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Author
Publisher
FaithWords
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
As Mona and Ken Sorenson approach their well-planned retirement, Ken wonders if he can abandon everything he has worked to achieve at work, just as their son looks to them to care for his two young children while he is deployed in Afghanistan.
Author
Series
Fablehaven volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Kendra and Seth return to Fablehaven, they discover that Grandpa Sorenson has asked three specialists to protect the property from the Society of the Evening Star, a group determined to steal an artifact of great power from the preserve.
Author
Series
Fablehaven volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an effort to stop the Sphinx from opening the demon prison Zzyxx, Kendra, Seth, and the Knights of the Dawn race to find the exotic artifacts and keep them out of the Sphinx's control.
Author
Series
Fablehaven volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seth attempts to halt a plague that is turning Fablehaven's beings of light into creatures of darkness, while his sister Kendra and the Knights of the Dawn attempt to retrieve an artifact before the Society of the Evening Star.
5) Fablehaven
Author
Series
Fablehaven volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When Kendra and Seth go to stay at their grandparents' estate, they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and that a battle between good and evil is looming.
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
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
166 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes how, after their adult daughter's sudden death, the author and his wife moved in with their son-in-law and three grandchildren, quickly becoming reaccustomed to the world of small children and helping the family grieve and get on with life.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
388 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her estranged grandparents invite her to stay with them in the Poconos for the summer, Ryanna meets many relatives on her late mom's side of the family and discovers a whole new side of herself--and a place where she really belongs.
10) Walk two moons
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Winner of Newbery Award, 1995. 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.
11) I feel safe
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A young girl is frightened by a thunderstorm, but her parents and grandparents help her to feel safe until the thunder passes--even after the lights go out.
12) Clean getaway
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"For the life of him, William "Scoob" Lamar can't seem to stay out of trouble--and now the run-ins at school have led to lockdown at home. So when G'ma, Scoob's favorite person on Earth, asks him to go on an impromptu road trip, he's in the RV faster than he can say FREEDOM. With G'ma's old maps and a strange pamphlet called the 'Travelers' Green Book' at their side, the pair takes off on a journey down G'ma's memory lane. But adventure quickly turns...
13) As brave as you
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When Genie and his older brother spend their summer in the country with their grandparents, he learns a secret about his grandfather and what it means to be brave.