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Language
English
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"Nothing brings an estranged family together like a murder next door. High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of: her keen intelligence, impeccable taste, and the L.A. real estate empire she's built. But when she finds herself trapped 300 miles north of the city, convalescing in a sleepy coastal town with her adult daughter Beth and teenage granddaughter Jack, Lana is stuck counting otters instead of square footage - and hoping...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Newbery honor book : 2004
On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer.
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Language
English
Description
1937. Estranged sisters Clara and Madeleine Sommers agree to fulfill their grandmother's last wish: travel across Europe together and deliver three letters, in which Violet will say goodbye to those she hasn't seen since traveling to Europe herself forty years earlier. Clara sees the trip as an inconvenient detour before her wedding to millionaire Charles Hancock, but also a chance to embrace her love of art. Budding journalist Madeleine relishes...
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Series
Publisher
Bethany House/Literary Express
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A girl on the Prairies is torn between loyalty to her parents and to a friend. Virginia is very much taken by adventurous Jenny, but her parents consider Jenny a bad influence and wish she would end the friendship. Virginia keeps stalling and is dragged into trouble by Jenny.
10) Thunder cake
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
When eighty-five-year-old Miriam Caravasios slips through the ice to her death, Delphine, a frightened and insecure young woman who adored her grandmother, falls under scrutiny when it is revealed that Miriam's will cut off her children, leaving her almost everything and emboldening her to find the truth.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
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"--
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Series
Publisher
Abingdon Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A grandmothers last wish is to communicate Gods love through an Irish chain quilt Taryn McKenna believes shes easy to forget. After being abandoned by her parents and left behind when her high school sweetheart joined the army, she vowed to never love again. She threw herself into her love for the outdoors and the pursuit of a college degree-something no one else in her family had ever accomplished. Her goal as a young teacher in the hills of North...
14) Love, Aubrey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While living with her Gram in Vermont, eleven-year-old Aubrey writes letters as a way of dealing with losing her father and sister in a car accident, and then being abandoned by her grief-stricken mother.
15) What's heaven?
Author
Publisher
Golden Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After her great-grandmother's death, a young girl learns about heaven by asking her mother all kinds of questions.
16) Nana in the city
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy is frightened by how busy and noisy the city is when he goes there to visit his Nana, but she makes him a fancy red cape that keeps him from being scared as she shows him how wonderful a place it is.
17) River's end
Author
Series
Publisher
Abingdon Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When Anna Larson's granddaughter Sarah finds her independence, she travels away from all that is familiar, but when she returns to Shining Waters, three generations of family heartbreak and disappointments converge and Sarah finds God right in the center of it all
19) Abuela's weave
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Esperanza learns the art of weaving Guatemalan tapestries from her grandmother. Together they make something very special and refuse to show it to anyone until market day.