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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Anticipating a quiet summer at his grandmother's lake cabin when his family makes different plans, Adam befriends girl-next-door Alice, who proves to have a sense of humor and adventure when she accompanies him on a treasure hunt.
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1937, during the Depression, 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.
27) 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.
28) Halmoni's day
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jennifer, a Korean American, is worried that her grandmother, visiting from Korea, will embarrass her on her school's Grandparents' Day, but the event brings her understanding and acceptance.
29) The whales' song
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Enthralled by her grandmother's story of seeing and hearing whales singing in the sea long ago, Lilly hopes to see them herself and to hear their mysterious songs.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Raised by a great-grandmother and a bunch of beauty shop buddies, fourteen-year-old Abbey resolves to overcome her unhappy childhood and disillusionment with the mother who deserted her.
31) 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
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Tish Darling, the matriarch and protector of what's left of the family fortune, returns to Riptide, a decades-old beach house on Cape Cod, for her granddaughter's wedding where she reveals an old secret, kept with the best of intentions, that throws boththe wedding and the family off course.
36) My baba's garden
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A story about the special relationship between a child and his grandmother and the time they spend looking for worms for the garden.
37) 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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The mummy of King Tut's grandmother is the main attraction at the Fogville museum, but Echo the bat and his human friends, the Bat Pack, discover that at night she is rising from her sarcophagus--can they find a way to bring peace to this restless mummy?
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"To hear Beatrice Agnew tell it, she entered the world with her mouth tightly shut. Just because she finds out she's dying doesn't mean she can't keep it that way. If any of her children have questions about their daddy and the choices she made after he abandoned them, they'd best take it up with Jesus. There's no room in Granny B's house for regrets or hand-holding. Or so she thinks. Her granddaughter, Evelyn Lester, shows up on Beatrice's doorstep...