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Language
English
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Description
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. Until the day she hears that laugh -- his laugh -- pouring...
4) Alone
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
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 alone--left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own. Her only companions are a Rottweiler named George and all the books she can read. After a rough start, Maddie...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
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.
7) Little Brown
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Little Brown is grumpy and lonely at the dog park, until he decides to take matters into his own hands."--
Author
Series
Every day volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
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.
12) Hanukkah hamster
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Acorn/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
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 his friend--until an apple tree grows where Apple is buried.
14) Alone like me
Author
Publisher
Anne Schwartz Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When Lìlíng 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 Lìlíng's friend.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Caterpillar wants to have a party, but all of his friends are either busy, or...aren't really his friends at all. A fun, surprising picture book about a caterpillar who finds a creative solution to loneliness." -- Provided by publisher.
16) Snow foal
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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 determined that both of them will know what is to be home...
17) Good Rosie!
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Rosie is a good dog and a faithful companion to her owner, George. She likes taking walks with George and looking at the clouds together, but the closest she comes to another dog is when she encounters her reflection in her empty dog bowl, and sometimes that makes Rosie feel lonely. One day George takes Rosie to the dog park, but the park is full of dogs that Rosie doesn't know, which makes her feel lonelier than ever. When big, loud Maurice and small,...
18) Small things
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In a wordless graphic picture book, a young boy's struggle with anxiety is represented by swarms of tiny creatures that follow and gnaw away at him. As his schoolwork and social interactions suffer, he feels more alone and out of control. He ultimately begins to overcome his isolation when he opens up to his sister and learns he is not the only one beset with worries." -- Provided by publisher.
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