Hout, Mies van
Summary: Features vivid creatures in a jewel-tone natural setting to explore the longing we all feel at times to be like somebody else.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOUWoltz, Anna
Summary: "It's the first day of the holidays and Sam is roaming the island of Texel, imagining what it'd feel like to be the last person on earth. Then, like a whirlwind, 12-year-old islander Tess swoops into his life. Sam's only option is to go along for the ride. Soon he's dancing the waltz, burying a pet canary and coming up with an especially weird plan to help Tess find her father, who doesn't even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rock the Boat, an imprint of Oneworld Publications 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WOLPosthuma, Sieb.
Summary: Mr. Coats is freezing cold. No matter how many heaters he turns on, how many blankets he sleeps under at night, or how many layers he wears, he can simply never get warm. Being this cold all the time is lonely. And loneliness is a chilly feeling. Mr. Coats thinks he'll be alone in the cold forever, but he's wrong. There's someone out there just like him.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POSTerrin, Peter
Summary: In a post-apocalyptic world, security guards Harry and Michel, living in the basement of a luxury apartment building, are charged with protecting its wealthy residents. Over the course of one weekend, all the residents leave-- except for one man on the 29th floor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MacLehose Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TERColman, Dani
Summary: "Jewish mythology says that when G-d created the universe, a tiny corner of it was left unfinished. Opinion is divided on why, but everyone agrees that it's a dangerous place full of monsters. Twelve-year-old Miriam neither knows nor cares-- she's too busy preparing for her Bat Mitzvah, wrestling with whether she even wants to be Jewish-- until a peculiar angel appears, whisking her, her two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wonderbound 2021