Brown-Wood, JaNay
Summary: "When Rosie and the rest of the Love Puppies find out that Meiko is struggling to make friends at her new school, they are sure they can sniff out a solution! But it takes more than magic to break the ice. If they can be creative, these caring canines might just find a lonely girl her paw-fect match!"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BROSchufman, Matthew
Summary: Lonely forest ranger Fraser sets out on an adventure to find a new friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023
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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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Summary: 'Seven years ago, the Ballastian sisters' parents left them in the magical Straygarden Place, a house surrounded by tall silver grass and floating trees. They left behind a warning saying never to leave the house or go into the grass. "Wait for us," the note read. "Sleep darkly." Ever since then, the house itself has taken care of Winnow, Mayhap, and Pavonine--feeding them, clothing them, even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHESchmidt, Gary D.
Summary: With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHKreiser, Patricia
Summary: Two otters are always together, always sharing adventures--until one day one of them is gone, and nothing is the same.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE KREClements, Andrew
Summary: A big, ugly fish has trouble making the friends he longs for because of his appearance--until the day his scary appearance saves them all from a fisherman's net.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Book Studio 1988
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CLECuevas, Michelle
Summary: "The whimsical story a man who has spent his life delivering the messages found in ocean bottles and the day he receives a message that turns out to be a party invitation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CUECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CUEEvans, Rebecca
Summary: When Liling moves from her home in the mountains of China to the big city, her parents cannot afford to send her to school, and she spends her days with her mother, wishing she had a friend--until she sees a girl in a yellow coat, who lives in the next building, comes from a different mountain, and is happy to be Liling's friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE EVARex, Adam
Summary: All the fruits gather together and enjoy a rhyming party, but poor Orange feels left out because he does not rhyme with anything--until Apple invents a new word.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Rex 2017Martin, Ann M.
Summary: In parallel stories, Bone, an orphaned dog, finds and loses a series of homes, Sunny, a family pet, helps Charlie through the grief and other after-effects of his brother's death, and lonely Henry pleads for a dog of his own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MARBrett, Jan
Summary: 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 similar to the one in the familiar tale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE BreCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BRESaltzberg, Barney
Summary: "Dog and Rabbit are both a little lonely and in search of a friend, but Rabbit is initially too distracted by the bunny he sees through the window to notice that Dog is just the friend that he has been looking for"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SALO'Shaughnessy, Kate
Summary: Eleven-year-old Maybelle Lane collects sounds. She records the Louisiana crickets chirping, Momma strumming her guitar, their broken trailer door squeaking. But the crown jewel of her collection is a sound she didn't collect herself: an old recording of her daddy's warm-sunshine laugh, saved on an old phone's voicemail. It's the only thing she has of his, and the only thing she knows about him....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC OS'HSherry, Kevin
Summary: A giant turtle's loneliness ends when a boatload of animals is shipwrecked and makes a temporary home on his shell. But when they decide to sail for home, will the turtle be alone once more?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E SHEBattersby, Katherine.
Summary: A lonely little rabbit wants to make a friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BATMetzger, Cécile
Summary: "A simple act of kindness brings two unlikely friends together in this profound picture book about the transformative power of friendship. A bear sits in his quiet, colorless home in a forgotten place. He feels invisible; no one comes to see him, and he spends his days alone. Then someone moves in next door. Madame Odette is sound and sunshine, and at first, the bear isn't sure about this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2020
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Summary: "Gator has just never seemed to fit in with the other neighborhood pets--probably because he has a nasty hait of eating the other neighborhood pets. Flushed down the toilet as just a little snapper, Gator spends his days alone in the sewers. On the streets above, little Gabby has never seemed to fit in with the other kids in town. She'd rather collect bottles and practice her tuba than gossip...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2020
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Summary: When the Bubble Guppies discover a lonely rhinoceros at the zoo, they are determined to find a friend for him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company 2014
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH TILDiCamillo, Kate
Summary: One summer's day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries - and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It's because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it's because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students from wealthy backgrounds. In a parallel story, Matt Coffin has wound up on the Maine coast near St. Elene's with a pillowcase full of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
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Summary: Caspian lives alone in a lighthouse surrounded by the cold gray-blue sea, longing for a friend; so one day he puts a message in a bottle and floats it away in the sea--but the friend who finds it is someone completely unexpected.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2019
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Summary: Dragon is lonely so he goes looking for a friend and when an apple falls on his head he is convinced that he has found one; but at home Apple is quiet and unresponsive, and when a visit to the doctor only makes things worse, Dragon mourns the loss of hisfriend--until an apple tree grows where Apple is buried.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PILSalsbury, Sandra
Summary: "Roland lives a quiet life filled with art, music and tea parties for one. It's a nice life, but sometimes he feels rather lonely. And then one day, Roland finds the perfect companion. Milton may just be a pine cone, but they have so much in common. Milton also happens to enjoy drawing, listening to music, and drinking tea. And he's also alone. But there are signs in the woods, suggesting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021