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Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Grandma comes to visit, and his parents leave them alone, the boy's grandmother encourages him to imitate a jaguar, until completely transformed they venture out into the night, exploring the world from a new perspective, and with a new freedom--until it is difficult to distinguish imagination from reality.
5) I'm bored
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a bored girl meets a potato who finds children tedious, she tries to prove him wrong by demonstrating all of the things they can do, from turning cartwheels to using their imaginations.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
A retelling of the Caribbean folktale La cucaracha Martina where Martina, in an effort to escape her noisy tías, slips away to a warm familiar island where she can play in peace and quiet--but is she home at last?
15) Dream on, Amber
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amber's Japanese father left when she was little, and her sister Bella was just a baby, so now she fills in the frustrating gap in her life with imagined conversations, and writes letters to Bella that seem to come from their father.
16) Moonflower
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Moon is convinced that they do not belong to this world: that most of the time they are invisible (unless they stay still too long), that they belong to the stars, and want to go back to them--they live entirely in their imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest their words tie them to a world they reject.
20) The hideout
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Hannah ignores the voice calling to her and stays in the park with the Odd Furry Creature, making a home in a secret hideout, until, after a long time passes, she hears the voice again.