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401) Broken strings
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 2002. In the aftermath of the twin towers -- and the death of her beloved grandmother -- Shirli Berman is intent on moving forward. The best singer in her junior high, she auditions for the lead role in Fiddler on the Roof, but is crushed to learn that she's been given the part of the old Jewish mother in the musical rather than the coveted part of the sister. But there is an upside: her "husband" is none other than Ben Morgan, the cutest and...
403) Two at the zoo
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A grandfather and grandchild go to the zoo, where they count animals from one to ten.
404) The happy hedgehog
Author
Publisher
North-South Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mikko the hedgehog is perfectly content living in his garden until Grandfather Tarek suggests that he should accomplish something important in order to be happy like the other animals.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Teased for his fair coloring, eleven-year-old Jimmy McClean travels with his maternal grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, to learn about his Lakota heritage while visiting places significant in the life of Crazy Horse, the nineteenth-century Lakota leader and warrior, in a tale that weaves the past with the present. Includes historical note and glossary.
406) 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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Second-grader Gus wants a store-bought Halloween costume to wear to school, but because he knows his parents do not believe in buying costumes, he turns to his grandfather for help.
408) Grandaddy's place
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At first Janetta does not like Grandaddy, his farm, or his animals--but they like her, and as she gets used to them, she likes them too.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Roy G. Biv, a leprechaun, appears and asks Colleen's help in saving the St. Patrick's Day parade, she offers items of different colors to rebuild his lost rainbow, but is reluctant to part with a special gift from her grandfather.
410) White owl, barn owl
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
411) Life expectancy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dying man's clairvoyant prophesies about his grandson, Jimmy Tock, reveal five terrifying and horrific events, occuring on five different days at different periods in his life, that will turn the young man's world upside down
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From the bestselling illustrator of Strictly No Elephants comes a sweetly personal and stunningly illustrated picture book about a young girl who grows closer to her grandfather by tending to the garden with him. When I am as small as a sprout, Grandfather’s garden feels big. A young girl observes the bugs and blooms and the rich smell of the soil of her grandfather’s garden. Her grandfather hums as he waters his treasured plants. And when...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Seeking consolation [after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster of 2011], Mockett is guided by a colorful cast of Zen priests and ordinary Japanese who perform rituals that disturb, haunt, and finally uplift her. Her journey leads her into the radiation zone in an intricate white hazmat suit; to Eiheiji, a school for Zen Buddhist monks; on a visit to a Crab Lady and Fuzzy-Headed Priests temple on Mount Doom; and into the 'thick dark'...
414) Boundaries
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A single mother and her teenage son have to drive her estranged criminally-inclined father from Texas to California after he has been kicked out of his retirement home.
416) Mexikid en español
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Entre los mejores libros del 2023, de acuerdo a más de una decena de medios de prensa e instituciones de Estados Unidos. Mexikid es uno de los mejores títulos del año según Booklist, Kirkus, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly,NPR.org, New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, The New York Times, entre otros Pedro/Peter Martín es un Mexikid, o un niño que nació en Estados Unidos de padres mexicanos: un niño que no pertenece...
417) My two grandads
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Aston's granddad Harry plays the trumpet in a brass band, while Grandad Roy plays the steel drum in a steel band. But only one band can play at Aston's summer fair at school ... Which band should Aston choose? Or can he find a way to bring everyone together?"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A sensitive portrayal of loss and grief, told through a grandchild's inheritance of a stopwatch that belonged to Grampa. In this touching debut picture book about the loss of a beloved grandfather, author Loretta Garbutt explores the stages of grief with a delicate hand. The story opens with our narrator inheriting a stopwatch. For the grandchild, the object carries many cherished memories. "Grampa used to time everything. He timed me when I ran...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Appleseed
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A girl and her grandfather enjoy each other's company as they go on an outdoor adventure together.
A joyful ode to the special bond between grandfathers and their grandchildren, from acclaimed creators Shelly Becker and Dan Yaccarino One, two, Grandpa loves you. Three, four, rush to the door. Five, six, camping trip. Seven, eight, best travel mate. A girl and her grandfather strike out on an outdoor adventure in this heartfelt rhyming picture book...
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