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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Britt-Marie is a socially awkward, fussy busybody who is used to being organized. When she walks out on her cheating husband and gets a job as caretaker of the dilapidated recreation center in Borg, she is woefully unprepared for the changes. But as she takes on the task of leading the supremely untalented children's soccer team to victory, she just might find a place she belongs.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong.
Author
Language
English
Description
Hollow's Edge used to be a quiet place. A private and idyllic neighborhood where neighbors dropped in on neighbors, celebrated graduation and holiday parties together, and looked out for one another. But then came the murder of Brandon and Fiona Truett. A year and a half later, Hollow's Edge is simmering. The residents are trapped, unable to sell their homes, confronted daily by the empty Truett house, and suffocated by their trial testimonies that...
Author
Language
English
Description
Some days Nora Nolan thinks that she and her husband, Charlie, lead a charmed life--except when there's a crisis at work, a leak in the roof at home, or a problem with their twins at college. And why not? New York City was once Nora's dream destination, and her clannish dead-end block has become a safe harbor, a tranquil village amid the urban craziness. Then one morning she returns from her run to discover that a terrible incident has shaken the...
5) The whispers
Author
Language
English
Description
The Loverlys sit by the hospital bed of their young son who is in a coma after falling from his bedroom window in the middle of the night; his mother, Whitney, will not speak to anyone. Back home, their friends and neighbors are left in shock, each confronting their own role in the events that led up to what happened that terrible night: the warm, altruistic Parks who are the Loverlys' best friends; the young, ambitious Goldsmiths who are struggling...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This summer, meet your neighbors. The residents of the exclusive cul-de-sac on Alton Road are entangled in a web of secrets and scandal utterly unknown to the outside world, and even to each other. On the night of the annual Summer block party, there hasbeen a murder. But, who did it and why takes readers back one year earlier, as rivalries and betrayals unfold--discovering that the real danger lies within their own block and nothing--and no one--is...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Stanhope. A safe neighborhood. A place for families. On the surface, William Wooler is a family man. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper. Hours later, Avery's family declares her missing. Suddenly Stanhope doesn't...
10) Quakertown
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A novel set against the backdrop of 1920s Texas captures the lives of members of a flourishing African-American community segregated from its white neighbors as two families--one white and one black--become caught up in a shameful, real-life episode from north Texas' history.
11) Day by day
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"As the seasons change, the industrious pigs of Day by Day build a home, plant a garden, help their neighbors, and then gather in a harvest grown with hard work and kindness"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Gustav Gloom volume 2
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As Fernie and Gustav battle the Shadow Eater, who seeks The Nightmare Vault for his master, the evil Lord Obsidian, Fernie learns about Gustav's mysterious past and just what happened to his missing parents.
Author
Series
Robbie Forester volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After getting a strange charm bracelet from a homeless woman, thirteen-year-old Robyn Forester and new friends join together to fight injustice in their Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood.
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbors gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants--some of whom have barely spoken to each other--become real neighbors.
Author
Series
Matthew Corbett volume 4
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Still haunted by his encounter with Tyranthus Slaughter, Matthew Corbett is forced to confront a figure from his past who is causing explosions in Matthew's neighborhood.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Beginning in 1959, Abby, nearly eleven, writes a series of letters to Jackie Kennedy, each with sketches of outfits she has designed, as she faces family problems, concerns about neighbors, and her own desperate desire for both her first bra and a Barbie doll.
19) Henry on wheels
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Henry can't wait to take his first solo bike ride. When Mom says he may go only around his block, Henry discovers that there are lots of fascinating things to see close to home--from a hot dog truck to cement mixers."--Dust jacket.
20) Will to survive
Author
Series
Rule of three volume 3
Publisher
Square Fish, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After a global blackout, teenager Adam Daley and his neighbors have turned their middle American community into a fortress, defending against countless enemies, but what is lurking in the dark is a greater danger than ever before: somebody who wants to destroy the neighborhood and Adam at any cost.
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