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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 traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students...
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"Bush Baby is so lonely--nobody wants to be her friend. Giraffe thinks she's too small. She's not pink enough for Flamingo. They just can't they see past how she looks. Lion, however, thinks she is just right to be his friend. And he'd never be so rude as to eat a friend. Is Bush Baby very brave, very foolish, or just very, very lonely?"--OCLC.
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Turtle wants to go on an adventure! On a boring, ordinary day, Turtle worries his friends are having fun without him. Squirrel must be happily racing through the forest gathering nuts, Rabbit is probably riding on a giant red tractor and harvesting carrots, and Bee must be exploring dark and creepy caves. But Turtle is all alone. So Turtle goes on a hunt for his friends. Will he find his adventure?
9) Mr. Coats
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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.--
12) Ghastly ghosts
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Old Dave ignores strange noises he hears in the lonely old cottage he inherited from his uncle, except the voice telling him there are ghastly ghosts in the coal shed.
13) Herman and Rosie
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In New York City, a "groovy little jazz number" brings together a lonely crocodile and deer.
14) Sand sister
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When lonely Paloma goes to the beach and wishes that she had a sister to play with, the girl she draws in the sand comes magically alive, and at day's end her parents give her the good news of a new baby on the way.
15) Spare parts
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While searching for a replacement heart at the Spare Parts Mart, a lonely robot finds a friend.
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Wind dancers volume 1
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Four tiny, flying horses suddenly come into being, blown out of a dandelion by a lonely girl, and set out to discover who they are and what they are supposed to do with their magical powers.
17) To wake the dead
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Grant is invited the attend a midnight horror movie by a ghost, but will he be able to leave?
19) Dog and Rabbit
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"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.
20) Friends
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"A girl from a faraway place begins her first day at school. She doesn't speak the language and she looks different. She just doesn't fit in. But one day, she makes an unexpected friend--a squirrel! Then a rabbit joins them. Soon the girl's fuzzy woodland friends are followed by human ones and school becomes more fun! When a surprising new student joins the class, the girl and her new friends know just how to make him feel at home."--
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