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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A tale based on the story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the only Americans put to death for espionage during the Cold War, traces the experiences of their friend and neighbor, who takes in the couple's young sons when they are arrested by the FBI in 1950.
84) Breath of spring
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Annie Mae takes her five siblings to a new community for a fresh start and begins caring for them alone, but fears that no man will want to take on her responsibilities, even her neighbor Adam Wagler, who has helped her through her trials.
85) Sugar Pine Trail
Author
Series
Haven Point volume 7
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After she agrees to care for her two younger brothers during Christmas, librarian Julia Winston accepts the help of her neighbor, military pilot Jamie Caine, a man she thinks is not her type, until she discovers a side of Jamie she never expected.
Author
Series
Katie the catsitter volume 1
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Twelve-year-old Katie is dreading the boring summer ahead until she realizes the mysterious neighbor who hired her to catsit is one of the city's greatest supervillains.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Khalil and his family have the upstairs apartment in the house where elderly Mr. Hagerty lives downstairs, and on hot summer days they get to know each other and trade new words, as Khalil plays outside while Mr. Hagerty gardens.
90) A million things
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Used to her mother’s frequent absences and subsequent returns, 10-year-old Rae looks after herself and her dog and begins a relationship with her grumpy, elderly neighbor who needs her help after she suffers a fall.
91) Amish protector
Author
Series
River Haven volume 2
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When she finds an injured woman on her property, who bears a striking resemblance to her, Amish quilt shop owner Joanna Kohler turns to her neighbor Noah Troyer for help when this stranger brings danger into their tight-knit Amish community.
92) Love me do
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
While visiting her sister in Hollywood, Phoebe Chapman plays matchmaker for her sister’s personal trainer and the sweet carpenter next door, and caught up with writing love letters and an unexpected friendship with a reclusive 82-year-old film star, finds herself falling for the real LA—and someone unexpected.
Author
Series
Life in Icicle Falls volume 11
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
At her annual Christmas party, author Muriel Sterling inspires her friends Sienna Marks, who has had it with her grouchy next door neighbor, and Olivia Claussen, who would love to send her obnoxious new daughter-in-law packing, to see the good in everyone and the beauty in even the roughest characters.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lulu, one of the Lotus Lane Girls, loves all things sparkly and glamorous, so when she hears about a Penelope Glitter look-alike contest she is determined to enter and win--and she is not going to let the still-unresolved problems with neighbor Mika get in the way.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The day before Christmas, everyone in Jose's neighborhood seems grumpy, including his mother who is homesick for Puerto Rico, but when he and his parents return from the pizzeria where they borrowed an oven to cook their roast, the heavenly aroma reminds those they pass of all they have to celebrate.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Coco, one of the Lotus Lane Girls, loves cooking and animals, so when the club decides to plant a vegetable garden to help save snails, organizing a cupcake sale is an obvious idea--but Mika, the new girl next door, is still an unresolved problem. Includes cupcake recipe.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 1970s Brooklyn, with the promise of violence everywhere, a currency itself, this story of community, crime and gentrification chronicles more than 50 years of life in one neighborhood where the players write the headlines, the histories and the laws of the streets.
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 8
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ivy and Bean try to make money by writing a newspaper about Pancake Court but the neighbors are not pleased to read about themselves.
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