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Children's Booklist - Moving Fiction Books


Title: Goodbye house
Author: Asch, Frank
Summary: Just before leaving with his family for the move to their new home, Little Bear says goodbye to all his favorite places in and around his old house.


Title: The Berenstain bears' moving day
Author: Berenstain, Stan
Summary: The Bear family decides it is time to move to a larger house.


Title: Rosa's room
Author: Bottner, Barbara
Summary: Rosa searches for things that will fill her room in her new home, but it feels empty until she discovers exactly what is missing.


Title: Moving house
Author: Civardi, Anne
Summary: The Spark family sells their home, works hard packing up and finally moves into a new home.


Title: Lucy's new house
Author: Cork, Barbara
Summary: When Lucy's family moves to a new home, she is sad to leave her old house, school, and friends but feels much better after seeing her new room and meeting a new friend.


Title: A new room for William
Author: Grindley, Sally
Summary: When William and his mother move, he is unhappy about having a new room, but he changes his mind after he gets dinosaur wallpaper and makes a new friend.


Title: Moving day
Author: Kalan, Robert
Summary: A hermit crab looking for a new home tries several different shells before finding one that fits just right.


Title: We're moving!
Author: Maisner, Heather
Summary: When Amy and her family move into a new house, it takes some effort to make it feel like home.


Title: Big Ernie's new home
Author: Martin, Teresa
Summary: A boy and his cat adjust to the newness of their surroundings after the family packs up their home and moves to a new house.


Title: Moving day
Author: Blackaby, Susan
Summary: Easy-to-read text describes how Grandpa, Mom, and Dad try to cheer Ben up while Grandpa packs up to move.


Title: A new home
Author: Bowers, Tim
Summary: Matt the squirrel has a new home, but misses his old friends.


Title: Butterfly fever
Author: Haskins, Lori
Summary: When fourth grader Ellie and her mother leave their home in Oregon to spend a winter in Melville, California, Ellie misses her friends, but she makes new ones in school as they study monarch butterfly migration and prepare for the town's Monarch Festival.


Title: New dog in town
Author: Herman, Gail
Summary: With help from his dog Scout, Nick explores his new neighborhood and makes some friends.


Title: Who will be my friends?
Author: Hoff, Syd
Summary: Freddy moves into a new home and likes his room and neighborhood, but all he needs now is some friends. He searches out until he finds some.


Title: Moving day
Author: Kittinger, Jo S.
Summary: After a girl says goodbye to friends, she and her family load up the car and head for their new house.


Title: We just moved!
Author: Krensky, Stephen.
Summary: When a boy moves with his family to a bigger castle, he finds that some things about life in the new place are different, some things are the same, and he gets more comfortable the longer he is there.


Title: Henry and Mudge and Annie's good move
Author: Rylant, Cynthia
Summary: When Henry's cousin Annie prepares to move in next door he and Mudge help calm her fears.


Title: Did you see Chip?
Author: Yee, Wong Herbert.
Summary: After moving to the city, Kim makes some new friends while looking for her lost dog, Chip.


Title: Making music
Author: Bonners, Susan
Summary: When Annie, her mother, and baby brother move to a new home, they have a lot of work to do, but Annie finds joy at the house of a neighbor who plays piano.


Title: Amber Brown is not a crayon
Author: Danziger, Paula
Summary: 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.


Title: Beekman's big deal
Author: De Guzman, Michael
Summary: Tired of the frequent moves that he and his father must make, twelve-year-old Beekman begins to make connections with neighbors and classmates after settling in a small, unusual New York City neighborhood.


Title: Lowji discovers America
Author: Fleming, Candace
Summary: A nine-year-old East Indian boy tries to adjust to his new life in suburban America.


Title: Mallory on the move
Author: Friedman, Laurie B
Summary: 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.


Title: Herbie Jones moves on
Author: Kline, Suzy
Summary: When his best friend's family plans to move away, Herbie Jones does what he can to cope with the change.


Title: Blow out the moon
Author: Koponen, Libby
Summary: A fictionalized account of the author's childhood experiences moving from the United States to London, England, and attending a boarding school.