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9) Roof octopus
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nora is the first to notice a very large octopus on top of her apartment building, which proves to be a very good neighbor but leaves all too soon.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Larry does not like it when his loud, flashy grandmother comes to visit, especially when she talks about taking him to Tanzania or the South Seas one day, but after a huge summer storm damages their home and valley, he sees another side of Grammy Lamby.
12) Echo Mountain
Author
Language
English
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Description
When twelve-year-old Ellie and her family lose livelihood and move to a mountain cabin in 1934, she quickly learns to be an outdoors woman and, when needed, a healer.
14) May I come in?
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Raccoon does not want to be alone on a stormy night but his neighbors, Possum, Quail, and Woodchuck, each tell him they have no room to spare.
16) The paper cowboy
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In a small town near Chicago in 1953, twelve-year-old Tommy faces escalating problems at home, among his Catholic school friends, and with the threat of a communist living nearby, but taking over his hospitalized sister's paper route introduces him to neighbors who he comes to rely on for help.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Anno: Possum looked out one summer afternoon. "Time to come in!" he called to his baby possums. "It looks like we?re in for some weather!" Possum calls his children out of the summer storm?but what can he do when their home is swept away by rising water? The possum family must rely on their friends to construct a new house. At first it seems that no other animal's home is suited for a possum, but they come up with something spectacular!...
19) Holes in the sky
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Soon after her beloved grandmother's death, Trisha's family moves to a diverse California neighborhood where she meets Stewart and his grandmother, Miss Eula, who brings people together to help a grieving neighbor.
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