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Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed author Norton Juster is the recipient of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Honors Award for The Hello, Goodbye Window. He is also a proud grandfather who pens a charming tale about a young child's imagination. A little girl visits Nanna and Poppy's house. Their kitchen window looks quite ordinary, but it's so much more!
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Enjoying an active but lonely rural life, seventy-year-old Percy allows a progressive preschool to move into his barn and transform his quiet home into a lively, youthful community that compels him to reexamine the choices he made after his wife's death.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"For as long as Ryanna Stuart can remember, her summers have been spent with her father and his new wife. Just the three of them, structured, planned, quiet. But this summer is different. This summer, she's received a letter from her grandparents-grandparents neither she nor her dad have spoken to since her mom's death-inviting her to stay with them at an old summer camp in the Poconos. Ryanna accepts. She wants to learn about her mom. She wants to...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-olds Cooper Goodman and Justice and Liberty Gordon investigate the eccentric residents of Windy Bottom, Georgia, after the remains of Coop's long-missing grandmother are uncovered and his Gramps is the prime suspect.
6) Let him go
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Following the loss of their son, retired sheriff George Blackledge and his wife Margaret leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas, headed by matriarch Blanche Weboy. When they discover the Weboys have no intention of letting the child go, George and Margaret are left with no choice but to fight for their family.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meg is relaxing in the hammock, taste-testing Michael's latest batch of Arnold Palmers and watching the hummingbirds at their feeders when her hopes for a relaxing early summer morning are dashed.
First her father recruits her to help him install a new batch of bees in the hive in her backyard. Then Mayor Shiffley recruits her to placate the NIMBYs (Not in my backyard), as she calls them – a group of newcomers to Caerphilly who have built
10) Nora's ark
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During the Vermont flood of 1927, a girl and her grandparents share their new hilltop house with neighbors and animals.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Emma London never thought she had anything in common with her grandmother Genevieve London. The regal old woman came from wealthy and bluest-blood New England stock, but that didn't protect her from life's cruelest blows: the disappearance of Genevieve's young son, followed by the premature death of her husband. But Genevieve rose from those ashes of grief and built a fashion empire that was respected the world over, even when it meant neglecting...
Author
Series
First cousin shenanigans volume 1
Publisher
Electric Moon Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Nine first cousins go to their grandparent's farm for the last two weeks before school starts. They have always been good friends and are excited to spend time together.
Author
Series
Baxter Family volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Decades ago, John and Elizabeth Baxter lived a love story that is still playing out in the lives of their adult children and grandchildren. But few of them know the exact details of that story or the heartbreak that brought the two together. Now in high school, Ashley Baxter Blake's oldest son, Cole, must write a family history paper for a freshman English class. He decides to interview his grandfather about that long ago love story. John is hesitant,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain Publishing
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the end of the school year, Kendra and her brother, Seth, find themselves racing back to Fablehaven, a refuge for mythical and magical creatures where their grandfather is caretaker. The Society of the Evening Star, an ancient organization determined to infiltrate the preserve and steal a hidden artifact of great power, is storming the gates.
20) The visit
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When Becca and Tyler are sent to their grandparents' secluded Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong stay, they quickly discover something is not right with the elderly couple. Faced with strange rules and increasingly frightening behavior, the children soon realize it will take all their wits to make it home alive.