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Sterling, Michelle

Summary: Four starred reviews! In an evocative picture book brimming with the scents, tastes, and traditions that define a young girl's summer with her grandmother, debut author Michelle Sterling and illustrator Aaron Asis come together to celebrate the gentle bonds of familial love that span oceans and generations. For one young girl, summer is the season of no school, of days spent at the pool, and of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021

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Sterling, Michelle

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Summary: "For one young girl, summer is the season of no school, of days spent at the pool, and of picking golden limes off the trees. But summer doesn't start until her lola--her grandmother from the Philippines--comes for her annual visit. When Lola visits, the whole family gathers to cook and eat and share in their happiness of another season spent together"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STE

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STE

Ferneyhough, Liza

Summary: "Nina's visits to her two faraway grandmothers-one in Malaysia and one in England-unfold side-by-side, featuring similarities and differences between the two"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FER

Cao, Wenxuan

Summary: Ah Mei has always been close to her French grandmother, Nainai, and is proud to look like her. But in their home city of Shanghai, many people are suspicious of their European heritage and looks. Politics and war make 1960s Shanghai a difficult place to grow up, especially when the family silk business is given over to the government and they are left with their beloved home and little else. Ah...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CAO

Dumond-Desir, Samanka

Summary: Liline, a young Haitian American girl, and her cat Pepper learn a little about Grann's homeland of Haiti while getting ready for the first day of kindergarten.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Paw Prints Publishing 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN DUM

Dumond-Desir, Samanka

Summary: When she and her family find a cat and, after no luck finding its owner, decide to keep her, Haitian American kindergartener Liline must come up with the perfect name.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Paw Prints Publishing 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN DUM

Burch, Ciera

Summary: Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year soaking up the sun with her best friend on the Jersey Shore. Instead she finds herself in Coldwater, Maryland, a small town with a dark and complicated past where her estranged grandmother lives--someone she knows only two things about: her name and the fact that she left Jericka's mother and uncle when they were children. But...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC BUR

Sylvester, Natalia

Summary: "When Abuela comes to visit from Peru, she brings a suitcase full of treasures and her granddaughter learns that home is not just a place, but the love between family no matter the distance"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SYL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SYL

Law, Ingrid

Summary: "Gypsy Beaumont's magical savvy switches to its opposite when she learns that her mean and decidedly non-magical grandma has Alzheimer's and is going to move in with her family"--

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD LAW

De Regil, Tania

Summary: At Grandma's house, where Julia is staying without her parents for the first time, the breeze is sweet like jasmine. Mornings begin with sugared bread, and the most magnificent hot chocolate cures all homesickness. There's something about this place and about Grandma. Like how she can tell when Julia has been quietly picking limes from the garden. Or that she can see the future--and knows when...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022

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Higuera, Donna Barba

Summary: A young girl wishes her family could be more like her friends' families and subconsciously blames her abuela and her yellow handkerchief, but she slowly grows to appreciate and love the language and culture the handkerchief represents.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HIG

Wellins, Candy

Summary: George loves spending Saturdays with his grandmother, Stella. One day, Stella is gone and George is ready to cancel Saturdays--until a new addition to the family arrives and George finds a way to honor the memories of his beloved grandmother.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WEL

Bingham, Winsome

Summary: Granny teaches her young grandson how to cook the family meal, in this celebration of food, traditions, and gathering together at the table. Includes recipe for baked macaroni and cheese.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021

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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BIN

Lawrence, Patrice

Summary: Ava is asked to dress up as an inspirational figure for her school assembly, but who should she choose? Granny suggests famous familiar figures such as Winifred Atwell, Mary Seacole, and Rosa Parks, and tells Ava all about their fascinating histories, but Ava's classmates have already claimed them--and she must choose someone else. But who? When Ava finds a mysterious old suitcase and Granny...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAW

Imapla

Summary: "This moving tale introduces the youngest picture book audience to a girl who misses her grandmother-whom she calls Tata or Tatita, as is traditional in many Spanish-speaking cultures-and yearns to spend time with her. But Tatita is not here any more. The spare, striking illustrations make it ambiguous whether the girl misses her tata because she lives in a faraway place, is ill, or has passed...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minerva, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE IMA

Arnold, Elana K.

Summary: "There are a few things you should know about Harriet Wermer: She just finished third grade. She has a perfect cat named Matzo Ball. She doesn't always tell the truth. She is very happy to be spending summer vacation away from home and her mom and dad and all the wonderful things she had been planning all year. Okay, maybe that last one isn't entirely the truth. Of course, there's nothing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ARN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ARN

Tan, Susan

Summary: Lucy's grandmother Poh Poh and her poodle Fluffy arrive for a visit, and Fluffy immediately begins building a doomsday machine that will hypnotize humans and turn them into agents of chaos--can Ember work with the other neighborhood pets to outsmart this evil genius?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2022

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Aronson, Sarah

Summary: Jillian does not want another grandmother, after all she already has a Noni and a Gram, so when her mother marries Michael she is distinctly cool to her new bubbe--but her mother convinces her to give Bubbe a chance, and Jillian and all her grandmothers come together over a bowl of soup. Includes recipes for Matzo Ball Soup, Italian Wedding Soup, and Gazpacho.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARO

Jules, Jacqueline

Summary: Sofia is making a family time capsule, filled with pictures and mementos from their lives, to be opened in fifteen years, and Abuela contributes letters to each of her grandchildren--but Sofia is so consumed with curiosity that she decides to sneak a peak at what her letter says.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2017

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Forman, Ruth

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2024

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Brown-Wood, JaNay

Summary: In rhyming text, when the whole family and guests show up for the big dinner at Grandma's house, it becomes clear that the house is much too small to hold them all.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE BRO

Mora, Julissa

Summary: Family members head into the kitchen to help Abuelita bake a tres leches cake for Papi's birthday.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN MOR

Downham, Jenny

Summary: Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc. 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DOW

Goyer, Tricia

Summary: "The Grumble family tried not to complain but bills and laundry and sibling squabbles kept everyone rumbling. When Grandma Grateful comes for a visit, things change"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids 2021

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOY

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