| Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
| Not only is Turner Buckminster the son of the new minister in a small Maine town, he is shunned for playing baseball differently than the local boys. Then he befriends smart and lively Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from Malaga Island, a poor community founded by former slaves. Lizzie shows Turner a new world along the Maine coast from digging clams to rowing a boat next to a whale. When the powerful town elders, including Turner’s father, decide to drive the people off the island to set up a t...More
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| Moving House (Usborne First Experiences)
| A different family in each book discovers how to deal with new situations and what to expect
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| Anastasia Again
| Twelve-year-old Anastasia Krupnik is convinced that her family's move to the suburbs will be the beginning of the end. How can she possibly accept split-level houses with matching furniture, or mothers whose biggest worry is ring around collar? But her new home brings many surprises, notto mention a cute boy who lives down the street. Is it possible that surburbia has more to offer than Anastasia had expected?
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| The Leaving Morning
| Leaving a place can be long when, days before, you've already said good-bye to everyone you know--your friends, the grocer, your cousins, "especially your cousins." Then finally the day comes, and leaving is hard. Words and pictures catch exactly the mixture of excitement and wistfulness that "good-bye" can mean for young children. Full-color illustrations.
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| Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself
| When Sally’s family moves to Miami Beach for the winter of 1947, she is excited and nervous at the same time. What will school be like in Florida? Will she make any friends? Will she fit in so far away from home?Miami Beach has so many things to worry and wonder about, Sally is in for one unforgettable winter!
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| Yolonda's Genius
| A Simon & Schuster eBook
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| Lee Henry's Best Friend (Concept Book)
| Lee Henry's best friend moves away leaving Lee Henry with a bad case of the blues and the conviction that he'll never make another friend.
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| Dream Seekers: Roger William's Stand for Freedom (The American Adventure Series #3)
| When twelve-year-old Phillip and his sister move with their parents from Plymouth to Boston in 1634, they encounter mysterious Indians and survive narrow escapes.
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| Oswald
| Moving to Big City is certainly an adventure for Oswald the Octopus. When he and his pet hot dog, Weenie, arrive at their new apartment, they realize they need some help moving Oswald's treasured piano. It's very heavy. But Oswald doesn't know anyone in Big City. Who will help him? One by one, Oswald's friendly neighbors offer to help. Soon Oswald and Weenie meet Henry the Penguin, Johnny Snowman, the Egg Twins, and many other charming characters. And before they know it they've made lots of n...More
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| The Graves Family
| FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Seth and Sara Miller try to find ways to help their new and very different neighbors feel at home in their new town.
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| Dork in Disguise
| Last year, Jerry Flack was a dork. So this year, at a new school in a new town, he's decided to start a new life altogether--as a Cool Kid. He's been preparing all summer: studying teen magazines, acquiring hair gel, and distressing his jeans. Things get off to a good start, and before you know it, Jerry's in, Rollerblading with the pros. But soon, Jerry finds himself tangled up in a complicated web of lies; and what's more, he's battling a terrible urge to put his glasses back on, join the scie...More
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| Looking for Bobowicz : A Hoboken Chicken Story
| When Nick moved from the leafy suburbs to muggy, urban Hoboken and his bike was stolen, he wasn't pleased. Then he found a place where he could listen to pirate radio friends with a stack of Classics Comics newspaper reports about a kid named Arthur Bobowicz and a 266-pound chicken named Henrietta the secret entrance to Sibyl's Cave and much, much more, all of it practically true. Get an ice-cold Dr. Pedwee's grape soda and prepare to enjoy this Pinkwater Special, complete with saucy dialogue,...More
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| Good-bye/Hello
| In simple and engaging rhyme the author gives us the pluses and minuses of a young girl's move from an apartment in the city to a house in the suburbs. There is a lot she will miss, but the move brings good things too. This gentle book will help children of families in transition. Full color.
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| Howie Bowles, secret agent
| How do you make new friends?It's hard for Howie Bowles when his family moves to a new town -- what if the kids at school don't like him? "Just be yourself" is his mother's advice, but wouldn't it be easier to be somebody else? Howie doesn't plan on making his classmates believe that he's actually a secret agent named Agent Bean Burger, but somehow that's what happens. Soon everyone is interested in him because he's a secret agent, and it's sort of like having friends, except that the othe...More
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| Family Moving Day (Beechwood Bunny Tales)
| Papa Bramble moves his large bunny family to a spacious new home, but little Periwinkle has trouble making the change.
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| The Rainbow Fields
| Lonely in her new neighborhood and longing for her absent collie, Lucy paints an old woman in a hollow tree and is transported to the fantastic world of Mrs. Murgatroyd, where she learns that solitude can be a happy place.
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| Best friends together again
| In this happy sequel to Aliki's popular We Are Best Friends, Peter, who had moved away, is coming back to visit Robert. Both boys are worried. Will they still like each other? Young readers will find comfort in the fact that they do. Aliki's words offer proof that out of sight need not mean out of mind. Full-color.
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| All the Days Were Summer (Tempo Books)
| In the summer of 1943, as a 12-year-old boy tries to cope with his dog's blindness and his father's new job with German prisoners of war, he finds his life unalterably changing.
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| Murphy's Island
| Collette Murphy has to go with her large, often trying family to a small island and start sixth grade there as the new girl in school.
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| Moving Molly
| Molly is lonely after her family's move from the city to the country, but she adjusts with the help of her new next-door neighbors.
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