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The stress of her father's job loss causes Fain to feel invisible at home and in her new school, but she escapes with the monsters of her imagination until a family crisis and a human friend cause her to reconsider

A circle has difficulty finding its missing piece but has a good time looking for it

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

"Little Brown is grumpy and lonely at the dog park, until he decides to take matters into his own hands."--

A missing piece, looking for someone to carry it along, finally develops its own momentum

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

After finding a hamster that has been left behind in his taxi, a lonely immigrant cab driver celebrates Hanukkah with the little creature, while waiting to learn if the owner will return

Old Dave ignores strange noises he hears in the lonely old cottage he inherited from his uncle, except the voice telling him there are ghastly ghosts in the coal shed

Karen is afraid her next-door neighbor's granddaughter, Druscilla, is a witch but her father says Druscilla is lonely and he wants her to go trick-or-treating with Druscilla and to her Halloween party. But Karen is afraid

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...