neighborhood

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Gustav Gloom and the People Taker

2012
Fernie What, an adventurous young horror fan, moves into the house across the street from the dark mansion of a mysterious boy whose residence is haunted by evil shadows.

Gustav Gloom and the nightmare vault

2013
As Fernie and Gustav battle the Shadow Eater, who seeks The Nightmare Vault for his master, the evil Lord Obsidian, Fernie learns about Gustav's mysterious past and just what happened to his missing parents.

Gem of the ocean

2006
A play by August Wilson in which Aunt Ester, the 285-year-old matriarch of a African-American family, helps two young men start their lives over in 1904.

What happened on Fox Street

2011
Fox Street means everything to Mo Wren, who is nearly eleven, and so she is very upset when a land developer offers to buy her father's house, especially since she has not yet found the fox she is sure lives in the nearby ravine.

A place where hurricanes happen

2010
Told in alternating voices, four friends from the same New Orleans neighborhood describe what happens to them and their community when they are separated, then reunited, as a result of Hurricane Katrina.

Waking up Wendell

2007
Early in the morning, a bird begins to sing at number One Fish Street, waking the man next door and his dog, and before long, as one noise leads to another, everyone on the street is awake.

Special delivery

2009
Flora and Ruby anxiously await the arrival of their first cousin--a baby who is being adopted by their aunt Allie around the Thanksgiving holiday.

Be my neighbor

2004
Colorful photographs from around the world and simple text introduce the characteristics of a neighborhood and the concept of community.

Robbie Forester and the outlaws of Sherwood St.

2012
After getting a strange charm bracelet from a homeless woman, thirteen-year-old Robyn Forester and new friends join together to fight injustice in their Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood.

The boy who ate stars

2006
Upon moving to a new apartment, twelve-year-old Lucy befriends an autistic boy who lives upstairs and, along with her friend Theo and a pampered pooch, takes Matthew on neighborhood adventures hoping to open him up to the world around them.

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