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1) Heidi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The beloved story of Heidi, the little girl who scrambles through mountain meadows with the goats, brings joy to a blind grandmother, helps a friend learn to walk again, and restores hope and love to a grandfather. Adapted for young children Heidi's age.
2) Heartbeat
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and running partner) becomes distant.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte/Laure-Leaf
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Kit goes to live with his grandfather in the decaying coal mining town of Stoneygate, England, and finds both the old man and the town haunted by ghosts of the past.
4) Three Names
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of a shocking tragedy, Natalie Harper inherits her mother's charming but financially strapped bookshop in San Francisco. She also becomes caretaker for her ailing grandfather Andrew, her only living relative--not counting her scoundrel father. But the gruff, deeply kind Andrew has begun displaying signs of decline. Natalie thinks it's best to move him to an assisted living facility to ensure the care he needs. To pay for it, she plans...
Author
Series
The Treasures of Nome volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When her grandfather's health begins to decline, Havyn is determined to keep her family together. But everyone has secrets--including John, the hired stranger who recently arrived on their farm. To help out Havyn starts singing at a local roadhouse--but dangerous eyes grow jealous as she and John grow closer. Will they realize the peril before it is too late?
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Life is meant to be savored, but that's not easy with no family, limited prospects and a past you'd rather not talk about. Still, Callie Smith doesn't know how to feel when she discovers she has a brother and a sister - Malcolm, who grew up with affection, wealth and privilege, and Keira, a streetwise twelve-year-old. Callie doesn't love being alone, but at least it's safe. Despite her trepidation, she moves into the grand family home with her siblings...
10) Caleb's story
Author
Series
Publisher
Joanna Cotler/HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Sequel to: Skylark.
The stranger lurking on the Witting family's prairie farm turns out to be their long-lost grandfather, whose presence plus prodding from Sarah forces Jacob to deal with his past.
12) Kindred souls
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ten year-old Jake shares a special bond with his grandfather, Billy, but when Billy asks Jake to build him a sod house, Jake is not sure he wants to do it.
13) Grandpa's song
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
14) Beauty
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[c1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Unhappy about his parents splitting up and moving with his mother to Grandpa's farm, eleven-year-old Luke finds comfort in riding and caring for a horse named Beauty.
15) Stand by me
Author
Series
Family is forever volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Romantic Christian women's fiction by acclaimed author Pat Simmons explores faith and love. Kym Knicely thought her days as a caregiver were over. But once she starts falling for family man Chaz Banks, caregiver to his seven year-old autistic granddaughter, Kym will need to make some sacrifices to get the family she always wanted"--
16) Gilead
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowa preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition: He "preached men into the Civil War," then, at age fifty, became a chaplain in the Union Army, losing his right eye in battle. Reverend...
18) Grandpa's garden
Author
Series
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Billy learns about gardening from his grandfather. Includes gardening tips.
20) Grandpa Green
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A child explores the ordinary life of his extraordinary great-grandfather, as expressed in his topiary garden.