Blood Mountain by Preller, James 

BTSB Prebound(Feiwel and Friends, 2019)

BTSB #: 730533 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.6 MG Lexile: 630

Genres: Adventure Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Lost children - Fiction Hiking - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Hermits - Fiction

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Grace and her eleven-year-old brother Carter are watched by a mountain man when they get lost during a strenuous hike on Blood Mountain.

Cleo Porter and the body electric by Burt, Jake 

Paperback(Square Fish/Feiwel and Friends, 2021)

BTSB #: 175992 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.2 MG RC: 5.3 6-8 Lexile: 740

Genres: Science Fiction

Subjects: Science fiction Hermits - Fiction Future life - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Epidemics - Fiction

Summary: In the future, Cleo's building houses hundreds of families, none of whom see each other. In an emergency, Cleo must devise a way to get out, and when she does, she sees much more than she bargains for.

Cleo Porter and the body electric by Burt, Jake 

BTSB Prebound(Feiwel and Friends, 2021)

BTSB #: 176728 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.2 MG RC: 5.3 6-8 Lexile: 740

Genres: Science Fiction

Subjects: Science fiction Hermits - Fiction Future life - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Epidemics - Fiction

Summary: In the future, Cleo's building houses hundreds of families, none of whom see each other. In an emergency, Cleo must devise a way to get out, and when she does, she sees much more than she bargains for.

Ruby in the sky by Ferruolo, Jeanne Zulick 

Paperback(Square Fish/Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2020)

BTSB #: 333286 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.1 MG RC: 3.4 3-5 Lexile: 600

Genres: General Fiction

Subjects: Friendship - Fiction Single-parent families - Fiction Moving - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction School stories Hermits - Fiction

Summary: When Ruby Moon Hayes, twelve, and her mother move to tiny Fortin, Vermont, Ruby is surprised to make friends at school and in the neighborhood, where a reclusive lady hides a huge secret.

Ruby in the sky by Ferruolo, Jeanne Zulick 

BTSB Prebound(Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2019)

BTSB #: 333290 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.1 MG RC: 3.4 3-5 Lexile: 600

Genres:

Subjects: Friendship - Fiction Single-parent families - Fiction Moving - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction School stories Hermits - Fiction

Summary: When Ruby Moon Hayes, twelve, and her mother move to tiny Fortin, Vermont, Ruby is surprised to make friends at school and in the neighborhood, where a reclusive lady hides a huge secret.

Swashby and the sea by Ferry, Beth 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020)

BTSB #: 333325 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-7   
AR: 3.4 LG Lexile: 620 AD F&P: O

Genres: General Fiction

Subjects: Hermits - Fiction Neighbors - Fiction Ocean - Fiction Friendship - Fiction

Summary: No-nonsense Captain Swashby is used to the sea meeting all of his needs and when, after his retirement, new neighbors disturb his solitary life, the sea helps in just the right way.

Where the crawdads sing by Owens, Delia 

Paperback(Putnam, 2021)

BTSB #: 694936 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.9 UG Lexile: 880

Genres: Mystery Fiction

Subjects: Abandoned children - Fiction Hermits - Fiction Solitude - Fiction Mystery fiction North Carolina - Fiction

Summary: For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. When two young men from town become intrigued by Kya, the unthinkable happens.