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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
George is excited to attend his first sleepover, but he doesn't anticipate how worried he will feel, and luckily, his friends are there to help him overcome his homesickness.
5) Honkers
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
While staying at her grandparents' farm until the birth of her mother's baby, homesick Betsy learns a lesson about independence when she witnesses the birth and migration of a gosling.
Author
Publisher
Creston Books, LLC
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"-- Provided by publisher. It is written in a spare, lyrical style with illustrations showing a dog and a cricket at a fishing village home and back out to sea where a fisherman longs to return to the woman and child in his hillside home.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
At home in San Francisco, May speaks Japanese and the family eats rice and miso soup and drinks green tea. When she visits her friends' homes, she eats fried chicken and spaghetti. May plans someday to go to college and live in an apartment of her own. But when her family moves back to Japan, she soon feels lost and homesick for America. In Japan everyone calls her by her Japanese name, Masako. She has to wear kimonos and sit on the floor. Poor May...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Ren moves to Ava's city, he feels lost without the green and magic of his home, but not everything in the city is what meets the eye and Ren discovers that nothing makes you feel at home quite like a friend--
Author
Series
Iris and Walter volume 4
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Iris's first sleepover at her friend Walter's house ends early when Iris gets homesick and wants to go home.
14) 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.
15) The quiet place
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little girl moves to the United States from Mexico with her family and writes letters to her aunt in Mexico about her new life.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Every day, Angelina dreams of her home in Jamaica and imagines she is there, until her mother finds a wonderful way to convince her that New York is now their home. Angelina's heart aches for Jamaica, and no matter how much Mama talks of having a bet
Author
Publisher
Phyllis Fogelman Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hassan, newly-arrived in the United States and feeling homesick, paints a picture at school that shows his old home in Somalia as well as the reason his family had to leave.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When young Lucy travels from Latin America to visit relatives in Ohio, she is very homesick until she realizes that the only way to communicate with her cousin's frisky dog is to learn to speak English.
Sumario en espanol: Cuando la nina Lucy viaja desde America Latina a Ohio para visitar a los parientes, ella es muy nostalgica hasta enterarse que la unica manera de comunicarse con el perro jugueton de su primo...
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Initially excited about going to Camp Wickitawa with the rest of her class over spring vacation, fourth-grader Effie is horrified to discover that her bossy older sister is going to be a camp cook, and even worse, she unexpectedly becomes hopelessly homesick upon her arrival.
20) My two blankets
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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.
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