Polacco, Patricia
Summary: Soon after her beloved grandmother's death, Trisha's family moves to a diverse California neighborhood where she meets Stewart and his grandmother, Miss Eula, who brings people together to help a grieving neighbor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POLCohen, Tziporah
Summary: Buying and moving into the run-down Jewel Motor Inn in upstate New York wasn't eleven-year-old Miriam Brockman's dream, but at least it's an adventure. Miriam befriends Kate, whose grandmother owns the diner next door, and finds comfort in the company of Maria, the motel's housekeeper, and her Uncle Mordy, who comes to help out for the summer. She spends her free time helping Kate's grandmother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD COHTesta, Maggie
Summary: Daniel Tiger plays hide-and-seek with his new neighbor and makes a friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2018
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE TESNakamura, May
Summary: "Robbie and Mo Malto's blues about moving to a new town get lifted when they discover they now share a home with Terrans Twitch and Thrash, the first Transformers robots ever born on Earth! Together, Twitch and Thrash introduce their new human friends to their world and show off their unique skills!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE NAKKrishnaswami, Uma
Summary: Eleven-year-old Dini loves movies, and so when she learns that her family is moving to India for two years, her devastation over leaving her best friend in Maryland is tempered by the possibility of meeting her favorite actress, Dolly Singh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KRIGiff, Patricia Reilly
Summary: Luke is unhappy about leaving his home and abuelo when his father takes a job at a New York zoo, but soon he has new friends and a mystery to solve. Includes facts about zoo animals and wildlife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GIFMiedoso, Andres
Summary: When supernatural things start happening in the house timid Andres and his parents just moved into, next-door-neighbor Desmond Cole, eight, comes to the rescue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2022
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Summary: A little girl hesitates to initiate a friendship with her new neighbor Zola because she imagines Zola is busy with another friend--an elephant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE DESLiu, Dane
Summary: Just before Chinese New Year, Dandan discovers that her family is moving to America, far away from her best friend Yueyue; before they leave Yueyue gives her a stack of red paper and a spool of string so she can share the art of paper cutting with Americans--and when Chinese New Year comes around again Dandan remembers Yueyue's gift and introduces her new friend Christina to this ancient art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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Summary: Betty the Yeti moves to a new apartment and friendly neighbors bring the Yetis spaghetti for dinner, but for Betty it is nothing like she expected.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Leaving her best friend is difficult for a young hedgehog whose family is moving, but everyone assures her that things will be alright.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BAGKingsbury, Karen
Summary: "When Dr. Baxter tells the family that they will be moving from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Bloomington, Indiana, the five Baxter children, ages six to thirteen, are sure that their lives and home will never be the same. But they find that being together with the ones you love is the most important part of home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KINPeterson, Ellie
Summary: Best friends Cora and Shelly, who build sandcastles every day on the shore, confront the challenge of Shelly moving to the city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PETKalishuk, Olena
Summary: Bilingual children's story in Ukrainian and English, ideal for bilingual families and kids who learn Ukrainian or English as a second language. Leo the Mouse and his family lose their home and they need to move and adjust to a new place. Leo finds a new friend who looks differently, nevertheless, they form a strong friendship. Amazing plasticine artwork will encourage your child to take...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Yuliia Pozniak] 2021
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Summary: Peanut Butter sets out with his soccer ball to find a friend after moving to a new town, but everyone from Hamburger to Soup seems to be too busy to play.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: When her stepfather leaves and her family loses their home to fire, twelve-year-old Chinese-American Monica, or Mo, struggles with anxiety, but the chance to hunt an elephant ghost -- and the promise of a new friend -- help convince her to live a little more dangerously.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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Summary: When his mother, a professional singer, dies, twelve-year-old Harrison moves to the southern Utah desert, where he continues learning card tricks, makes new friends, enters an art contest, and finds a way to pay tribute to his mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RIMBowling, Dusti
Summary: New friends and a mystery help Aven, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BOWVrettos, Adrienne Maria
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC VREBeck, Miya T.
Summary: Yuki Snow wishes she were anywhere but here. She hates Santa Dolores, where her mom and stepdad just moved the family. Her BFF back home, Julio, has already forgotten his promise to stay in touch, and worse, he like likes Yuki's mortal enemy. At her new school, the kids think she's either invisible or a know-it-all nerd. The only friend she's made so far is the shopkeeper at a Japanese antiques...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BECO'Ryan, Ray.
Summary: Moving from Earth to the futuristic planet Nebulon in 2120, eight-year-old Zack is nervous about starting school and meeting people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ORYWiles, Deborah
Summary: Aurora County, Mississippi, is only the latest stop on the Cakes' nomadic lifestyle, opening bakeries wherever they go; but Emma Alabama Lane Cake (only girl of the six Cake children) is sick of it, and determined not to form any friendships here because they will just disappear as soon as the family moves again--but Aurora County has other ideas, and so does a girl named Ruby Lavender who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WILLore, Pittacus.
Summary: In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LORUrsu, Anne
Summary: "The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn't fit among them. For Violet Hart-whose family is about to move into the house on Katydid Street-very little felt like it fit anymore. Like their old home, suddenly too small since her mother remarried and the new baby arrived. Or Violet's group of friends, which, since they started middle school,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024