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Juster, Norton

Summary: Looking through the kitchen window, a little girl and her doting grandparents watch stars, play games, and, most importantly, say hello and goodbye.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michael di Capua Books/Hyperion Books for Children 2005

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Caldecott Juster 2005

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JUS

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JUS

Reidy, Jean

Summary: "Celebrates the special bond between grandparents and their grandchildren."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Reidy

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REI

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE REI

Bontigao, Lynnor

Summary: "Nora loves spending summers with Lola at her sari-sari store, a treasure trove filled with everything you could need, from hair accessories to toys, creamy yema to sour tamarind candy. And this year, Nora is big enough to help her grandmother. But when a heat wave strikes and no one comes to the store, Nora worries that she won't get to spend the rest of the summer with her lola -- until she...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BON

Chandler, Matt

Summary: Twelve-year-old Ella loves visiting her grandparents in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina every summer, and this year her grandfather announces they are going catfish noodling--but Ella is unsure about catching a fish with her bare hands.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CHA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CHA

Harrington, Claudia

Summary: Lenny follows Layla for a school project and learns what it is like to live with grandparents.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Looking Glass Library, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2016

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC HAR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAR

Cheng, Jack

Summary: "Sixth grader Andy Zhou grapples with fitting in, befriends a bully, drifts apart from his childhood best friend, and gets to know grandparents who have just moved from Shanghai to live with his family"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023

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Russell, Erin

Summary: When Hana's grandparents visit, Hana decides to cook a meal that represents both her Korean and Southern heritages.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RUS

Platt, Christine A.

Summary: "It's a surprise visit! Ana & Andrew are excited when Grandma comes to visit. While she is there, the family tours the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and learns about important African American achievements"--Page [4] of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2019

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Ransom, Candice F.

Summary: A girl spends a very special day with her grandparents, going to the museum and the park, and ending up helping her grandfather paint a new birdhouse.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR Orange Ransom

Dabarera, Dinalie

Summary: "Sometimes, the moments that Sona spends with her Sinhalese grandfather, her seeya, are quiet. They speak different languages and don't always use words. But they do communicate in other ways. Sometimes, they're loud. They play dress-up, stomp in puddles, and pretend to be puppies. They cook pittu, tease each other when they're messy, and read to each other, even though they might not...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAB

Satoko Seo, Emily

Summary: A little girl is determined to make perfect nigiri sushi for her grandmother, but her efforts only lead to frustration, until a surprising discovery helps her understand that cooking with love is more important than cooking perfect food.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAT

Harbridge, Paul

Summary: "A picture book about a girl who spends the summer with her family at a lake and learns to become more self-reliant."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAR

James, Anna (Anna Lois)

Summary: When eleven-year-old Tilly Pages joins Oskar and his family on a Christmas trip to Paris, she and her friend bookwander into the land of fairy tales, where someone--or something--is causing chaos.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC JAM

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Makatini, Bella

Summary: Danny spends a week with his Grandpa, who tells Danny about one animal from his homeland each day that he is there.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis Publishing Inc. 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MAK

Manushkin, Fran

Summary: Katie is nervous about a sleepover at her grandparents' house.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MAN

Montgomery, Anson.

Summary: The reader has a potion that can make his or her grandparents do whatever he or she wants them to - you get to choose from 8 different endings.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chooseco 2010

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Li, Christina

Summary: "Thanks to her Ye-Ye's epic scavenger hunts, thirteen-year-old Ruby Chu knows San Francisco like the back of her hand. But after his death, she feels lost, and it seems like everyone--from her best friends to her older sister--is abandoning her. After Ruby gets in major trouble at school, her parents decide she has to spend the summer at a local senior center, with her grandmother, Nai-Nai, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LI

Estrada, Isabel

Summary: In the 1970s mariachi was only for boys, but when Tuchi stumbles across her nana's guitarrón she decides to audition for her school's mariachi ensemble.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Wld Cult Estrada

Faruqi, Saadia

Summary: When Yasmin discovers an injured cat she immediately slips into the role of vet to care for the animal with the assistance of her grandmother, while her grandfather tries to contact the owner.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FAR

Berenstain, Mike

Summary: Join Papa, Mama, and the cubs as Gramps introduces them to some of the traditions most associated with St. Patrick's Day, from gathering to enjoy a parade down Main Street to leprechauns and pots of gold.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFestival, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021

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2 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: JE BER

Ho, Joanna

Summary: A young Asian boy notices that his eyes look different from his peers' after seeing his friend's drawing of them. After talking to his father, the boy realizes that his eyes rise to the skies and speak to the stars, shine like sunlit rays, and glimpse trails of light from those who came before--in fact, his eyes are like his father's, his agong's, and his little brother's, and they are...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HO

Ho, Joanna

Summary: A young Asian boy notices that his eyes look different from his peers' after seeing his friend's drawing of them. After talking to his father, the boy realizes that his eyes rise to the skies and speak to the stars, shine like sunlit rays, and glimpse trails of light from those who came before-in fact, his eyes are like his father's, his agong's, and his little brother's, and they are...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022

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Abe, Julie

Summary: "Tessa Miyata has never fit in. When she and her two sisters are told they will be staying at their grandparents in Japan, Tessa is thrilled. A summer in Japan could be her chance to go on an adventure worthy of impressing her classmates back home. Her hopes are quickly dashed when, all too soon, she realizes that life in Japan is just like being in California: her sisters are old enough to go...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Faruqi, Saadia

Summary: When spring arrives, Yasmin and her Baba plant a garden but Yasmin's flower seedling keeps wilting until her Nani sits in the sun, revealing to Yasmin what the plant needs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, A Capstone Imprint 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FAR

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