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Author
Series
Meet your match volume 1
Publisher
HEA Publishing
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
After years of pinching pennies and struggling to get through art school, Emma Makie's hard work finally pays off with the offer of a dream job. But when tragedy strikes, she has no choice but to make a cross-country move to Colorado Springs to take temporary custody of her two nieces. She has no money, no job prospects, and no idea how to be a mother to two little girls, but she isn't about to let that stop her. Nor is she about to accept the help...
362) Your house, my house
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A glimpse into a day in the life of the different residents who live alongside one another in an apartment building at 3 Biscuit Street. Centring on the Bunny family, readers will also discover another 11 mini-narratives in the illustrations, where they'll see what the apartment building's other residents are up to on every floor, track the antics of passersby, and observe the Bird family in the neighbouring tree. This multilayered (and multilevel!)...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Mei and Satsuki are adjusting to their new country home and have made friends with the neighbor boy Kanta, but life without their mother is still difficult, and Granny and Totori have taken it upon themselves to watch over the two girls.
364) The goldfish boy
Author
Language
English
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Description
Emotionally crippled by his obsessive-compulsive disorder, teenager Matthew Corbin rarely leaves his room on a cul-de-sac in London, and he passes the day observing and writing down his neighbors doings from his window--but when a toddler staying next door disappears Matt is the key to solving a mystery and possibly saving a child's life...if he can manage to expose himself, and his secret guilt to the outside world.
365) Waiting for Sophie
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Liam finds it hard to be patient while waiting for his sister to be born, then while waiting for her to grow up, so he builds something to speed up the process with the help of Nana-Downstairs.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Amy Ashton once dreams of becoming an artist and creating beautiful objects. Now she simply collects them-and they take up every available inch of space in her house. After a tragedy in her life, she's decided that it's easier to love things than people. When a family with two young boys moves next door, one of the boys has a collection of his own. His love of bulldozers makes Amy begin to question why she began to close herself off in the first place....
368) No water no bread
Author
Series
Publisher
NubeOcho
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Two groups of people live separated by a barbed wire fence. One group has plenty of water and the other plenty of bread, but they have difficulty sharing their resources with each other. What happens when a third group arrives that has neither?"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Rear window: A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Vertigo: A former police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with a hauntingly beautiful woman.
Psycho: A Phoenix secretary embezzles cash from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Rear window: A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Vertigo: A former police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with a hauntingly beautiful woman.
Psycho: A Phoenix secretary embezzles cash from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his...
371) Mouse & Giraffe
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Mouse and Giraffe are neighbors, but because of their relative sizes, their experiences are very different, so they usually disagree; however, when Mouse catches cold, they find something they both agree on.
372) St. Vincent
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Maggie, a single mother, moves into a new home in Brooklyn with her twelve-year old son, Oliver. Forced to work long hours, she has no choice but to leave Oliver in the care of their new neighbor, Vincent, a retired curmudgeon with a desire for alcohol and gambling. An odd friendship soon blossoms between the improbable pair. Together with a pregnant stripper, named Daka, Vincent brings Oliver along on all the stops that make up his daily routine,...
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When a young woman, Sarah Connelly, is found murdered in her home in New York's elite Sleepy Point suburb, it triggers questions about the neighbor who discovered the body, Audrey Hughes. This kind of attention is the last thing Audrey wants. Moving to Sleepy Point was supposed to provide her with a new, quiet start after a trauma left her with incurable blindness. But the other reason she settled next door to Sarah was to spy on her. Police scrutiny...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, una imprenta de Capstone
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
¡Yasmin la superheroína! Tiene una capa. Tiene una máscara.¡Ahora solo necesita un villano para vencer! Mientras busca uno, encuentra mucha gente que necesita ayuda, pero no son malos. ¡Yasmin descubre que no necesita un malo para usar sus superpoderes!
Yasmin gathers a cape and mask and sets out to find a villain to defeat with her "super powers"--however there are no villains hiding on her block, just neighbors who need a little help.
Author
Series
Katie the catsitter volume 2
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Katie now knows her neighbor Madeline is also the Mousetress, the city's most feared villain (or most misunderstood superhero), and she is ready to become the super sidekick she always wanted to be.
Author
Series
There's a dragon in volume 4
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Eric and his Mini-Dragon, Pan, decide to enter a competition for young filmmakers. If only they had something better to film on than Mom's old cell phone. Then Toby steps in, offering to lend Eric some equipment, and before long he has taken over the project completely. Can Pan work behind the scenes to bring Eric's original vision to life? Eric and Pan the Mini-Dragon love going to the movies. So when they hear about a short film competition, they...
377) Snow birds
Author
Series
Beak and Ally volume 4
Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Beak loves the snow, but his hopes are dashed when Ally informs him the swamp stays warm year-round and not much changes. As a matter of fact, the only big change is that it gets a lot more crowded! Beak soon discovers what Ally means when the snow birds arrive... Hawaiian shirt-wearing, music-jamming new neighbors who have flown south for the winter. At first, Beak is thrilled when they decide to spend their vacation in his tree--he loves to party!...
379) La maleta
Author
Publisher
Leetra Final
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando un día llegó un extraño, cansado y sin nada más que una maleta, todos se hacían preguntas. Una historia conmovedora, llena de bondad y esperanza, sobre cómo tratamos a aquellos que necesitan ayuda." --
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