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1) The suitcase
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a weary stranger arrives one day with nothing but a suitcase, his new neighbors ask nervous questions about who he is and where he comes from before they are challenged to decide between trusting the newcomer or taking the risk of not believing him"--
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children set out to build the best, most magical healing garden in Harlem--in spite of a locked fence, thistles and trash, and the conflicting plans of a wealthy real estate developer"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Henri "Halti" Haltiwanger can charm just about anyone. But his easy smiles mask a burning ambition to attend his dream college, Columbia University. There is only one person who seems immune to Henri's charms: his "intense" classmate and neighbor Corinne Troy. When she uncovers Henri's less-than-honest dog-walking scheme, she blackmails him into helping her change her image at school. Henri agrees, seeing a potential upside for himself. Soon what...
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"From Newbery Honor Winner Cynthia Lord, a brilliant story about how to find home when everything around us is changing. Mia and her mom visit Grandma in Maine every summer, but this year Mia is going alone. Her mom will stay behind to get their house ready to sell. It’ll be a new start, she says, after the divorce. Mia doesn’t want a new start. She’d rather everything just stayed the same! At least things will be the same at Grandma’s,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"In the dead of night, a truck arrives in Slaughterville, a town named after its windowless slaughterhouse. Seven mysterious kids with suitcases stealthily step out of the vehicle and into an abandoned home on a dead-end street. But lonely Ravani Foster witnesses their arrival and is eager to learn everything he can about his new neighbors: What are they hiding? And where are the adults?Yet amid this group of children, Ravani finds an unexpected friend...
9) Neville
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a boy and his family move to a new house, he devises an ingenious way to meet people in the neighborhood.
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 10
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an odd new boy moves in next door, Hannah's neighborhood starts to get more and more eerie, and she suspects that the pale boy must be a ghost.
Author
Publisher
Floris Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Emma can't wait for Christmas - the tree, the presents, the delicious dinner! Dad and Susan want Christmas to be perfect but things aren't going to plan - and then their turkey disappears! Will Christmas be ruined? As Emma encourages her parents to appreciate what they have, their neighbours come knocking to help the family have a very merry Christmas.
Author
Series
Princess Posey books volume 12
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Posey is excited that Gramps and her neighbor, Mrs. Romero, are getting married, but unhappy that Mrs. Romero and her dog will move away.
16) Just Grace
Author
Series
Just Grace volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
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.
17) The neighbors
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
As she climbs the seven stories to her own apartment, a little girl imagines what happens behind every door she passes.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Swanda first moves to the city, she misses the wildlife she left behind. But she quickly discovers that Brooklyn has a wildlife of its own: pigeons! Lots and lots of hungry pigeons. And Swanda is more than happy to feed them all.
19) Dear Mr. G
Author
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A child forms a friendship with an elderly neighbor In a series of letters"--
20) Extra normal
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Charlie Greer is nothing special -- at least not compared to her adopted siblings. Her younger sister is a ghost. Her brother Mateo is a werewolf. Gideon is the product of seriously sketchy experiments that gave him telekinetic powers. Even her parents work for the Division of Extranormal Investigations tracking down all things supernatural, alien, and otherwise unusual. Charlie's mom says her superpower is maturity -- which doesn't really count....
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