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Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back where his story began, in Florida. Except now Miss Peregrine, Emma, and their peculiar friends are with him, and doing their best to blend in. But carefree days of beach visits and normalling lessons are soon interrupted by a discovery--a subterranean bunker that belonged to Jacobs grandfather, Abe. Clues to Abes double-life as a peculiar operative...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Its a cold January in the Chesapeake Bay area, but Cool Down Café manager Val Deniston has plenty to sweat overlike catering a book club event, testing recipes for her Granddads cookbook, and catching the author of a deadly tale of murder. . .The last thing Val needs in her life is an unsolved murder, especially when the victim, an actor famed for impersonating Edgar Allan Poe, happens to be dressed exactly like her Granddad. To keep an eye on Granddad,...
5) Quiet
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Everything is in such a hurry, busy as busy can be. The birds are flying so fast, the dragonfly is zooming over the watereven the trees are waving their leaves. So what if we sit here, you next to meand we can just be?
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Calvin Sidey is a cowboy of the old-school, no-guff sort--steely, hardened, with his own personal code. It's the 1960s, and he's living off the grid in a stifling trailer on the prairie when his adult son, Bill, seeks his help. A mostly absentee father, and a virtual no-show as a grandfather, Calvin nevertheless reluctantly agrees to stay with his grandchildren for a week. He decamps for his son's dark and musty basement, to the small town where...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dozing off while contemplating Grandpa's unusual vacation, Kate dreams about Chewandswallow, where it snows popcorn and rains sandwiches and the fate of falling food intrigues her.
9) A day's work
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Francisco, a young Mexican American boy, tries to help his grandfather find work, he discovers that even though the old man cannot speak English, he has something even more valuable to teach Francisco.
10) Drawn together
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A boy and his grandfather cross a language and cultural barrier using their shared love of art, storytelling, and fantasy.
11) Grandpa's noises
Author
Publisher
EK Books, an imprint of Exisle Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Children love laughing about body noises. In Grandpa's Noises, a range of sounds and words coming from body and mouth are explained in a warm and funny intergenerational romp. Children look at life with open, honest eyes but sometimes it takes a bit of thinking and code-breaking to work out what's really going on. Fortunately, for this particular grandchild, while Grandpa's noises might be a mystery to many, he knows just what they mean! For example,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Gus despairs of coming up with something interesting and impressive for his second-grade class's show-and-tell, until he gets a great idea while visiting Grandpa.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Together Pa and Jelly Bean build a sidewalk pantry right next to their sidewalk library, and as they get more visitors, Jelly Bean comes up with the idea to combine the books and food; so neighbors feel invited to take a meal and a good book.
"A kind and generous grandparent-grandchild duo nourish their neighborhood in this new picture book from critically acclaimed author Toni Buzzeo Pa and his grandchild, Jelly Bean, have a sidewalk library filled...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
"After picking up and leaving everything behind in California, eighteen-year-old Marin, with the help of her former friend, must confront her grief and the truths that caused her to flee her home"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Formats
Description
There are a million things that Halle Levitt likes about her online best friend, Nash. He’s an incredibly talented graphic novelist. He loves books almost as much as she does. And she never has to deal with the awkwardness of seeing him in real life. They can talk about anything. Except who she really is. Because online, Halle isn’t Halle—she’s Kels, the enigmatically cool creator of One True Pastry, a YA book blog that pairs epic custom cupcakes...
19) Bad grandpa
Publisher
Paramount Studio
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Eighty-six-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his eight-year-old grandson Billy. The duo will encounter male strippers, disgruntled child beauty pageant contestants, funeral home mourners, biker bar patrons, and a whole lot of unsuspecting citizens. Real people in unreal situations, making for one really messed up comedy.
20) Indian shoes
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Together with Grampa, Ray Halfmoon, a Seminole-Cherokee boy, finds creative and amusing solutions to life's challenges.
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