recluses

In small-town Australia, teens Jasper and Charlie form an unlikely friendship when one asks the other to help him cover up a murder until they can prove who is responsible.

A chance meeting between sixteen-year-old Jamal Wallace, a basketball phenomenon with secret literary ambitions, and recluse William Forrester, a one-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author, yields unexpected rewards for both men.

A not quite human being exists alone in a remote Idaho cabin. When his mother is incapacitated, a young woman guesses part of the mystery and begins bringing him supplies.

When it is announced that their favorite comic series is ending, Luke and Sophie go in search of its creator in order to try and save the series.

Edmund Gravel, known as the Recluse of Lower Spigot, is preparing to take tea alone on Christmas Eve when he is visited by the Bahhum Bug, as well as three spectres who show him affecting, distressing, and heart-rending scenes.

Fourteen-year-old Joseph reluctantly agrees to draw a portrait of his reclusive neighbor, Tom, for a class assignment, and over time, like the silkworms Tom raises, both men come out of their cocoons and face their fears.

A recluse, having written stories peopled with beloved characters, releases them into the world on hot-air balloons, hoping they will find life and return to him.

In Riddle, where strange things often happen, fifth-grader Jesse Ranger and three classmates, all big fans of B-grade monster movies made by a reclusive local director, are recruited to round up the creatures that are coming to life when original films are shown.

During the summer of 1976, twelve-year-old Raleia Pendle feels like a misfit with her hippie parents and begins a friendship with the town recluse.