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1) Inside Cat
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Told in rhyming text, Inside Cat views the world through many windows, watching the birds, squirrels, and people go by--but when the door opens it discovers a whole new view.
2) Whereabouts
Author
Series
Publisher
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Language
English
Description
"A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade. Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home, an engaging backdrop to her days, acts as a confidant:...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
April is looking for an escape from the sixth-grade lunch hour, which has become a social-scene nightmare, so she signs up to be a "buddy bench monitor" for the fourth graders' recess. Joey Byrd is a boy on the fringes, who wanders the playground alone, dragging his foot through the dirt. But over time, April realizes that Joey isn't just making random circles. When you look at his designs from above, a story emerges... Joey's "bird's eye" drawings...
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Relates how one boy--who had friends, enjoyed reading, playing saxophone in the band, and had never been in trouble before--became a monster capable of entering his high school with a loaded gun and firing on his classmates, as told from the viewpoints of several victims. Each perspective is written by a different writer of young adult fiction.
7) Look up!
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
When a girl in a wheelchair calls to people far below to look up and see her, one finds a way to brighten her day
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Publisher
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
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Description
Orange Beach, Alabama, is a simple town filled with simple people. But like all humans on the planet, the good folks of Orange Beach have their share of problems - marriages teetering on the brink of divorce, young adults giving up on life, business people on the verge of bankruptcy, as well as the many other obstacles that life seems to dish out to the masses. Fortunately, when things look darkest, a mysterious man named Jones has a miraculous way...
10) In the dark
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A young girl steps into the woods and brings two communities separated by misunderstanding together.
12) A weed is a seed
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Pairs of rhyming verses show that such things in the natural world as weeds, a breeze, sand, and ice can be seen both positively and negatively.
14) Love by Sophia
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Encouraged by her teacher to approach her art assignment from new points of view, Sophia produces a piece she is proud of, but can she persuade her hard-to-impress family to take a chance on a different perspective?
16) Inside outside
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019, c2017.
Language
English
Description
Safe inside its shell, a baby bird prepares to brave the world. A spelunker descends into a wide and glittering cavern while fellow explorers cluster around a crack in the earth. Fire-red ants march busily around their anthill, oblivious of a hungry anteater waiting above. Smart and stylish, this oversize art book takes a unique approach to the concept of inside and outside, offering clever and unexpected examples that will delight readers and spark...