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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Grandpa finds a mysterious compass washed up on the seashore, Phantom Finders Abby and Theo review museum artifacts and brave a raging storm to discover whom it belonged to and what it means for their town, Murky Creek.
284) Road to Tater Hill
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
At her grandparents' North Carolina mountain home during the summer of 1963, eleven-year-old Annie Winters, grief-stricken by the death of her newborn sister and isolated by her mother's deepening depression, finds comfort in holding an oblong stone "rock baby" and in the friendship of a neighbor boy and a reclusive mountain woman with a devastating secret.
285) You don't live here
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After the sudden death of her mother, Sasha moves in with her grandparents and realizes new truths about herself"--
Southern California. With her mother now dead and father out of the picture, Sasha Bloom moves in with her estranged grandparents. Sasha has no idea who she is anymore. Luckily, her grandparents are certain they know who she should be: A lawyer in the making. Ten pounds skinnier. In a socially advantageous relationship with a boy from...
286) Goodnight Ganesha
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"As nighttime falls over the city, two children visiting their grandparents in India find there's so much fun to be had! Whether it's listening to epic stories or observing rituals in the puja room, there are many moments that make this time together special"--Book jacket flap.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
,2012.
Physical Desc
46 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sent to the countryside to spend the summer with her grandparents, Rebecca misses her parents and her germ best friend, Ernest, but makes friends with a dog named Missile and spends time with her grandfather, known as 'Grandpa Bug'" -- from vendor record.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"With their parents off on an urgent molar pickup, tooth fairy sisters April and Esme are ready for a cozy overnight at Grandma and Grandpa's teapot house by the airport fence. But when a tooth-collecting job comes in on Grandma's phone-- a small girl in a red coat, arriving from Ghana, with a baby tooth in her pocket-- the two wonder: could this be a job for April and Esme?"--Jacket.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Shares the story of the author's relationship with her remarkable grandmother, describing the latter's youth in the Jim Crow South, devotion to black causes, and management of her own business until age one hundred.
Cary journeys through stories of her time with her Nana Jackson, and of five generations of their African American family. Nana was a fierce, stubborn, and independent woman, who managed a business until she was 100. She had an impulse...
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 zippered plastic bag : clear with red handles ; 34 x 33 x 14 cm + 5 books, 1 zippered Activity Pouch (2 small journals, cardstock, scrapbooking papers, stickers, ribbons), 1 zippered Supply Pouch (1 gluestick, 2 scrapbooking scissors, 13 Crayola ultra-clean washable markers, 12 Crayola colored pencils), 1 Family Materials guide, 1 Book Discussions guide.
Language
English
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293) A plan for Pops
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this illustrated picture book, a child helps their grandparents deal with a difficult change in abilities."--
294) Curveball
Author
Series
The contract (Derek Jeter) volume 5
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
While spending the summer with his extended family in New Jersey, Derek finds a team he can play baseball with and earns money to take his best friend to a Yankees game.
296) Missing in action
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Competitive climber Cara Jenkins feels most at home high off the ground, clinging to a rock wall by her fingertips. She's enjoyed a roaming life with her mountaineering parents, making the natural world her jungle gym, the writings of Annie Dillard and Henry David Thoreau her textbooks. But when tragedy strikes on an Ecuadorian mountaintop, Cara's nomadic lifestyle comes to an abrupt halt. Starting over at her grandparents' home in suburban Detroit,...
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