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Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Grandmothers from eight eastern African countries welcome you into their kitchens to share flavorful recipes and stories of family, love, and tradition in this transporting cookbook-meets-travelogue"--
"JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER • Grandmothers from eight eastern African countries welcome you into their kitchens to share flavorful recipes and stories of family, love, and tradition in this transporting cookbook-meets-travelogue. In this incredible...
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The Legends of Easter Treasury; Inspirational Stories of Faith and Hope contains three bestselling Easter stories that include The Legend of the Easter Egg, The Legend of the Easter Robin, and The Legend of the Sand Dollar.The Legend of the Easter Egg, written by Lori Walburg and illustrated by Richard Cowdrey, is a timeless tale that explores the meaning behind Easter eggs and the Easter story itself. This beautifully illustrated story of faith,...
Author
Series
Marisol McDonald volume 2
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Incorporated
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A unique, spunky, multiracial, bilingual girl plans a one-of-a-kind birthday party and hopes her abuelita (grandma) will be able to come from Peru to join the festivities. Includes an author's note and glossaries"--
Author
Series
Winnie Zeng volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
When a girl awakens the stuff of legends from an old family recipe, she must embrace her extraordinary heritage to save the world. Winnie Zeng has two goals: survive her first year of middle school and outdo her stuck-up archnemesis, David Zuo. It won’t be easy, since, according to her older sister, middle school is the pits. Luckily, Winnie studied middle school survival tactics in comic books and anime, and nothing will stop her from being the...
648) The lucky stone
Author
Publisher
Dell Pub. Company
Pub. Date
[1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A lucky stone provides good fortune for its various owners.
There is nothing Tee enjoys more than sitting out on the porch with her great-greatmother, listening to the fascinating stories about the lucky stone. Shiny and black as night, it brought good fortune to each of its owners for over one hundred years. First it helped Mandy, a runaway slave, win her freedom. Then it saved Vashti from death by lightning at a prayer meeting. And it even saved...
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Juanito accompanies his grandmother to a flea market in southern California, where he helps her and the other vendors and where they enjoy seeing old friends from their Mexican-American community.
650) Call me Floy
Author
Publisher
Yosemite Conservancy
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Floy Hutchings, nearly twelve, struggles against the expectations of 1876 society as she fights to protect her beloved Yosemite Valley and dreams of climbing Half Dome. Includes tips for visiting wild areas and historical note.
651) Home away from home
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Mia is spending her summer with her grandmother in a small Maine town, expecting it to be an oasis of stability in her changing life, but there is a new know-it-all boy next door, and soon she finds herself competing with Cayman in identifying an injuredbird of prey--and pretty much everything else.
From Newbery Honor Winner Cynthia Lord, a brilliant story about how to find home when everything around us is changing. Mia and her mom visit Grandma...
652) Nana and Abuela
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
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Description
"As Luna and her grandmothers embark on a fun evening of food and stories and laughter, a language kerfuffle threatens to spoil their time together. Luna lives with her two grown-ups in a small home next to a river. She has "two pets, two pillows on her bed, and two languages in her head." Luna also has two grandmothers: Nana and Abuela. They are her two favorite people, and they are very different from each other. When her grown-ups are away, Nana...
653) Hattie on her way
Author
Series
Hill Hawk Hattie volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the late 1800s, eleven-year-old Hattie, still grieving over the death of her mother and lonely for her absent father, moves in with her grandmother in the city of Kingston, New York, to be educated and learn about polite society, and, while there, discovers the fate of her missing grandfather.
Author
Series
Tante Lulu novels volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Bayou's baddest bad boy is back! Joining the Navy was the second best thing that ever happened to Justin "Cage" LeBlanc, the rebel son of a no-account convict. The first was Emelie Gaudet, the love of his life ... until he was forced to leave town and swore there would be snow on the bayou before he ever returned. Now, only his mortally-ill grandma can bring the injured Navy SEAL back to Terrebone Parrish, where he must face his past -- and Emelie,...
Author
Publisher
Yellow Jacket
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
While helping her granny Collette evacuate to a makeshift shelter in Brooklyn during Superstorm Sandy, Lily uncovers secrets of her grandmother's past as a member of the French Resistance during WWII. Queens, 2012. Hurricane Sandy is flooding New York City, and Lily is at a nursing home with her grandmother, Collette. Lily visits Collette often, as she is beginning to lose her memories. When the National Guard shows up to evacuate the building and...
Author
Publisher
Crocodile Books, USA, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Unhappy with her name, a little girl tries to find the perfect name, but with help from Gogo, her grandmother, Kantiga learns about her identity and where she is from.
"This endearing picture book from South Africa follows the story of a little girl who, with help from her grandmother, explores her identity and learns to appreciate her name. “There was once a beautiful little girl with a heart as big as her name, Kantiga. But Kantiga did not like...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by her own family's experiences in Ukraine before, during and after World War II, the author reimagines their story, following the life and experiences of 16-year-old Katya, beginning in 1929 Kyiv and then, seventy years later, a young widow uncovers long-hidden family secrets about their past. In the 1930s, Stalin's activists marched through the Soviet Union, espousing the greatness of collective farming. It was the first step in creating...
659) 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...
660) Sauerkraut
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A new quirky-funny book from the author of Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer about a boy whose plans for the summer go sideways when the ghost of his great-great-grandmother demands his attention. HD Schenk is a maker--an inventor, a builder of things. He wants to show everyone what he can do, and his plan is to build his own computer and enter it in the county fair. To earn money for the parts, HD has promised to clean out his uncle's...
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