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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the internationally bestselling A Man Called Ove, a charming, warmhearted novel about a young girl whose grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters, sending her on a journey that brings to life the world of her grandmother's fairy tales"--
Elsa is seven years old; her grandmother is seventy-seven years old. She is Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother's stories, in the Land of...
22) The stone wall
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Anna is eager to begin a new chapter in her life as a Lancaster County tour guide in the picturesque area where her Plain grandmother once stayed. Anna wishes she could talk with her grandmother about those long-ago days, but the elderly woman suffers from Alzheimer's, and beyond a vague hint about an old stone wall, much about that time is a mystery. Thankfully, Martin Nolt, a handsome Mennonite, takes the young Beachy Amish woman under his wing...
23) Knit the season
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
260 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dakota Walker--along with her father, her grandparents, and her mother's best friend, Catherine--visits her Gran for the Christmas holidays in Scotland, where the family members reminisce about Dakota's mother, Georgia.
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Lili loves to cook little dumplings called baos with her grandmother, but when cabbage is needed, Lili races up and down the stairs of her grandmother's apartment building to find the ingredient and help the other grandmothers borrow ingredients for different dumplings, from Jamaican meat patties and Italian ravioli to Lebanese fatayer and more.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Joy Preston misses her beloved late grandmother dearly. But when she learns the terms of Nana's will, she's shocked-and more than a little irked. Joy moved to Colorado years ago and is now CEO of a successful nail polish company. Her life and career are in Denver. How can Nana have expected her to give that up, even temporarily, to take over a bed and breakfast in North Carolina for six months? Yet there's no denying Heart and Soul's charm, especially...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
130 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.
Author
Series
Nana in the City volume 2
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When city Nana visits the country, her grandchild is excited to introduce her to all the friendly and wild and magical things he loves. But Nana already knows about them all. Is there anything new he can show her?
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A young boy rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
156 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discovering Grandma Lou's mysterious "bucket list" of things that she wants to do in her lifetime, Judy Moody is inspired to create a list of her own goals, from learning to do a cartwheel to visiting Antarctica.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
148 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"By heeding their wise grandmother's advice, a brother and sister discover the ability to lift themselves up and imagine a better world"--
36) Forever my own
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1871, Kirstin Hallberg arrives in Duluth, Minnesota, to find the city council intent on building a canal and ensuring the city's rise to greatness. She's come to care for her elderly grandmother Lena Segerson only to discover Lena very full of life and full of secrets. For when Kirstin opens their front door one day, she finds the brother she long thought dead on the other side. Domar begs his sister to say nothing to their parents, viewing their...
37) Notorious
Author
Series
Long tall Texans volume 53
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gaby Dupont knows some men shouldn't be trusted. Ever. Especially not high-profile lawyer Nicholas Chandler. How can she trust the man who might be helping one of her horrible relatives weasel out of the consequences for their bad behavior? To get the inside scoop on Nicholas's dealings - and protect herself and her beloved grand-mère - Gaby must take a job with the devil himself. Of course, she can't tell him who she really is . . . Nicholas...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana isn't overly worried. After all, Granny has many middle-of-the-night ideas. But this time, things are different. This time, Granny intends for them never to return. Separated from her best friends, Raymie and Beverly, Louisiana struggles to oppose the winds of fate (and Granny)...
Author
Series
Bear in the Big Blue House volume 2
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the help of his good friends, Tutter gets things clean before the arrival of his grandmother - only to end up a dirty mess himself.
Author
Series
Debutantes volume 1
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighteen-year-old Sawyer accepts her estranged grandmother's bribe to live with her for a year, participate in the debutante season and ball, and possibly meet the father she has never known.