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Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (363 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
George Turner, a recent widower, quits his job as a popular 800-word columnist for a Sydney newspaper. On an impulse, he buys a house online in a remote seaside town in New Zealand. He then has to break the news to his two teenage kids, Shay and Arlo, who just lost their mom and now face an even more uncertain future. When the family arrives in their new home, the colorful and inquisitive locals ensure Turner's dream of a fresh start does not go according...
84) The shadow house
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
309 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.
Description
Alex, a single mother-of-two, is determined to make a fresh start for her and her children. In an effort to escape her troubled past, she seeks refuge in a rural community. Pine Ridge is idyllic; the surrounding forests are beautiful and the locals welcoming. Mostly. But Alex finds that she may have disturbed barely hidden secrets in her new home. As a chain of bizarre events is set off, events eerily familiar to those who have lived there for years,...
85) Soar
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Moving to Hillcrest, Ohio, when his adoptive father accepts a temporary job, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, a heart transplant recipient, has sixty days to find a baseball team to coach.
86) Colossal
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (1 hr., 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Gloria is an out-of-work party girl who, after getting kicked out of her apartment by her boyfriend, is forced to leave her life in New York and move back to her hometown. When news reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, South Korea, Gloria gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this far-off phenomenon. Gloria must determine why her seemingly insignificant existence has such a colossal effect on the...
87) Lost and found
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Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old identical twins Jay and Ray have long resented that everyone treats them as one person, and so they hatch a plot to take advantage of a clerical error at their new school and pretend they are just one.
Author
Series
Pony whisperer volume 1
Formats
Description
Pia Edwards is having difficulty adjusting to a new town, a new school, and a new stable for her pony, Drummer, and after she discovers a mystical statuette that allows her to talk to horses, things get really complicated.
Author
Series
Mysteries on Zoo Lane volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 22 cm
Description
After moving to Rome with her father, thirteen-year-old Beatrice witnesses a shadowy figure steal the turtle sculptures from a fountain located outside her window and is determined to solve the crime herself when no one believes her story.
92) Elsie's bird
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Description
Young Elsie must find a way to adapt to her new home on the Nebraska prairie after she and her father leave their comfortable city life in Boston.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"It's moving day for the Shrew family, so Mrs. Shrew has asked them to all hold on to each other's tails tightly so that nobody gets lost! They set off in a long line, but wait, where's little Leonard? This picture book will have you on the edge of your seat as you follow Leonard, who manages to grab on to anything and everything that isn't a shrew tail! Narrowly avoiding catastrophe at every turn, from angry baboons to snapping crocodiles, will Leonard...
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Mona Hasan is a young Muslim girl growing up in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, when the first Gulf War breaks out in 1991. The war isn't what she expects--especially when the ground offensive is over so quickly...Over the course of one year, Mona falls inlove, speaks up to protect her younger sister, loses her best friend to the new girl at school, has summer adventures with her cousins in Pakistan, immigrates to Canada, and pursues her ambition to...
Author
Series
Piper Reed volume 1
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
146 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Description
Piper is sad about leaving her home and friends behind when her father, a Navy aircraft mechanic, is transferred yet again, but with help from her often-annoying sisters and a surprise from their parents, she finds happiness in their new home in Pensacola, Florida.
96) Poppy
Author
Series
American dog volume 2
Formats
Description
With the help of a very special pit bull puppy, twelve-year-old Hannah adjusts to moving from Michigan to California and makes friends, despite the birthmark that makes her self-conscious.
97) The goat
Author
Formats
Description
Kid and her family move to an apartment building in New York City, whose eccentric residents include a skateboarding fantasy writer, a guinea pig hoarder, and possibly a goat who lives on the roof.
99) The fixer
Author
Series
The fixer (Jennifer Lynn Barnes) volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
When her grandfather develops dementia, sixteen-year-old Tess, who has been keeping his Montana ranch going, is whisked away to Washington, D.C., by a sister she barely knows and thrown into a world of politics, power, wealth, love triangles, and family secrets.
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