neighborhood

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Alabaster Shadows

2015
When Carter Normandy and his family move to Alabaster Shadows, he can already tell something is not right, but he is not sure what it is until he and his new schoolmates investigate a discovery in Carter's basement.

The beast of Baskerville

2014
The legend about Jimmy Leeds, a boy turned beast, haunts the residents of Baskerville, and when all the kids in the neighborhood decide to have a giant campout, they begin to disappear one by one, prompting Adam to follow strange footprints into the woods, leading him face-to-face with the Beast.

Emily and the mighty om

2014
Albert the yogi is stuck--all twisted up like a pretzel. Everyone from the lifeguard to the librarian shows up to help, but only little Emily knows what to do. Will she find the courage to speak up?.

Maybe something beautiful

how art transformed a neighborhood
Mira lives in a gray and hopeless urban community until a muralist arrives and, along with his paints and brushes, brings color, joy, and togetherness to Mira and her neighbors.

When I was the greatest

Ali lives in Bed-Stuy, a Brooklyn neighborhood known for guns and drugs, but he and his sister, Jazz, and their neighbors, Needles and Noodles, stay out of trouble until they go to the wrong party, where one gets badly hurt and another leaves with a target on his back.

Miracle on 133rd Street

2015
The day before Christmas, everyone in Jose's neighborhood seems grumpy, including his mother who is homesick for Puerto Rico, but when he and his parents return from the pizzeria where they borrowed an oven to cook their roast, the heavenly aroma reminds those they pass of all they have to celebrate.

Ask me

A father and daughter explore their neighborhood, talking and asking questions as they go.

Fallout

2015
Scott's dad is the only one in the neighborhood who builds a bomb shelter during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and when the time comes, more neighbors enter the shelter than Scott's dad is prepared for.

A man called Ove

a novel
2014
When a new, chatty, young couple and their two daughters move in next door, Ove's well-ordered, solitary world turns upside down.

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