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Howatt, William A.

Summary: "A mental health expert and addictions counsellor shows readers how to move away from isolation and loneliness, and build authentic connections."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Page Two Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.2 HOW

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BRO

Krulik, Nancy E.

Summary: Even though she thinks Charlie Brown is a hopeless case, Lucy the "psychiatrist" is still willing to give him advice--for five cents a visit.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2011

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE KRU

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE KRU

Bailey, Susanna

Summary: When eleven-year-old Addie goes to stay with a foster-care family on a remote Exmoor farm in the midst of a very cold winter, she is full of hurt, anger and a deep mistrust of everyone around her. Until one day, when she rescues a tiny wild foal from the moorland snow and Addie discovers that perhaps she's not so alone after all. And as adventure and unexpected friendship blossom, Addie is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BAI

Levithan, David

Summary: When A learns he is not the only person waking up in a different person's body every day, he gains new understanding of the extremes where love and loneliness can lead. Told from multiple perspectives.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEV

Summary: A psychotic taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated with a political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams don't work out.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TAX

Dawson, Mike

Summary: "Just when Lori starts to get comfortable, things change again. Lori's friends have found new interests. Her dad goes back to work for the first time since she was born. And when her mom decides to start coaching in the new after-school basketball league, Lor''s home life collides with her passion. To make matters worse, all her friends are playing for the opposing team. Lori feels frustrated...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DAW

Markel, Michelle

Summary: After finding a hamster that has been left behind in his taxi, a lonely immigrant cab driver celebrates Hanukkah with the little creature, while waiting to learn if the owner will return.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Holidays, Call number: JE MAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MAR

Burks, James (James R.)

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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Kreiser, Patricia

Summary: Two otters are always together, always sharing adventures--until one day one of them is gone, and nothing is the same.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, an imprint of Capstone 2024

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE KRE

Nagata, Kabi

Summary: The heart-rending autobiographical manga that's taken the internet by storm! My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is an honest and heartfelt look at one young woman's exploration of her sexuality, mental well-being, and growing up in our modern age. Told using expressive artwork that invokes both laughter and tears, this moving and highly entertaining single volume depicts not only the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2017

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NAG

Tillworth, Mary

Summary: When the Bubble Guppies discover a lonely rhinoceros at the zoo, they are determined to find a friend for him.

Format: text

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 TIL

Mullarkey, Lisa

Summary: First year camper Kianna Drake is technically too young to be a Pony Girl at Storm Cliff Stables, but in two days she will be officially eight and she is feeling homesick and a little left out, because the other Pony Girls do not seem to care.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2016

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MUL

Brett, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2008

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE Bre

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BRE

Bruchac, Joseph

Summary: It's a dark night. Wolf Cub feels lonely and sad. Can she overcome her fear and find her voice to sing for Grandmother Moon?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BRU

Chewins, Hayley

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHE

Freeman, Megan E.

Summary: Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town. When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2021

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC FRE

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FRE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FRE

Hale, Shannon

Summary: Eleven-year-old Diana, the gangly, sometimes clumsy, only child on the island of Themyscira, struggles to live up to the high Amazonian standards and longs for someone her own age whom she can talk to.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 HAL

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC HAL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Hale 2020

Johnston, Tony

Summary: A wandering cat brightens the lives of six lonely people--and persuades all of them to feed him until a near accident brings them all together.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOH

Rex, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2017

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Rex 2017

TerKeurst, Lysa

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: New York Times bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst leans into the deeply personal topic of rejection and takes readers on a journey to explore its roots; the lies we believe as a result; and the truth about who God is, who we are, and what it looks like to live loved. --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248 TER

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248 TER

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248 TER

Beaumont, Karen

Summary: In this charming counting book, a lonely old man discovers one kitty on his front step. But he does not want a kitty cat - scat! As the number of kitties grows, will the man find room in his heart-and home-for his new feline friends? A counting picture book in rhyme about a lonely old man whose heart is slowly melted by an ever-growing number of kitties hoping to find a home.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2018

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Bradman, Tony.

Summary: Little Red Riding Hood is worried about her Granny. Granny's recovered from her scare with the Big Bad Wolf, but she's lonely. Thankfully Little Red Riding Hood is on the case! She is ready to find her Granny some new hobbies and some new friends.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2009

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BRA

Elliott, Rachel

Summary: First, there were the flamingos. And then there were two families. Sherry and Leslie and their daughters, Rae and Pauline - and Eve and her son Daniel. Sherry loves her husband, Leslie. She also loves Eve. It couldn't have been a happier summer. But then Eve left and everything went grey. Now Daniel is all grown-up and broken. And when he turns up at Sherry's door, it's almost as if they've all...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tinder Press 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ELL

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