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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"1965: Growing up in the well-to-do town of Round Hill, North Carolina, Ellie Hockley was raised to be a certain type of proper Southern lady. Enrolled in college and all but engaged to a bank manager, Ellie isn't as committed to her expected future as her family believes. She's chosen to spend her summer break as a volunteer helping to register black voters. But as Ellie follows her ideals fighting for the civil rights of the marginalized, her scandalized...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
No-nonsense Captain Swashby is used to the sea meeting all of his needs and when, after his retirement, new neighbors disturb his solitary life, the sea helps in just the right way.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting like weeds, FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighbors she's known all her life are disappearing. To hold onto her community's past and present, Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one of the new arrivals to the block -- her neighbor Theo....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
While enjoying autumn weather and activities, Mr. Putter, realizing how much he misses going to school, takes his cat Tabby, their adventurous neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry, and her cake-loving dog Zeke to "Show and Tell."
Author
Series
Little Beach Street Bakery volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Moving to a Cornish seaside village, hoping for peace and solitude, lonely registrar Marisa Rosso, feeling like life is passing her by, unexpectedly finds her joy again with the help of her noisy neighbor, the community spirit and a campaign to save the local bakery.
46) At first spite
Author
Series
Harlot's Bay novel volume 1
Publisher
Piatkus
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When Athena Greydon's fiance ends their engagement a month before the wedding, she has no choice but to pack up her few possessions and move into the Spite House she recklessly bought him as a wedding gift. Which is a real problem, for several key reasons: The house is only ten feet wide. Her ex's home is literally attached to hers. And Dr. Matthew Vine the Freaking Third - AKA the uptight, judgy jerk who convinced his younger brother to leave her...
47) Zen Ties
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Stillwater the panda encourages Koo, Addy, Michael, and Karl to help a grouchy neighbor, their efforts are rewarded in unexpected ways.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates the surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Lewis Madigan is young, gay, out of work, and getting antsy when he's roped into providing end-of-life care for his insufferable homophobic neighbor, Chester Wheeler. Lewis doesn't need the aggravation, just the money. The only requirements: run errands, be on call, and put up with a miserable old churl no one else in Buffalo can bear. After exchanging barbs, bickering, baiting, and pushing buttons, Chester hits Lewis with the big ask. Lewis can't...
Author
Language
English
Description
Britt-Marie can't stand mess. A disorganized cutlery drawer ranks high on her list of unforgivable sins. She begins her day at 6 a.m., because only lunatics wake up later than that. And she is not passive-aggressive. Not in the least. It's just that sometimes people interpret her helpful suggestions as criticisms, which is certainly not her intention. She is not one to judge others--no matter how ill-mannered, unkempt, or morally suspect they might...
Author
Series
Ivy and Bean volume 5
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
121 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Ivy and Bean learn that being very good, or very bad, can be a real challenge when they set out to become like a man Ivy heard about who was so pure of heart that birds and animals followed him.
53) Trouble
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A squirrel sees nothing but trouble in a bear newcomer who has terrible teeth, knife-like claws, and an oversized appetite, while her pet mouse perceives a new neighbor who is just trying to be friendly.
54) Split! Splat!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a little girl ventures out into a spring rain with her dog, singing a simple, plain, pitter-patter rain song, her neighbors soon join her for some muddy-day fun.
55) City beet
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Victoria and her neighbor, Mrs. Kosta, grow such a spectacular beet garden that they need the entire neighborhood's help to pull out a giant beet.
56) Coming apart
Author
Series
Main Street volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
200 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nikki relies on support from her friends Flora, Ruby, and Olivia when her father comes back after leaving the family and she does not know what to expect.
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbors. One is black, the other white. Both are successful women with impressive careers. Both have recently been widowed, and are living with questions, disappointments, and secrets that have brought them shame. And each has something that the woman next door deeply desires. Sworn enemies, the two share a hedge and a deliberate hostility, which they maintain with a zeal that belies their age. But, one day,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Once, I would never have imagined myself here. But I'm settled now. In a place I love, in a home I renovated, spending time with new friends I adore, and working a job that fulfills me. I am reconciling the past and laying the groundwork for the future. Then Garrett Frost moves in next door. He's obstinate and too bold, a raging force of nature that disrupts the careful order of my life. I recognize the ghosts that haunt him, the torment driving...