfway across the world. Now he's living in an old house far from home, feeling sorry for himself and accidental… |
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Loneliness
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John T. Cacioppo |
A sense of isolation or social rejection disrupts not only our thinking abilities and will power but also our immune systems, and can be as damaging as obesity or smoking. A blend of biological and s… |
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