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"Imagine a world where you always have a place at the table, where you always have a friend. This reassuring and empowering book from Emily Ley helps kids realize that they can always have a place, and offers them practical tools to give them confidence and help them overcome lonely times"-- Provided by publisher.

"Emotions are like a rainbow-there is a color for every one we feel. And when the lonely feeling starts to take over the rainbow, it's time for The Gray Book! Simple activities, tips, and tricks help young readers whose lonely gray shines brightest in the rainbows of their colorful minds. They can turn the pages from front to back or back to front. They can use every single page or open the book to just one random page. Soon, the other colors of their...

"Valentine's Day is near, but Otto the otter feels as lonely as ever! He would love a friend to play with, but this can be quite scary when you're shy. When he spots another otter who is always on her own, he thinks he's found someone just like him... Will this lonely otter pluck up the courage to discover if she is his perfect match?"--

In the world of video game Minecraft, Jeremy lives in the biggest city in the Overworld, surrounded by tall buildings, redstone wonders, and many people, but still he feels lonely and wants a friend.

"Imbued with a deep sensitivity for its subjects, and a light touch of memoir that contends with Deming's own struggles with loneliness, THIS EXQUISITE LONELINESS is a singular meditation on the ways that loneliness pervades the human condition, as well as an assertion of the ways in which we might allow our own loneliness to fuel our creative fires. Loneliness is not a feeling to which we readily admit. It is stigmatized, freighted with shame and...

Lonely forest ranger Fraser sets out on an adventure to find a new friend.

The year is 3020. Pip@256X#YY.3-7 is lonely and bored: she goes to virtual school on her G-Glasses, she only has a talking cat and parrot to hang out with, and she can't even leave her LivingSpace due to the extreme heat and floods outside. Until the day that Pip explores a glowing ring in a lab and finds herself in a warehouse, in 2019. Where she meets boy-inventor Rahul, who is also lonely and bored. Together, Rahul and Pip are no longer lonely....

"Goose sees how popular Phoenix is--always surrounded by other birds. Phoenix sees Goose with his flock, and wishes he had a family like them. They soon realize they don't have to be lonely if they have a friend in each other!"--

Jina is the top employee at a call center, but despite talking to customers all day, she has shut out the world beyond her headset; she lives alone, eats alone, sleeps alone, and her cell phone is her constant companion. When one day she's tasked with training a friendly and nav̐e new hire, her icy armor is threatened. At the same time, she must navigate an incessantly ingratiating new neighbor, and an increasingly urgent phone call from her father,...

"Every day, in a house by the sea, a little boy watches his father leave for a long day's work. One night, a great storm washes a small whale onto the beach. The boy discovers the whale is a good listener. The father discovers the boy is lonely. Together, they return the whale to the sea. And from that day on, the boy learns that the father can be a good listener too"-- Provided by publisher.