When twelve-year-old Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a horse ranch in New York, she has a hard time adjusting to her changed circumstances, as does a new horse that has come to the ranch.

When her sister, star-athlete Jakarta, finally joins them, Dakar feels much safer and happier in Cottonwood, North Dakota, where she and their parents are living for a year, but she still longs for their home in Africa.

After the death of his best friend, Elam reluctantly moves with his family to the desert, where he wrestles with homesickness, loneliness, grief, and the search for new friendship.

Penguin likes to visit his friend Duck but he begins to miss some of the things at home. How can Duck cheer up his homesick friend? This illustrated story shows young readers the benefit of caring for the feelings of others. Book features: Big Words and Big Questions.

Newlyweds Jack and Hannah Byler are nestled for the winter in their rustic log cabin near Montana's Cabinet Mountains. Hannah becomes anxious about the mysterious noises in the night outside their door. If only the couple could move back to her childhood home in Indiana. Yet Jack insists God wants them in Montana. Then tragedy strikes, and Hannah wonders if God has entirely forsaken them.

Cartwheel has arrived in a new country, and feels the loss of all she's ever known. She creates a safe place for herself under an "old blanket" made out of memories and thoughts of home. But when she meets a new friend, the relationship helps her take her first steps into a new culture, and Cartwheel begins to weave a "new blanket," one of friendship and a renewed sense of belonging.

Big Bird goes to stay with his grandmother at the beach and is homesick until he makes a new friend.

Colorful illustrations and text written in both English and Spanish tell a story about a young girl named Mimi, who was disappointed because she couldn't spend Christmas with her family in Puerto Rico, so her classmates prepared a little surprise for her.

"Lily and her parents move to a new home in New York City. Everything is so new and different, which makes Lily even more homesick."--

While staying at her grandparents' farm until the birth of her mother's baby, homesick Betsy learns a lesson about independence when she witnesses the birth and migration of a gosling.