loneliness

"A woman is dying. Cleo Porter has her medicine. And no way to deliver it. Like everyone else, twelve-year-old Cleo and her parents are sealed in an apartment without windows or doors. They never leave. They never get visitors. Their food is dropped off by drones. So they're safe. Safe from the disease that nearly wiped humans from the earth. Safe from everything. The trade-off? They're alone. Thus, when they receive a package clearly meant for someone else--a package containing a substance critical for a stranger's survival--Cleo is stuck. As a surgeon-in-training, she knows the clock is ticking. But people don't leave their units"--From the publisher's web site.

Whale's beautiful song calms a wriggly octopus, cheers a sad urchin, and much more, but cannot cure his loneliness without the help of his friends.

Moving to a small Massachusetts town and finding it hard to make friends, thirteen-year-old Jannie takes a job with Mr. Flower, "the mad hermit of Winterfield, " helping him tame and groom a pony.

"Rudy's life is flipped upside-down when his family moves to a remote, magical island in a last attempt to save his sick younger brother, Dylan. While Dylan recovers, Rudy sinks deeper and deeper into his loneliness"--Provided by publisher.

"Little Mole has no friends since moving to a new home so he molds a snowball into a bear, wishing that it will come to life"--Provided by publisher.

One Australian summer, two very different sixteen-year-old girls--Charlie, a talented but shy musician, and Rose, a confident student longing to escape her tiny town--are drawn into an unexpected friendship, as told in their alternating voices.

In the late 1970s in rural Maine, seven-year-old Asta Hewitt and her brother are convinced by their delusional mother that the world outside their home is a wasteland, and when her mother disappears, Asta has the opportunity to venture beyond her comfort zone.

A young boy who spends most of his time alone in his bedroom makes new friends after the monster in his drawing becomes a monstrous nuisance.

Presents a children's story and storytime DVD about Little Bear, who finds a cave that is just the right size for him, but at bedtime he starts thinking about Big Bear, all alone in their big Bear Cave.

Sixteen-year-old Alex feels so disconnected from his friends that he starts his junior year at a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, high school by attempting suicide, but soon, a friend of his older brother draws him into cross-country running and a new understanding of himself.