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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the chronic turmoil of modern Zimbabwe, Abednego and Agnes Mlambo's teenage son, Bukhosi, has gone missing, and the Mlambos fear the worst. Their enigmatic lodger, Zamani, seems too helpful in the search, ingratiating himself into their lives, knowing that the one who controls the narrative inherits the future." --
Author
Language
English
Description
"In a novel inspired by Audrey Hepburn's classic film Sabrina, a caterer returns to the grand Long Island estate--now set for demolition--where she grew up as the daughter of the house manager, and where a rekindled love triangle reveals bittersweet truths about her upbringing and a shattering secret about her family."--
23) The train home
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A young girl who wishes for a place to call her own, imagines a train that takes her through the city and beyond, and she explores different places until she discovers the place she truly belongs."--
24) Swing
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
As four very different letters arrive at the playground, each makes the next feel unwelcome, but once they begin to swing together, they have a wonderful time. --
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Heaven Is A Place On Earth tells the stories of both living and long-gone Americans trying to make utopia. Within these stories is Adrian Shirk's own practical and moral inquiry: how can she live a life "in community" in America today, a life which is not organized around private property, automation, and the acquisition of personal wealth? When Shirk's father-in-law has a stroke and loses his ability to speak and walk, her husband becomes his primary...
27) Me gusta
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Multiple
Description
"A picture book that celebrates Latinx families by highlighting moments of connection and delight and feelings of safety and home, even through challenges and difficult times"--
28) about:blank
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In about:blank, Tracy Fuad builds a poetics of contemporary dissociation. Funny, plaintive, and cutting, this formally inventive debut probes alienation in place and in language through the author's consideration of her own relationship to Iraqi Kurdistan. about:blank--the title of which is the universal URL for a blank web page--complicates questions of longing and belonging. Interrogating the language of internet chatrooms, Yelp reviews, and the...
29) Shell quest
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a little slug finds new friends in the backyard, she notices they look a lot like her ... except they have shells! Maybe a shell is exactly what she needs to fit in--but finding one is a lot harder than it sounds!"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The #1 New York Times bestseller written and illustrated by Criminal Minds actor/director, Matthew Gray Gubler. This charming and inspiring story is the perfect gift-- graduation or anytime-- for kids (and grown-up kids) alike!Rumple Buttercup has five crooked teeth, three strands of hair, green skin, and his left foot is slightly bigger than his right. He is weird. Join him and Candy Corn Carl (his imaginary friend made of trash) as they learn the...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A poetically told immigration story that fosters understanding and beautifully articulates how the desire to belong and the need for human connection are universal highlights the character education traits of resilience, kindness, and empathy."--
32) The heirloom
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"After her widowed father remarries, nineteen-year-old Clara Bender is no longer needed to help run his household. Marriage seems like her best hope of moving out, but there are few young men in her tiny Indiana Amish community. When she comes across letters from her mother's aunt Ella Mae Zook, she sets off to visit Lancaster County's Hickory Hollow to decide where her future lies. Ella Mae is not quite ready to move from the farmhouse where she...
33) Home for a while
Author
Publisher
Magination Press, an imprint of the American Psychological Association
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Calvin has lived in many houses that never felt like home, but Maggie, his new foster mother, helps him deal with his emotions when he misbehaves, and still offers hugs.--
34) The orphan witch
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A deeper magic. A stronger curse. A family lost...and found. Persephone May has been alone her entire life. Abandoned as an infant and dragged through the foster care system, she wants nothing more than to belong somewhere. To someone. However, Persephone is as strange as she is lonely. Unexplainable things happen when she's around-changes in weather, inanimate objects taking flight-and those who seek to bring her into their family quickly cast her...
35) Nat for nothing
Author
Series
Nat enough ; 4
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"When her best friend and ex-BFF join the volleyball team, Natalie feels betrayed and, unable to find an extracurricular activity that interests her, meets a new student with the same problem and together they come up with a solution."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On Belonging is an exploration of the crisis of social isolation and of the fundamental human need to belong. It considers belonging across four core dimensions: in our relationships with other people, in our rootedness in nature, in our ability to influence political and economic decision-making, and in our finding of meaning and purpose in our lives, with lessons on how to create communities centered on human connection"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his brothers and sisters ruin his favorite alphabet book, Teetu the bunny has had enough of his big bunny family! When he sneaks off into the night, what he discovers is more marvelous than he ever dreamed. He sees animals and trees and beauty and moonlight, and puts his adventures into a new book he creates all by himself. But soon Teetu tires of being alone, and just as it gets to be too much...a big fluffy surprise comes to save the day!--...
38) Trevor
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Trevor is lonely and looking for a friend. He stretches his wings the length of his boring cage and notices the tree outside stretching its branch. And on the end of that branch? Perhaps a new friend. But one that is quiet and shy. Trevor knows just how to make him feel comfortable. This is an elegantly told, truly unique tale of a canary who befriends a lemon and finds that you don't have to be two of a kind to form a meaningful and lasting friendship."...
39) Be a bridge
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Upbeat rhyming verse and colorful illustrations of a diverse group of students invite readers to "be a bridge" by taking actions that foster inclusivity, respect, and connection"--
40) Wolf girl
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sophy is a shy girl who struggles to fit in in the outside world. She is happiest at home, playing in her wolf suit in her den. It makes her feel strong like a wolf, fierce like a wolf, and maybe even a little bit brave like a wolf. But one day, an extraordinary thing happens... Sophy is whisked away to a magical snowy land where she meets a wolf and her cub. The unlikely trio roll, run and howl together, playing happily in the snow. Sophy has found...
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