"This book uses vivid picture scenes to describe a child's inner feelings during stressful (although not always bad) situations. Dragons roar, storms crash, and bats stare as different situations are resolved (or diminished) through small acts of connection by someone "on the outside.""--

Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock -- the miniature Borrowers -- depend for their livelihood on the "human beans" whose cottage they live in. So when they discover that their humans are moving away, the Borrowers are forced to find a new home and a new family to borrow from. With the help of the wild Borrower boy Spiller, they make a harrowing journey down the cottage drain in a soap dish and are soon living in a teakettle by a river. But the poor Borrowers...

When her mother uproots them again to another home and takes a job as housekeeper, ten-year-old Mavis is determined to find a best friend in Landry, Alabama, where the summer also holds the promise of friendship and change for a sad man, a stray dog, and a timid girl.

Celie Valentine has moved to a new area and must adjust.

When her family moves across the country, a young girl learns to adjust to her new home, discovering that while some things change, others remain the same.

Seda, sixteen, feels her invisible childhood nemesis, Sawyer, growing stronger just as a group of stranded teens takes shelter from a blizzard in the dilapidated mansion Seda's mother inherited.

Twelve-year-old Hattie grew up in Brooklyn, so her family's move to a small town in Massachusetts required a lot of adjustments, but by the time sixth-grade starts she has several new friends--but when she somehow invokes the harvest festival jinx, suddenly none of her new friends even recognize her, and she must find a way to break the spell.

A humorous, heartfelt, and fashion-filled middle-grade contemporary novel about Macy Weaver, a young girl struggling with how to be her true self and make a best friend - during a tumultuous year when her mom goes back to college.

When Sally’s family moves to Miami Beach for the winter of 1947, she is excited and nervous at the same time. What will school be like in Florida? Will she make any friends? Will she fit in so far away from home?
Miami Beach has so many things to worry and wonder about, Sally is in for one unforgettable winter!

"When her mother is deployed overseas, a young girl is temporarily parted from her beloved dog"--