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Language
English
Description
"It's 1988. The CD has arrived. Sales of the shiny new disks are soaring on high streets in cities across the country. Meanwhile, down a dead-end street, Frank's music shop stands small and brightly lit, jam-packed with records of every kind. It attracts the lonely, the sleepless, the adrift. There is room for everyone. Frank has a gift for finding his customers the music they need. Into this shop arrives Ilse Brauchmann - practical, brave, well-heeled....
3) Hug me
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
©2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
More than anything in the world, Elliot the porcupine wants a friend who will hug him.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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.
7) Zoo girl
Author
Publisher
Lion Children's
Pub. Date
2012, ©2011
Language
English
Description
Zoo girl has no family, and in the children's home, she feels lost and alone. On a trip to the zoo, she is accidentally left behind, but the animals love her. When she's discovered by the zoo keepers snuggled in a cage with the tigers then brought back to the orphanage, she doesn't want to go.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Little Red Riding Hood is worried about her Granny. Granny's recovered from her scare with the Big Bad Wolf, but she's lonely. Thankfully Little Red Riding Hood is on the case! She is ready to find her Granny some new hobbies and some new friends.
9) Purplicious
Author
Series
Pinkalicious volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her classmates make fun of her for still liking the color pink, a little girl feels all alone, but then a friend shows her the power of pink.
Author
Language
English
Description
"An evocative new novel from the New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins. Beware the wrath of a woman scorned-she just might save the world. Lillie knew the empty nest would be hard when her son left for college, but she had no idea of the full extent to which her world would come crashing down-until her husband announced out of the blue that he was in love with another woman, and he would be leaving, too. Besides the fact that this announcement...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never thinks of herself as lonely...but still she looks forward to that time every day when old curmudgeon Arthur McLachlan comes to browse the shelves and cheerfully insult her. Their sparring is such a highlight of Sloane's day that when Arthur doesn't show up one morning, she's instantly concerned. And then another day passes, and another. Anxious, Sloane...
12) Pretty kitty
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this charming counting book, a lonely old man discovers one kitty on his front step. But he does not want a kitty cat - scat! As the number of kitties grows, will the man find room in his heart--and home--for his new feline friends? A counting picture book in rhyme about a lonely old man whose heart is slowly melted by an ever-growing number of kitties hoping to find a home.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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.
Author
Series
Alphabet friends volume 15
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A simple story about a lonely boy named Oscar introduces the letter "o"
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"What does it mean to be a body behind a screen, lost in the hustle of an online world? In our age of digital hyper-connection, Athena Dixon invites us to consider this question with depth, heart, and ferocity, investigating the gaps that technology cannot fill and confronting a lifetime of loneliness. Living alone as a middle-aged woman without children or pets and working forty hours a week from home, more than three hundred fifty miles from her...
18) Alone
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town. 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...
19) La la la
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Follows a singing girl's fruitless search for a friend in her world, until one night when her song is finally heard by someone who understands. This almost wordless picture book is a gentle reminder of how powerful we can be when we dare to reach out to one another.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Born invisible, seventeen-year-old Pie wants more from life than lurking unseen in other people's houses, but when she finally reveals herself, her mother disappears, and Pie begins to question everything she thought she knew.
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