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3) Hardscrabble
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Twelve-year-old Belle Martin and her family move to Mingo, Colorado, in 1910 when the U.S. government offers 320 acres of land free to homesteaders.
5) Zen ties
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Series
Pub. Date
c2008
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When Stillwater the panda encourages Koo, Addy, Michael, and Karl to help a grouchy neighbor, their efforts are rewarded in unexpected ways.
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Pub. Date
2005.
Description
Named after a character in a Shakespeare play, misfit sixth-grader Hero becomes interested in exploring this unusual connection because of a valuable diamond supposedly hidden in her new house, an intriguing neighbor, and the unexpected attention of the most popular boy in school.
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Series
Fiabe in famiglia volume 1
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Mateo and Valerio are neighbors, but while Mateo tries to feed and protect the local birds in his yard, Valerio tries to trap them in his, so a wall is built to separate the two yards, and they must decide whether it should stay.
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Budding costume designer Lola lives an extraordinary life in San Francisco with her two dads and beloved dog, dating a punk rocker, but when the Bell twins return to the house next door Lola, recalls both the friendship-ending fight with Calliope, a figure skater, and the childhood crush she had on Cricket.
12) Just Grace
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Just Grace volume 1
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Misnamed by her teacher, seven-year-old Just Grace prides herself on being empathetic, but when she tries to help a neighbor feel better, her good intentions backfire.
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Mercy Watson volume 1
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor.
14) Ivy and Bean
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Series
Pub. Date
2007.
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When seven-year-old Bean plays a mean trick on her sister, she finds unexpected support for her antics from Ivy, the new neighbor, who is less boring than Bean first suspected.
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Series
Vanderbeekers volume 1
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Told that they will have to move out of their Harlem brownstone just after Christmas, the five Vanderbeeker children, ages four to twelve, decide to change their reclusive landlord's mind.
16) Old henry
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Pub. Date
[1987]
Description
Henry's neighbors are scandalized that he ignores them and lets his property get run down, until they drive him away and find themselves missing him.
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Series
Ivy + Bean volume 5
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.
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Pub. Date
2008.
Description
Third-grader Kaline Klattermaster's father has gone somewhere and his mother cannot seem to keep everything straight the way he did, but the two brothers and one hundred dogs that live in his imaginary treehouse--and his strange neighbor Mr. Osiris Putnaminski--help him cope with his father's absence, his mother's forgetfulness, and the bullies that torment him in school.
19) Rain!
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As an old man grumbles his way through a rainy morning, spreading gloom, his neighbor, a young child, spreads cheer while hopping through puddles in frog-themed rainwear.
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Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans) volume 3
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Description
When the Spanish ambassador moves in next door, Madeline and the rest of the twelve little girls discover that his son is not the best neighbor.