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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
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Dismayed when his neighbors cut down a beloved old walnut tree that has always been a source of comfort, Alder forges an unexpected friendship with the new girl next door over a series of mysterious connections.
104) Let's go, bike!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Penny loves her bike! It takes her to lots of fun places!"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
On Isaac's street most of the houses are decorated in red and green for Christmas, while Isaac's house is blue and white for Hanukkah. When someone smashes Isaac's window in the night, his friend Teresa comes up with a way to show support--and gets the whole community to rally around their Jewish family.
106) On a quiet street
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Cora thinks her husband, Finn, is cheating--she just needs to catch him in the act. That's where Paige comes in. Paige lost her son to a hit-and-run last year, and she's drowning in the kind of grief that makes people do reckless things like ... agreeing to Cora's plan to reveal what kind of man Finn really is. All the while, their reclusive new neighbor, Georgia, is acting more strangely every day. But what could such a lovely young mother possibly...
Author
Publisher
HQ, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Salma Khatun is hopeful about the safe suburban development to which she, her husband and their son have just moved. Not long after they move in, Salma spots Tom, her neighbor, ripping out the anti-racist banner her son put in their front yard. She chooses not to confront Tom and takes the banner inside and puts it in her window instead. But the next morning she wakes up to find her window smeared with paint. This time she does confront Tom, and the...
108) A face in the crowd
Author
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In "A Face in the Crowd," widower Dean Evers sees faces from his past while watching baseball; and in "The Longest December," the Howard family struggles to see their kind and gentle neighbor James Wilkinson as the violent criminal the police are investigating.
109) In the neighborhood
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Camila the chicken, Mr. Martínez the fox, Felipe the mouse, Rodolfo the cat, Matilde the pig, Mrs. Paquita the owl, Pepe the ogre, and Matilde the inventor, all live in the same on the same street, but nobody talks to anybody else, until one day Mrs. Paquita's internet connection goes out, and Matilde (surprised to find out someone actually lives next door) fixes the problem--and so starts a chain reaction that finally turns this collection of individuals...
Author
Series
Harbor Hills volume 3
Publisher
Publishing In The Pines
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Annette Best has lost her business and her house. Now, she's on the brink of losing her marriage. But the forty-something realtor has one thing going for her: friends. The women of Apple Hill Lane show up on moving day, ready to help Annette kiss her old life goodbye... until an eerie discovery turns up in her very own backyard. Suddenly, Annette finds herself at the center of a small-town scandal and in danger of risking the biggest sale of her career....
Author
Series
Harbor Hills volume 4
Publisher
Publishing In The Pines
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Every single one of the women on Apple Hill Lane has been withholding an icy secret. Though battling the winter blues during her divorce, Jude Banks has held it all together... until now. Will she find her Christmas spirit amidst the hardships in life? Quinn Whittle never told her daughter the truth. But that didn't stop Vivi from digging around ... or looking for anther place to spend December 25. Beverly Castle is about to face the holidays for...
112) Simply the best
Author
Series
Chicago Stars volume 10
Language
English
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Description
When Brett, the hottest sports agent in the business, and Rory, the sister of his superstar client, meet and have a disastrous one-night stand, resulting in murder, they find things getting messy, dangerous, heartbreaking and sexy as they struggle with themselves, each other and love.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment...
114) Kiss me now
Author
Series
Creekville Kisses volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Ian would do anything for his grandmother, so when Gran suddenly announces she's leaving the family property to her pretty new neighbor, Ian is on the case. He'll use every one of his sharply honed skills as a private investigator to expose the gold digger and save Gran. Brooke is living her best life far from the city and career that tried to destroy her. She's happy spending her summer renovating the house she inherited and gardening with her elderly...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Cottonwood Book Club serves as their subdivision's eyes and ears, meeting once a month for discussion, gossip, and cocktails. If their selections trend toward twisty thrillers and salacious murder mysteries, it's only because the members feel secure that such evil has no place in their own cul-de-sacs. Or does it? What happened to Lena's family fifteen years ago was a tragic accident, and she will never admit otherwise. Devoted wife and mother...
116) Underdog city
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It seems like everything in Mortimer's life is changing for the worse. After his much-loved dog dies, he can't bring himself to carry on with his dog-walking business; there's a strange new girl who's moved into the house next door; and suddenly there's a buzzing feeling of anxiety in his head when he's faced with something new. Townsend Heights, used to feel like the most comfortable place in the world. But lately, it seems like there's uncertainty...
Author
Series
Zara's rules volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When neighborhood queen bee Zara is threatened by new girl Naomi, Zara decides to break a Guinness World Record to get everyone to notice her again, until she realizes that maybe sharing her crown wouldn’t be so bad.
118) Trouble
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A squirrel sees nothing but trouble in a bear newcomer who has big teeth, knife-like claws, and an oversized appetite, while her pet mouse perceives a new neighbor who is just trying to be friendly.
119) Big tree down
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After a summer thunderstorm knocks down Big Tree, a young boy watches his neighborhood come together to clean up and plant Little Tree.
120) Every last secret
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
When her new friend and neighbor Neena Ryder, a woman anxious to move up in the world, becomes obsessed with her husband, Cat Winthorpe is plunged into a world of temptation, secrets and toxic jealousy that makes her question her desire for a perfect life.
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