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"Life is meant to be savored, but that's not easy with no family, limited prospects and a past you'd rather not talk about. Still, Callie Smith doesn't know how to feel when she discovers she has a brother and a sister-- Malcolm, who grew up with affection, wealth and privilege, and Keira, a streetwise twelve-year-old. Callie doesn't love being alone, but at least it's safe. Despite her trepidation, she moves into the grand family home with her siblings...
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Las lentes fragmentadas es la cuarta y trepidante aventura de «Alcatraz contra los Bibliotecarios Malvados», la serie de aventuras fantásticas juvenil apta para todos los públicos más divertida y original.
¿Podrá Alcatraz salvar una ciudad sitiada?
Si la isla de Mokia cae, también podrían caer el resto de los Reinos Libres. Y entonces todo el mundo estaría bajo el dominio de los Bibliotecarios
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Merci Suárez 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 don't have a big house or a fancy boat, and they have to do extra community service to make up for their free tuition. So when bossy Edna Santos sets her sights on the new boy who happens to be...
44) Sway with me
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Arsalan Nizami has learned all he knows from his 100-year-old great-grandfather, but when Beenish Siraj asks him to be her partner in a dance she's been forbidden to perform at her sister's wedding, Arsalan's world opens up in more ways than he could have imagined"--
45) Grandad's pride
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Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"After Milly discovers a pride flag in Grandad's attic, this adorable pair are motivated by the past to start a pride parade in their small town. Activism and celebration go hand in hand as the town gathers to help build a world where everyone is proud to be themselves"--
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Meg Langslow mysteries volume 27
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"When Meg's grandmother Cordelia hosts a Renaissance Faire at her craft center, the whole family is put to work: Meg handles the blacksmithing, Michael and the boys will be performing, and no one misses the opportunity to dress up in full regalia. More exciting to Grandfather is the pair of rare falcons he discovers breeding at the fairgrounds. Concerned for their well-being amid all the activity, he appoints himself their protector. When one of the...
48) The lost cause
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Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"It's thirty years from now. We're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can't let go? For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast clean-energy projects are springing up everywhere. Disaster...
49) Life expectancy
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Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2004
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English
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Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. When Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks for the first and last time since his stroke, he says that there will be five dark days in the life of his grandson-each occurring at different times of his life. Rudy is all too ready to discount...
50) Grandpa's window
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Flyaway Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Daria comforts her grandpa during his final days and grieves for him after his death.
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Salamandra
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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In 1920s New York City, a young girl with a deformed foot recruits her new friends, a female pickpocket and two circus performers, to help recover an emerald from her grandfather's mansion in upstate New York after he loses his home to an unscrupulous tycoon.
52) Sweet memories
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Lectorum Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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While enjoying an icy fruit popsicle called a paleta, Abuelo tells his grandchild the story of the first paleta. Includes historical note.
53) Stay!
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Peachtree
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Ben thinks his dog, Buster, is the best in the world but his parents are not as sure, so when they go on vacation Buster must stay with Grampa who, guided by many notes from Ben and using his own dog-training methods, manages to get Buster under control--mostly.
54) Ice cream summer
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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A little boy writes a letter to his grandfather about all the reading and studying he is doing this summer--but all his activities revolve around ice cream.
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Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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A modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood in which Federico rides his bicycle to the market for Abuelo's groceries, then stands up to a hungry wolf. Includes a recipe for pico de gallo and glossary of Spanish terms.
56) Edgewood
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2022.
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English
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In an effort to find her missing grandfather, Emeline enters the forest of Edgewood where she discovers not only that the stories of the fabled Wood King and his mythical court are true, but that her Pa's life is in danger and only she can save him--along with a handsome and brooding tithe collector, a surly blacksmith, and a lost childhood friend.
57) Circus Mirandus
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Circus Mirandus volume 1
Publisher
LaGalera
Pub. Date
2016.
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Español
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When he realizes that his grandfather's stories of an enchanted circus are true, Micah Tuttle sets out to find the mysterious Circus Mirandus--and to use its magic to save his grandfather's life.
Ephraim, el abuelo de Micah, siempre le ha contado maravillosas historias sobre el Circus Mirandus, un circo mágico que había visitado de niño. Pero ahora Ephraim se está muriendo, y la terrible tía abuela Gertrudis se ocupará de Micah. Toda la magia...
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Ten-year-old Dottie learns to navigate the odd spaces between grieving and everyday living when her newly widowed grandfather comes to stay with her family.
The solution to every problem starts with a question-- and Dottie Bing is a champion question-asker. When grandma Ima dies and Dottie's grandpa Walter comes to stay, he brings the biggest problem Dottie has ever encountered: a broken heart. Are there any problems the right question can't solve?...
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