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61) Beneath
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Finn is in a bad mood, so his grandfather takes him on a walk in the forest, and tells him about all the things that are beneath the surface of plants and animals--and even people.
62) Like so
Author
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Just as the sun loves the day and the moon loves the waves, a grandmother shows how her family's love is natural and connected to the world around them.
63) Ice cream summer
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In this heartwarming story of love, family and baked goods, bakery owner Hope McKenna-Smith, the divorced mother of a surly preteen girl, is summoned by her aging grandmother who, ready to reveal the secret she has kept for 70 years, sends her on a journey across the world that will forever change her life.
Author
Publisher
Cuento de Luz
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
Español
Description
My Grandpa is a bit confused: he puts the chicken in the washing machine, he gets towels mixed up with napkins, gloves mixed up with socks, and he's always forgetting my name! To stop things from getting worse, he's come to live at our house. I'm glad he's with us, although I keep getting into trouble trying to help him. I'd do anything to stop my grandpa from forgetting things. Anything. What about you? What would you do for the people you love?...
67) As brave as you
Author
Language
English
Description
"When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires--literally"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
One devoted modern girl + a meddlesome, traditional grandmother = a heartwarming multicultural romantic comedy about finding love where you least expect it. Raina Anand may have finally given in to family pressure and agreed to let her grandmother play matchmaker, but that doesn't mean she has to like it--or that she has to play by the rules. Nani always took Raina's side when she tried to push past the traditional expectations of their tight-knit...
71) The bird house
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Interweaving diaries penned forty years apart, The Bird House blends the fierce voice of a woman struggling against dementia to bond with her only grandchild, with her point of view as a young wife and mother. We witness the secrets of Ann Biddle's family through every lens: from the clarity of the rearview mirror, through the haze of Alzheimer's, and as a young housewife in 1960s suburbia grappling with illness, death, heartbreak and tragedy.
72) El rayo ninja
Author
Series
Ninja kid volume 3
Publisher
Molino
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Ahora que es un ninja, Nelson está impaciente por participar en la competición de atletismo. Por primera vez en su vida, no será el rarito: ¡lo hará GENIAL! Pero justo cuando más necesita sus habilidades, un rayo se las intercambia por las de su abuela. Así que más le vale solucionar este problemilla si quiere hacer un buen papel en la carrera.
Nelson can't wait for the athletics carnival now that he's a NINJA! For the first time ever, he...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Before mommy blogs were even invented, Anna Quindlen became a go-to writer on the joys and challenges of motherhood in her nationally syndicated column. Now she's taking the next step and going full Nana in the pages of this lively and moving book about her grandchildren, her children, and her new and remarkable role"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle"--
Living with his grandparents and sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his mother's addictions and his grandmother's cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip...
75) Love, Lah Lah
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A girl and her grandpa enjoy Carnival together"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Discover the true meaning of being brave in this tender and whimsical picture book from Daniel Bernstrom (One Day in the Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus Tree) and Shane Evans (Chocolate Me!) that follows a grandfather and grandson who travel through time in a beloved 1952 Ford." --
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When his grandfather, who makes masala chai each morning for the family, sprains his ankle, impatient Aarav decides to make the chai himself, but when his rushing causes him to miss some crucial steps, he must learn to slow down to get the recipe right.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"1951. Esther Durrant, a young mother, is committed to an isolated mental asylum by her husband. Run by a pioneering psychiatrist, the hospital is at first Esther's prison but soon surprisingly becomes her refuge. 2018. Free-spirited marine scientist Rachel Parker embarks on a research posting in the Isles of Scilly, off the Cornish coast. When a violent storm forces her to take shelter on a far-flung island, she discovers a collection of hidden love...
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