Solis, Nicholas
Summary: "When a boy notices the new girl collecting litter on their walks home, he wants to know why. She shows him the mural she's created that reminds her of the home she left behind. They both find how wonderful it is to make a new friend."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SOLHoberman, Mary Ann.
Summary: A special quilt keeps a little girl from feeling homesick when she sleeps over with her grandparents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HoberHolabird, Katharine
Summary: "Angelina and the other mouselings at Miss Lilly's Ballet School perform Cinderella on tour, battling homesickness and bad luck to ensure the show will go on"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2024
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Summary: Growing up in Pakistan, Maria Latif has been bounced between reluctant relatives for as long as she can remember--first because of her parents' constant travel, and then because of their deaths. Maria has always been a difficult child, and it never takes long for her guardians to tire of her. So when old friends of her parents offer to "give her a better life" in the United States, Maria is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RIAHershey, Mary.
Summary: Initially excited about going to Camp Wickitawa with the rest of her class over spring vacation, fourth-grader Effie is horrified to discover that her bossy older sister is going to be a camp cook, and even worse, she unexpectedly becomes hopelessly homesick upon her arrival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HERUmrigar, Thrity N.
Summary: "A young immigrant girl joins her aunt and uncle in a new country that is unfamiliar to her. She struggles with loneliness, with a fierce longing for the culture and familiarity of home, until one day, her aunt takes her on a walk. As the duo strolls through their city park, the girl's aunt begins to tell her an old myth, and a story within the story begins"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE UMRRiva, Renee.
Summary: "A. J. Degulio loved the idea of a visit to the Old Country... until her family decided to stay. Now it's 1972 and she's turning fourteen in a crumbling castle on a hill in Tuscany, wishing she were back in Idaho with her beloved dog, Sailor. In Italy, her blonde hair makes her stick out like a vanilla wafer in a box of chocolate biscotti, and she's so lonely her best friend is a nun from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: David C. Cook 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVKobald, Irena
Summary: A homesick little girl who has recently moved to an unfamiliar country comforts herself by clinging to an old blanket, but when she meets a new friend, the relationship helps her take her first steps into a new culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KOBCreech, Sharon.
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Mary Lou grows up considerably during the summer while learning about romance, homesickness, death, and her cousin's search for his biological father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CRELewis, Beverly
Summary: Lena Rose Schwartz hadn't planned to leave her Old Order community in Centerville, Michigan. But then, she could not have foreseen the accident that made her and her siblings orphans. After her parents' funeral, her younger brothers and sisters are farmed out to various nearby relatives. But when the deacon in charge of the arrangements tells her there aren't places enough for everyone, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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Summary: When Ruby's homesickness spreads to other students at Master Willow's School for Ninjas, she uses all of the skills she has learned to help them feel better. Includes instructions for making a dragon toy two different ways.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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Summary: "When Ren moves to Ava's city, he feels lost without the green and magic of his home, but not everything in the city is what meets the eye and Ren discovers that nothing makes you feel at home quite like a friend"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOASay, Allen.
Summary: A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1993
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JEN Caldecott SayStewart, Sarah
Summary: A little girl moves to the United States from Mexico with her family and writes letters to her aunt in Mexico about her new life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Stewart 2012Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE STEFleming, Denise
Summary: When Buster the dog's owner goes away for a few days, he sends Buster to Sagebrush Kennels for Cowboy Camp, where Buster is homesick at first, but then has fun herding balls into the corral, gathering sticks for a campfire, and making wanted posters with his pawprints.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2008