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Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
From two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo comes a story of discovering who you are--and deciding who you want to be. When Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana isn't overly worried. After all, Granny has many middle-of-the-night ideas. But this time, things are different. This time, Granny intends for them never to...
Author
Series
Fourteenth goldfish volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve year old Jack's grandpa lives in a rest home and often mistakes Jack for his World War II squadron commander, but when grandpa wants to escape his boring situation, Jack has to decide how he will help him.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
©2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Secretly providing for himself and a beloved grandfather who is succumbing to dementia, young Arlo is placed in the care of a social worker and runs away to find and connect with his only other family member.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Robbie is determined to stay out of trouble so that she does not worry her grandfather whose memory is failing and to make sure that she and her grandfather stay together as he is the only family she has left.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Publisher
Running Press Kids
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Shayne Whittaker has always spent summers on the Maine coast, visiting her grandmother Bea and playing with her BFF Poppy. Both Shayne and Bea are collectors, in their own ways: Shayne revels in golden memories of searching for sea glass and weaving friendship bracelets with Poppy, while Bea scours flea markets for valuable finds, much of which she adds to a growing pile in her house that Shayne jokingly calls Junk Mountain. This summer,...
Author
Publisher
Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Fifth-grader Jillian will do just about anything to blend in, including staying quiet even when she has the right answer. After she loses a classroom competition because she won't speak up, she sets her mind on winning her school's biggest competition. But breaking out of her shell is easier said than done, and Jillian has only a month to keep her promise to her grandmother and prove to herself that she can speak up and show everyone her true self"--...
9) First apple
Author
Publisher
Distributed by St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A young girl living in a Chinese village in the 1940s tries to find a way to buy an apple, the fruit of rich people, to share with her grandmother.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Thoughtful, strong-willed sixth-grader Merci Suarez navigates difficult changes with friends, family, and everyone in between in a resonant new novel from Meg Medina. Merci Suarez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older brother, Roli, are scholarship students. They dont have a big house or a fancy...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Explores the vital ties between fathers and sons, sharing tales of a boy who seeks to understand the wishes of his father's ghost and a boy who makes surprising discoveries while camping with the eccentric grandfather he just met.
12) The Egypt game
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
A group of children, entranced with the study of Egypt, play their own Egypt game, are visited by a secret oracle, become involved in a murder, and befriend the Professor before they move on to new interests, such as Gypsies.
13) Heidi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Inside Out and Back Again and Amina’s Voice comes a breathtaking story of family, hope, and survival from Ellen Oh, cofounder of We Need Diverse Books. When Junie Kim is faced with middle school racism, she learns of her grandparents’ extraordinary strength and finds her voice. Inspired by her mother’s real-life experiences during the Korean War, Oh’s characters are real and riveting. “Both unique and universal, timely and timeless.”...
15) Hope Springs
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old crafter Jubilee Johnson's assumptions about her vagabond life, her estranged mother, and her idol, television's perfect crafter Arletta Paisley, start to change after Jubi and her grandmother move to a small Texas town.
16) Lucky strike
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Nathaniel Harlow lives with his grandfather in a trailer park in Franklin County, Florida, and he has always been unlucky--but when he is struck by lightning on his eleventh birthday and survives, it seems like his luck starts to change.
Author
Publisher
ScholasticPress
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When her blind dog slips his collar, twelve-year old Lily meets Salma Santiago, a young Hispanic girl whose migrant family are in Maine for the blueberry-picking season, and, based partly on their mutual love of dogs, the two forge a friendship while painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather--but as the Blueberry Queen pageant approaches Lily and Selma are confronted with some of the hard truths of prejudice and migrant life.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Leo's grandfather died a year ago, and ever since Leo has been tasked with tracking his grandmother down whenever she wanders away from their home in Allentown, Pennsylvania--but when she abruptly decides to take the trip to Utah that her husband was planning, Leo finds himself on the way to visit dinosaurs, in an old Buick with his grandmother, his seventeen-year-old cousin Abby, and Abby's old, smelly Golden retriever, Kermit, without telling his...
19) Charlie's raven
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2004] ©2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Charlie Carlisle's grandfather is illustrations Charlie's friend, Singing Bird, a Teton Sioux, tells him that ravens have curing powers, so Charlie steals a baby bird from its nest. Granddad, a retired naturalist, encourages Charlie to record his observations of the bird and study the effect it has on humans. Charlie just hopes that the raven will make Granddad well.
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Feeling most alive when he's playing the blues with his grandfather, Clayton is devastated when his grandfather dies and his mother forbids him from playing music, losses that compel him to run away and join bluesmen on the road.
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