homesickness

During World War II, seven-year-old Merry Primrose Ramsay is sent from England to live with relatives in the United States, where, despite missing her parents and feeling homesick, she has many adventures while going to school and learning to fish and knit.

Ian learns to adjust to his new home and his parent's divorce when he is befriended by his elderly neighbor Mr. Mah.

Colorful illustrations and text written in both English and Spanish tell a story about a young girl named Mimi, who was disappointed because she couldn't spend Christmas with her family in Puerto Rico, so her classmates prepared a little surprise for her.

Ron and the other animals decide to have a fiesta to help Ron's cousin, a tree frog from the rainforest of Costa Rica, feel less homesick.

Thirteen-year-old Mary Harold, not getting along with the kids at her new school and having convinced her mother to allow her to live with her grandmother, finds the physical and emotional strength to help a Cherokee farm manager with his herd and defend his daughter who does not fit in.

Nine-year-old Charlie and her horse befriend a boy and his pony, who have just moved to the island where she lives but are homesick for Iceland.

Eddie Elephant battles a serious case of home sickness at camp but soon realizes that he is not alone in his feelings about missing home. Includes facts about elephants.

A beautiful stone that has lain in the forest for thousands of years is split in two, and one half goes on a long journey through many places, many owners, and many transformations, its heart continually breaking as it longs for home.

Nine-year-old Sylvie and her family leave the city for a week at a beach house where everything feels different.

Josephina, a javelina who dreams of becoming a famous ballerina, heads for California hoping to be discovered, but her cousin Angelina takes her to a talent agent who looks strangely familiar.