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Alexander, Who’s Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move
Author: Judith Viorst
Angry Alexander refuses to move away if it means having to leave his favorite friends and special place. Ages 5 – 8.
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Amber Brown is Not a Crayon
Author: Paula Danziger
The year she is in the third grade is a sad time for Amber because her best friend Justin is getting ready to move to a distant state. Ages 7 – 10.
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Amelia’s Notebook
Author: Marissa Moss
The hand-lettered contents of a nine-year-old girl's notebook, in which she records her thoughts and feelings about moving, starting school, and dealing with her older sister, as well as keeping her old best friend and making a new one. Ages 7 – 10.
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Bronte’s Book Club
Author: Kristina Gregory
When twelve-year-old Bronte moves to a small California beach town, her idea to form a book club in order to make friends turns out to be a good one, after a rocky start. Ages 8 – 12.
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Ellie McDoodle: New Kid in School
Author: Ruth Barshaw
Ellie writes and doodles in a journal of her family's move to a new home and her struggle to make friends, which gets a lot easier as she leads a nonviolent protest about long lunch lines at school. Ages 8 – 12.
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Fizzy Whiz Kid
Author: Maiya Williams
Moving to Hollywood with his academic parents, eleven-year-old Mitch feels like an outsider in his school where everyone has connections to the powerful and famous in the entertainment industry, until he is cast in a soda commercial that launches a popular catchphrase. Ages 8 – 12
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Half a World Away
Author: Libby Gleeson
When Louie's best friend Amy moves to the other side of the world, Louie must find a way to reconnect with her. Ages 4 – 8.
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Henry and Mudge and Annie’s Good Move
Author: Cynthia Rylant
When Henry's cousin Annie prepares to move in next door, he and Mudge help calm her fears. Ages 6 – 8.
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Homegrown House
Author: Janet Wong
A young girl describes her grandmother's comfortable, long-time home, and wishes that she and her parents could stay in the same house instead of moving so often. Ages 6 - 8.
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Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms : Magic, Mystery, & a Very Strange Adventure
Author: Lissa Evans
Moving away from everything familiar to live in a new house, 10-year-old S. Horten reluctantly befriends the annoying triplets next door and is swept up in a magical quest to find his great-uncle Tony, a famous magician who disappeared along with his fantastical workshop. Ages 8 – 12
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I Like Where I Am
Author: Jessica Harper
A rhyming story of a six-year-old boy who is sad about moving to a new home, but ends up being happy when he gets there. Ages 4 – 10.
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Lost! A Dog Called Bear
Author: Wendy Orr
When Logan's dog runs away as he and his mother are moving to a new home after his parents separate, a girl named Hannah, who longs for a dog of her own, finds him. Ages 7 – 10
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Love Puppies and Corner Kicks
Author: Bob Krech
Thirteen-year-old Andrea is devastated when her parents announce that the family's moving to Scotland for a year-long teacher exchange program, but as she makes new friends, joins a soccer team, and her stutter improves, life doesn't seem so bad. Ages 10 – 14.
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Lowji Discovers America
Author: Candace Fleming
A nine-year-old East Indian boy tries to adjust to his new life in suburban America. Ages 7 – 11.
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Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel
Author: Nikki Grimes
Spunky third-grader Dyamonde Daniel misses her old neighborhood, but when she befriends a boy named Free, another new student at school, she finally starts to feel at home. Ages 7 – 9.
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Mallory on the Move
Author: Laurie B. Friedman
After moving to a new town, eight-year-old Mallory keeps throwing stones in the "Wishing Pond" but things will not go back to the way they were before, and she remains torn between old and new best friends. Ages 7 – 10.
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Maybe Yes, Maybe No, Maybe Maybe
Author: Susan Patron
When her hardworking mother decides to move, eight-year-old PK uses her imagination and storytelling to help her older and younger sisters adjust. Ages 7 – 12.
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Moving Day
Author: Fran Manushkin
When Katie Woo's family moves, she is sad about leaving her room to a stranger, and even more concerned that the new house will never feel like home. Ages 5 – 7.
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Moving Day
Author: Meg Cabot
Nine-year-old Allie Finkle has rules for everything and is even writing her own rule book, but her world is turned upside-down when she learns that her family is moving across town, which will mean a new house, school, best friend, and plenty of new rules. Ages 8 – 12.
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Moving House
Author: Mark Siegel
When Joey and Chloe and their family are getting ready to move, their house decides it wants to go too. Ages 4 – 7
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Moving to a New House
Author: Nicola Barber
Photographs and simple text detail what it is like to move into a new home, and covers packing, loading the truck, spending the first night in a new house, and other related topics. Ages 5 – 7.
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Neville
Author: Norton Juster
When a boy and his family move to a new house, he devises an ingenious way to meet people in the neighborhood. Ages 4 – 8
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New Home
Author: Tim Bowers
Matt the squirrel has a new home, but misses his old friends. Ages 4 – 8.
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Nini Here and There
Author: Anita Lobel
Fearing at first that her family is going on vacation without her, Nini the cat ends up traveling with her owners to their new home. Ages 4 – 7.
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Oliver at the Window
Author: Elizabeth Shreeve
When Oliver's parents move into separate houses, he spends a lot of time looking out of windows with his pet lion as he adjusts to a new preschool and to living in two places. Ages 4 – 6.
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Pinky and Rex and the New Neighbors
Author: James Howe
Rex and her best friend Pinky are upset to learn that their friend and neighbor Mrs. Morgan is moving, and it looks like a family with an obnoxious boy named Ollie is set to move in. Ages 6 – 8.
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You’re Mean, Lily Jean!
Author: Frieda Wishinsky
Sisters Carly and Sandy have always played together, but when Lily moves in next door she only wants to play with Sandy, and insists that if Carly joins them she must be a baby, or a cow, or a dog. Ages 4 – 8
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