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Books for Summer, in English and Spanish/Libros para el verano, en inglés y español
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
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Bored with city life and the proper behavior it requires, Mr. Tiger has a wild idea that leads him to discover his true nature.
6) Ugly Fish
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At first Ugly Fish likes being alone in his tank so much that he eats any fish that tries to share it, but when he becomes lonely, he devises a better plan.
7) Someday
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When A learns he is not the only person waking up in a different person's body every day, he gains new understanding of the extremes where love and loneliness can lead. Told from multiple perspectives.
11) The ice garden
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When Jess, a girl who is allergic to the sun, sneaks out of her house, she discovers a magical garden made out of ice.
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Dragon is lonely so he goes looking for a friend and when an apple falls on his head he is convinced that he has found one; but at home Apple is quiet and unresponsive, and when a visit to the doctor only makes things worse, Dragon mourns the loss of his friend--until an apple tree grows where Apple is buried.
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"Bix lives with her family in a city where people rarely talk or play together, and no longer read books. Instead, they stare at small portable screens, monitored by giant eyeballs. The Eyes are here to help! With everything. But Bix would like to do things for herself. Running from an Eye, she discovers another world: the City Under the City. There, she befriends a rat who leads her to a library and its treasure trove of books and knowledge. As she...
14) Mr. Coats
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Mr. Coats is freezing cold. No matter how many heaters he turns on, how many blankets he sleeps under at night, or how many layers he wears, he can simply never get warm. Being this cold all the time is lonely. And loneliness is a chilly feeling. Mr. Coats thinks he'll be alone in the cold forever, but he's wrong. There's someone out there just like him.--
15) El lorito pelón
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Missing the trees, sun, and other parrots of his homeland, Puerto Rico, a lonely parrot in a luxurious Chicago apartment expresses his sadness by plucking his colorful feathers.
"Esta es la historia de un lorito que, de la noche a la mañana, se ve arrancado de su bella isla del Caribe y termina en un edificio de lujo, pero triste y gris, de la ciudad de Chicago. Aunque con feliz final, este cuento nos habla no sólo de lo difícil que es adaptarse...
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Eleven-year-old Maybelle Lane collects sounds. She records the Louisiana crickets chirping, Momma strumming her guitar, their broken trailer door squeaking. But the crown jewel of her collection is a sound she didn't collect herself: an old recording of her daddy's warm-sunshine laugh, saved on an old phone's voicemail. It's the only thing she has of his, and the only thing she knows about him. Until the day she hears that laugh--his laugh--pouring...
17) La la la
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Follows a singing girl's fruitless search for a friend in her world, until one night when her song is finally heard by someone who understands.
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"When Rosie and the rest of the Love Puppies find out that Meiko is struggling to make friends at her new school, they are sure they can sniff out a solution! But it takes more than magic to break the ice. If they can be creative, these caring canines might just find a lonely girl her paw-fect match!"--Back cover.
20) Just like that
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With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students...