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Polacco, Patricia

Summary: Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1990

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC POL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Polacco 1990

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE POL

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POL

Austin, Lynn N.

Summary: New York, 1898. Three generations of women in one family must reckon with the choices they have made and their hopes for the future.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Brown-Wood, JaNay

Summary: "When taking cornbread to Grandma, Mahogany encounters a hungry wolf and outsmarts him by cleverly hiding in the woods and using her sewing skills to trap him"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRO

Yoshitake, Shinsuke

Summary: Troubled because her brother has told her that the future of Earth is bleak, a little girl goes to her grandmother who assures her that there are many possible futures and encourages her to use her imagination to explore some of the alternatives.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOS

Coble, Colleen

5 holds on 6 copies

Summary: "Carly Harris is trying to adjust to life as a single mom after the unsolved murder of her husband. When her grandmother suggests renovating the family home into a bed-and-breakfast, Carly discovers family secrets in the attic--including a treasure possibly worth millions of dollars. She reaches out to her next-door-neighbor, who is also a police officer, for advice, but Lucas Bennett gets more...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2024

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC COB

Greene, Rhonda Gowler

Summary: "When one family is besieged by illness, missing pets, mounds of dirty laundry and dishes, Supergran rushes in to help manage the chaos"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GRE

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

Quan, Betty

Summary: "Grandmother lives with Grace's family. She teaches her how to measure water for rice. She tells her stories about growing up in China and together they savor the flavors of her childhood. Grandmother says goodbye when she drops Grace off at school every morning and hello when she picks her up at the end of the day. Suddenly, Grandmother stops walking Grace to and from school, and the door to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE QUA

Melleby, Nicole

Summary: Winnie Nash, who has been keeping her sexual orientation a secret, spends the summer with her grandma in New Jersey as she struggles with her family's expectations while yearning to embrace her true self and attend the Pride Parade in New York City.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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

Davies, Jacqueline

Summary: "For as long as Jessie could remember, New Year's Eve meant staying at Grandma's house and the long, slow climb to the top of Lovell's Hill, where the trees parted and the sky opened and there stood the old iron bell... But this year, everything is different. Grandma has set her house on fire, and when Jessie snowshoes her way up to Lovell's Hill, she finds that the bell is ... missing. Who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2012

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Kemp, Laekan Zea

Summary: Corina's Abuela helps her select flowers that mean something to Corina from the garden for her Mexican flower crown that she will wear on her birthday, and explains the symbolic meaning of a birthday crown.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KEM

DiCamillo, Kate

Summary: During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DIC

Simon, Nina

Summary: A murder next door in their coastal California town unites the estranged Rubicon women--Lana, her daughter Beth and granddaughter Jack--to protect their family and solve the crime.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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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

Cho, Tina

Summary: Wanting to follow in the footsteps of her free-diving haenyeo grandmother, a young Korean girl dutifully consumes her grandmother's strength-building abalone porridge and practices her breath control before suiting up and overcoming fears to make remarkable discoveries.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023

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Simon, Nina

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: The Maid meets The Last Thing He Told Me in this fun, fresh, and twisty debut whodunnit about a grandmother-mother-daughter trio who come together as amateur sleuths to solve a murder in their coastal California town. Nothing brings an estranged family together like a murder next door. High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of: her keen intelligence, impeccable taste, and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Churchill, Amanda

4 holds on 2 copies

Summary: In 1999 Texas, Lia Cope, when her grandmother Mineko moves in, connects with her over stories of the Turtle House in Japan and the secrets they both carry, and when Mineko is forced to live in an assisted living community, she and Lia devise a plan to bring a beloved lost place to life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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Manushkin, Fran

Summary: When Katie's grandmother trips and breaks her ankle, Katie learns about the importance of paramedics to her neighborhood.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR PURPLE SPANISH MAN

Straub, Emma

Summary: A girl and her eccentric grandmother spend a day being silly together.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rocky Pond Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STR

De Regil, Tania

Summary: En una primera visita sin sus papás a la casa de su abuela en las afueras de la Ciudad de México, una niña descubre lo que hace que la abuela tan especial.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022

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Bonilla, Lindsay

Summary: Griffin's grandmother showers him with love, encouragement, and a world of stories, all of which stand him in good stead when it is time for her to depart and he is left to tell his own stories--and hers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BON

James, Helen Foster

Summary: When Nana and her little bunny finish up a day of fun, they settle in for bedtime.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE JAM

Rimmer, Kelly

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz. Now fifteen and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of Nazi soldiers at the Polish border, believing her neighbors that they pose no real threat, and dreams instead of the day Tomasz returns from college in Warsaw so they can be married. But little by little, injustice by brutal injustice, the Nazi...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019

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