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4) Oma's quilt
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Emily's grandmother has moved into a retirement home. It is not easy for her to leave her home and friends. When Emily goes for a visit, she finds her grandmother seated in the corner of her new room. Nothing makes her happy. At home, Emily and her mother go through Oma's things. They find many treasures and a way of making Oma feel at home.
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Cartwheel has arrived in a new country, and feels the loss of all she's ever known. She creates a safe place for herself under an "old blanket" made out of memories and thoughts of home. But when she meets a new friend, the relationship helps her take her first steps into a new culture, and Cartwheel begins to weave a "new blanket, " one of friendship and a renewed sense of belonging.
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"Mónica and Hannah are school kids in the big city. Together, they have formed the Homesick Club, since they are both from far away. Mónica misses the family of hummingbirds that she and her grandmother would feed in her backyard in Bolivia every day. Hannah misses the sunshine and the tiny tortoise that lived near her house in Israel. When a new teacher, Miss Shelby, arrives from Texas, the girls discover that she misses her home, too, especially...
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Magic animal cafe volume 2
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Worried about the future of the cat café, Ellie and Blake investigate a rumour at the local park. It's the perfect place to test their new ability to understand animals, and there's a bird who's happy to talk. Shazza the cockatoo is loud, bossy and obsessed with 'numnums'. All she wants is to return to Australia. But for now she'll settle for inviting herself home with Ellie and Blake, who soon learn that getting along with animals can be just as...
12) Wild girl
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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.
14) A bit of Earth
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"Difficult child Maria Latif arrives in Long Island from Pakistan to live with the strange Clayborne family where she discovers an off-limits garden that becomes a place where she finally feels at home"--
Growing up in Pakistan, Maria Latif has been bounced between reluctant relatives for as long as she can remember--first because of her parents' constant travel, and then because of their deaths. Maria has always been a difficult child, and it never...
15) Jakarta missing
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When her sister, star-athlete Jakarta, finally joins them, Dakar feels much safer and happier in Cottonwood, Minnesota, where she and their parents are living for a year, but she still longs for their home in Africa.
16) Sugar in milk
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"A young immigrant girl joins her aunt and uncle in a new country that is unfamiliar to her. She struggles with loneliness, with a fierce longing for the culture and familiarity of home, until one day, her aunt takes her on a walk. As the duo strolls through their city park, the girl's aunt begins to tell her an old myth, and a story within the story begins. A long time ago, a group of refugees arrived on a foreign shore. The local king met them,...
17) Homesick horse
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When Aunt Betty arrives at the Willis family's Wyoming ranch from California, Winnie is tasked with training her aunt's homesick horse Buck, something that Winnie finds hard to understand until she is invited to her first sleepover.
18) A bit of Earth
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"Ever since Maria Latif's parents died, she has been shuffled from one relative to the next, each one seeming to count down the days till they could pass her on. And that's how she's ended up in America, where old friends of her parents say they can "give her a better life." But the Clayborne house and even the Claybornes themselves have a few surprises for Maria. The garden in the back of the estate's grounds, for example. No one will talk about...