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Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Moopy the underground monster lives alone and likes it that way--but when another monster knocks at her door she discovers that friendship is important.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Text and illustrations describe some of the special places that one can go to be quiet and alone and to imagine, such as a woods, a seashore, a library, or inside oneself.
4) Gus
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Gus, a gosling who likes to be by himself. But when his adventures lead him to a turtle's nest, he's in for some unexpected companionship!"
5) A quiet girl
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Mary is so quiet that her family hardly pays any attention to her, until one day, after shouting her name, they try quiet waiting instead and discover Mary and the importance of solitude.
6) Boot & Shoe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Marla Frazee has racked up accolades for her charming and heartwarming books, including two Caldecott Honors and a Boston Globe-Horn Bookonor. Boot and Shoe are a pair of puppies who do almost everything together. But when a rascal squirrel gets all up in their business, everything goes topsy-turvy.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Grandmother wants so badly to be left alone to finish the knitting for her grandchildren that she leaves her tiny home and her big family to journey to the moon and beyond to find peace and quiet to finish her knitting.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Three centuries after Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe, this gripping tale of a castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being ultimately rescued, remains a classic of the adventure genre and is widely considered the first great English novel. But the book also has much to teach us, in retrospect, about entrenched attitudes of colonizers toward the colonized...
10) Distant shores
Author
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Hannah examines whether love and commitment are enough to sustain a marriage when two people who have put their individual dreams on ice get a chance to defrost them . . . in fast-moving prose punctuated by snappy asides.”—People
Elizabeth and Jackson Shore married young, raised two daughters, and weathered the storms of youth as they built a family. From a distance,...
Elizabeth and Jackson Shore married young, raised two daughters, and weathered the storms of youth as they built a family. From a distance,...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 223
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
The internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel offers a rich and brilliant chronicle celebrating the endless variety of life in the mythical Latin America town of Macondo.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A dazzling new collection of short stories--the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball...
Author
Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Ruby Raccoon wants to share a perfectly sunny day with her busy woodland friends, she discovers that perfect days can be spent all by yourself.
16) Foe: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A taut, psychological mind-bender from the bestselling author of I'm Thinking of Ending Things. We don't get visitors. Not out here. We never have. In Iain Reid's second haunting, philosophical puzzle of a novel, set in the near-future, Junior and Henrietta live a comfortable, solitary life on their farm, far from the city lights, but in close quarters with each other. One day, a stranger from the city arrives with alarming news: Junior has been...
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