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Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When Buster the dog's owner goes away for a few days, he sends Buster to Sagebrush Kennels for Cowboy Camp, where Buster is homesick at first, but then has fun herding balls into the corral, gathering sticks for a campfire, and making wanted posters withhis pawprints.
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
An engineer in Vietnam is shaken when he discovers why his company's planes are getting lost, a marriage between a Thai Muslim and an American woman sparks a terrible family fight, and a young woman in 1920s Siam experiences her brother's colonial stance.
Author
Publisher
Helpingwords
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Stover the pig is going off to overnight camp for the first time ... The camp is very diverse, and all different types of campers come to camp. The name of the camp is 'Camp Welcome'--where everyone is welcome ... In the process of being away from home, Stover will experience many new things, including a bout with homesickness, and he will also get a chance to try many new activities. He will also learn much about himself."--
10) My two blankets
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
A homesick little girl who has recently moved to an unfamiliar country comforts herself by clinging to an old blanket, but when she meets a new friend, the relationship helps her take her first steps into a new culture.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Devastated when her parents separate, twelve-year-old Rebecca must move with her mother from Baltimore to Gran's house in Atlanta, where Rebecca discovers an old bread box with the power to grant any wish--so long as the wished-for thing fits in the bread box.
13) Wild girl
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a horse ranch in New York, she has a hard time adjusting to her changed circumstances, as does a new horse that has come to the ranch.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Amy, who has never spent a night away from home, declares that she wants to spend not one night but three nights at her grandma's house. So she packs a bag, and off she goes. She and Grandma have a lovely time until Amy is alone in her bed and starts to worry. Luckily she has brought three things from home to help her get through the night in remarkable ways"--Front flap.
18) My tree
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A boy makes a connection with a plum tree after moving to a new home"--
19) The crossroads
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Jaime, twelve, and Angela, fifteen, discover what it means to be living as undocumented immigrants in the United States, while news from home gets increasingly worse.
Author
Series
Iris and Walter volume 4
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Iris's first sleepover at her friend Walter's house ends early when Iris becomes homesick and wants to go home.
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