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Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
547 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Called home to care for her grandmother after a fall, Jess, a journalist, discovers a book chronicling the police investigation into an old unsolved murder that has a shocking connection to her family.
Author
Series
Sisters Grimm volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
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...
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Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
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"Good things happen at the lake. That's what Alice's grandmother says, and it's true. Alice spent just one summer at a cottage with Nan when she was seventeen--it's where she took that photo, the one of three grinning teenagers in a yellow speedboat, the image that changed her life. Now Alice lives behind a lens. As a photographer, she's most comfortable on the sidelines, letting other people shine. Lately, though, she's been itching for something...
Author
Language
English
Description
Fans of fractured fairy tales will be delighted to discover the fantasy, mystery, adventure, and humor in the beloved New York Times bestselling Sisters Grimm series by Michael Buckley, now with new cover art. As featured on NBC's The Today Show, the nine wildly popular books are favorites around the world. They were among the first books to bring a distinctly girl-power spin to fairy tales—a spin taken up by hit movies and
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Mia's Abuela comes to live with Mia and her family, she helps her learn English while Mia learns Spanish, both with the help of a parrot named Mango.
7) Thunder cake
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms.
8) Mind games
Author
Language
English
Description
"As they do each June, the Foxes have driven the winding roads of Appalachia to drop off their children for a two-week stay at their grandmother's. Here, twelve-year-old Thea can run free and breathe in the smells of pine and fresh bread and Grammie's handmade candles. But as her parents head back to suburban Virginia, they have no idea they're about to cross paths with a ticking time bomb. Back in Kentucky, Thea and her grandmother Lucy both awaken...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A lonely bookstore clerk discovers a hidden letter that reveals her grandmother's struggles with singlehood, a whirlwind affair during World War II, and the fateful choices that shaped decades of their family life.
10) What is love?
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A boy sets out to find someone to answer a question that he asks his grandmother, and eventually his quest leads him back home.
12) Forever my own
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Series
Language
English
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"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...
13) Grama's hug
Author
Publisher
Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
May and her grandmother are a team, especially in anything related to science and flight, but when May becomes the first child astronaut, Grama fears she will leave Earth without a goodbye hug.
Author
Series
Junie B. Jones volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lucille invites Junie B. and her friend Grace to sleep over at her very rich nanna's house, where everything is beautiful, expensive, and breakable.
Author
Publisher
Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2025.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 327 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Elle returns home to care for her grandmother with Alzheimer's, she's forced into a fake relationship with the live-in nurse, Adam, but as tensions spark, pretending to be in love becomes harder than she expected.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
This love letter from a young child to a grandparent takes readers through the seasons as a grandmother and grandchild delight in each other's company, no matter the weather or whatever they do.
17) Nana in the city
Author
Series
Nana in the City volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A boy visits his nana at her new home in the city. The city is busy and loud and filled with scary things. But a special gift from Nana makes the boy feel brave and transforms the city into something... extraordinary.
Author
Language
English
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In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. It's a decision that will alter her destiny...and it's a lie that will remain buried until the next century. Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz. Now fifteen and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of Nazi soldiers at the Polish border,...