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Even before 2020, chronic loneliness was a private experience of profound anguish that had become a public health crisis. Since then it has reached new heights. Loneliness assumes many forms, from enduring physical isolation to feeling rejected because of difference, and it can have devastating consequences for our physical and mental health. As the founder of Project UnLonely, Jeremy Nobel unpacks our personal and national experience of loneliness...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. But Kya is not what they say. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life lessons from the...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Text and illustrations describe some of the special places that one can go to be quiet and alone and to imagine, such as a woods, a seashore, a library, or inside oneself.
5) A whole life
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Set in the mid-twentieth century and told with beauty and tenderness, Robert Seethaler's A Whole Life is a story of man's relationship with an ancient landscape, of the value of solitude, of the arrival of the modern world, and above all, of the moments, great and small, that make us who we are.
6) Boot & Shoe
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Boot and Shoe are dogs that live in the same house, eat from the same bowl, and sleep in the same bed but spend their days on separate porches until a squirrel mixes things up.
7) Home alone
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Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"How much trouble can a cute, little dog get into when she's left alone at home all day? With the human out to work, this pup knows how to live! She rides scooters, makes delicious sandwiches, and plays dress-up in fabulous out ts. It turns out the most important thing is to clean up after all the chaos she's created. Home Alone is a fun story with adorable illustrations. Anyone who has ever wondered what dogs do all day will love reading this again...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A boy enjoys living quietly by himself at The End of the World until Mr. Constantine Shimmer, "Professional Visionary," builds an inn and an amusement park, demanding that tourists come and have "Fun Without End!"
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In 1993, Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge spent fifty days walking solo across Antarctica, becoming the first person to reach the South Pole alone, accompanied only by a radio whose batteries he had removed before setting out. In this book, an astonishing and transformative meditation, Kagge explores the silence around us, the silence within us, and the silence we must create. By recounting his own experience and discussing the observations of poets,...
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Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"In [his earlier book] 'Making Toast', Roger Rosenblatt shared the story of his family in the days and months after the death of his thirty-eight-year-old daughter, Amy. Now, in 'Kayak Morning', he offers a personal meditation on grief itself. 'Everybody grieves,' he writes. From that terse, melancholy observation emerges a work of art that addresses the universal experience of loss. On a quiet Sunday morning, two and a half years after Amy's death,...
13) Leave me alone
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Grandmother wants so badly to be left alone to finish the knitting for her grandchildren that she leaves her tiny home and her big family to journey to the moon and beyond to find peace and quiet to finish her knitting.
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Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A wise, passionate account of the pleasures of traveling solo In our increasingly frantic daily lives, many people are genuinely fearful of the prospect of solitude, but time alone can be both rich and restorative, especially when traveling. Through on-the-ground reporting and recounting the experiences of artists, writers, and innovators who cherished solitude, Stephanie Rosenbloom considers how being alone as a traveler--and even in one's own city--is...
16) Alone!
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Publisher
Pavilion
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
There once was a boy called Billy McGill who lived by himself at the top of a hill. He spent every day in his house all alone for Billy McGill liked to be on his own. But life doesn't always turn out how you plan it... One day, Billy hears the squeak of a mouse -- destroying his perfectly peaceful existence. So he gets a cat to catch the mouse. But the cat and the mouse make friends. So he gets a dog to chase the cat. But they all play together too....
17) Distant shores
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Language
English
Description
Elizabeth and Jackson Shore married young, raised two daughters, and weathered the storms of youth as they built a family. From a distance, their lives look perfect. But after the girls leave home, Jack and Elizabeth quietly drift apart.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the mountains of Peru, friends Hector the bear and Hummingbird the hummingbird spend most of their time together, doing the same things, and Hector has had just about enough of it--or has he? Includes a list of animals hidden in the illustrations.
19) Leyla
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Leyla has a BIG family. They are noisy and fussy and busy. And she needs a break. With the help of a new friend, will Leyla find some peace and quiet?
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