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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Lexile measure
AD 580L
Language
English
Description
Going to her grandmother's house for a first sleep-away visit, Amy enjoys a wonderful shared day before missing her mother, baby brother, and dog at night and assuaging her homesickness with three objects that she has brought with her.
Author
Publisher
Creston Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Moving from the wide world to the snugness of home and back out again, Village by the Sea tells the story of longing for the comforts of home"--
The story of a fisherman a fisherman who longs to return to the woman and child in a hillside home.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
An engineer in Vietnam is shaken when he discovers why his company's planes are getting lost, a marriage between a Thai Muslim and an American woman sparks a terrible family fight, and a young woman in 1920s Siam experiences her brother's colonial stance.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Ruby's homesickness spreads to other students at Master Willow's School for Ninjas, she uses all of the skills she has learned to help them feel better. Includes instructions for making a dragon toy two different ways.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 550L
Language
English
Description
When Buster the dog's owner goes away for a few days, he sends Buster to Sagebrush Kennels for Cowboy Camp, where Buster is homesick at first, but then has fun herding balls into the corral, gathering sticks for a campfire, and making wanted posters with his pawprints.
10) My two blankets
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 480L
Language
English
Description
A homesick little girl who has recently moved to an unfamiliar country comforts herself by clinging to an old blanket, but when she meets a new friend, the relationship helps her take her first steps into a new culture.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 610L
Language
English
Description
Although Lolly loves to visit her Auntie Zep's house, she feels homesick when she actually gets there, and so Auntie Zep retrieves the Secret Remedy Book from an old trunk.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Harper loves spending time with her gorgeous new kitten, Sammy. He likes sitting in the window, exploring their flat and playing in the garden. But then Harper and her family have to move in with her gran after she has a bad fall, and everything changes. Sammy doesn't feel at home at Gran's house. He misses the smells and sounds of the flat, his real home. So when he spots an opportunity to go back, he takes it. But Sammy soon discovers home is more...
Author
Publisher
Published by Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
AD 340L
Language
English
Description
"When a boy notices the new girl collecting litter on their walks home, he wants to know why. She shows him the mural she's created that reminds her of the home she left behind. They both find how wonderful it is to make a new friend"--
17) Me and Mr. Mah
Author
Publisher
Orca
Pub. Date
2001.
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Ian learns to adjust to his new home and his parent's divorce when he is befriended by his elderly neighbor Mr. Mah.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Mary Lou grows up considerably during the summer while learning about romance, homesickness, death, and her cousin's search for his biological father.
20) Wild girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a horse ranch in New York, she has a hard time adjusting to her changed circumstances, as does a new horse that has come to the ranch.