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Author
Publisher
NBM
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Charlie is a mouse who's trying to write but has a block. Writing is a solitary endeavor. A bird named Solitude comes to visit him to keep him company. We're never sure he actually exists but in Charlie's mind, yet he brings him out into the world, dares him to experience the unknown, unblocking his little existence-- A drama about the blank page for Charlie who so wants to make the world more beautiful with his writing" -- from publisher's web site....
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
This study used a mixed methods research approach to explore stand-alone overnight solos, differences in experience between men and women, and resulting personal growth. Participants (n= 24) completed an overnight solo in either April or September as part of a college course at Northern Michigan University. Pre- and post-Tennessee Self-Concept Scale: Second Edition tests and in-depth interviews were used to gather data regarding the participants'...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Cloud Strife struggles with his past, and decides to live a solitary life, in a peaceful town with orphans. Then one ordinary day, Cloud receives a phone call for a job asking protection from a mysterious man named Kadaj.
87) Bertolt
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
A boy who knows he is not like other people prefers to be by himself or with his best friend, an oak tree he calls Bertolt, and when the tree dies he must find a way to deal with the fact.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Disdainful of America's booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods near Walden Pond. Walden, the account of his stay, conveys at once a naturalist's wonder at the commonplace and a Transcendentalist's yearning for spiritual truth and self-reliance. But even as Thoreau disentangled himself from worldly matters, his musings were often disturbed by his social conscience....
90) La chica salvaje
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
En Barkley Cove, un tranquilo pueblo de pescadores, circulan extraños rumores sobre la "chica de la marisma". Desde los seis años, Kya deambula completamente sola entre canales y cañaverales, apenas cubierta y descalza. Aunque solo asiste un día a la escuela, la marisma y sus criaturas no tienen secretos para ella: la alimentan, la acunan, la protegen, son sus maestros y compañeras de juego. Kya aprende a descifrar los signos de la naturaleza...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cliff's Notes
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
This history of a family is an amalgamation of Garcia Marquez's shorter fiction, American fiction, biblical parables, and quixotic experiences of his own unique life story. His is a community crowded with people and personal narratives, confusion, and progressive decline. The novel is a journey through life, caught on paper, so real that you'll swear you can smell it.
93) Robinson Crusoe
Author
Series
Historias de siempre volume 14
Publisher
[Alfaguara]
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
Español
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
"With encouragement from her energetic dog, a hesitant child tries swimming at the beach in her own time and discovers a colorful world beneath the surface in this beautifully illustrated picture book."--
97) Loner
Author
Publisher
Text Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Lona kills her days by sneaking into the dark room at her old art school to develop photographs. She kills her nights DJ-ing the roller disco at Planet Skate. She is in inexplicably, debilitatingly love with a bespectacled Doctor Who-obsessed former classmate, and in comfortable, platonic love with her best friend Tab. Lona works hard to portray a permanent attitude of cynicism and ennui but will her carefully constructed persona be enough to protect...
98) Corner
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A quirky and relatable story about balancing creativity and connection. A crow finds itself in an empty corner and begins to make the space its own. First, it furnishes the corner with a bed, a bookshelf, a rug, even a potted plant. In the newly decorated space, the crow reads and eats, listens to music and waters the plant, but something's missing. What is it? The crow decides to decorate more, drawing geometric patterns on the walls in yellow. The...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This story of theft, struggle, and solitude is the true story of a man who lived alone in a tent in the Maine woods for twenty-seven years, never talking to another person and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins. In 1986, a twenty-year-old white man named Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the woods. He would remain alone until nearly three decades later, when he was arrested for stealing...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sport
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Markus Torgeby was just 20 years old when he headed off into the remote Swedish forest to live as a recluse and dedicate himself to his one true passion, running... He lived in a tent in the wilderness, braving the harsh Swedish winters - for four years. This is his story. During his teenage years, Torgeby turned out to be a very talented long-distance runner. However, while Markus performed brilliantly in training, during competitions he often failed...
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