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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 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

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POL

Teerdhala, Swati

Summary: "When her grandmother gifts her a jasmine flower, Deepa Josyula wishes for her dream boyfriend, which sets in motion a chain of events that makes her question what her heart truly wants-- the perfect boy brought by magic or the uncertainty of the boy next door"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TEE

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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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

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

Greenlaw, Suzanne

Summary: "In this Own Voices Native American picture book story, a modern Wabanaki girl is excited to accompany her grandmother for the first time to harvest sweetgrass for basket making"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2021

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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

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

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

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

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ ALONG CHO

Lovell, Patty

Summary: When Gertie moves in next door with fancy toys and a huge television set, Molly shares lessons she learned from her grandmother about home-made playthings and imagination.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2012

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Copies Available at Interlochen

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

Copies Available at East Bay

2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LOV

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LOV

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LOV

Robertson, David

Summary: "When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully colored clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where all of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROB

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

Chouhan, Anu

Summary: Meenu discovers the magic in her culture's tradition of hair oiling, and the bond she shares with her mother and grandmother. Includes Meenu's magic hair day tips.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHO

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

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KEM

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

Hill, Eric

Summary: Spot and Grandma have been on a day trip, and now it's time to take the train home. What will they see on the journey? This delightful story featuring the much-loved Spot is a perfect introduction to new experiences like riding the train.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Frederick Warne, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021

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Burgess, Matthew

Summary: Sylvester imaginatively creates a special letter full of loving memories and shared moments for his favorite person, his beloved grandmother, even though she is gone.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BUR

Reynoso-Morris, Alyssa

Summary: "A young girl learns the cultural significance of plantains while cooking alongside her abuela"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REY

Hunt, Dallas

Summary: "As young Awâsis searches for the ingredients to make Kohkum's world-famous bannock recipe, they run into a variety of other-than-human relatives that help them along in their journey. Includes a pronunciation guide and Kohkum's world-famous bannock recipe at the back of the book."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Highwater Press 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HUN

Fleck, Jessika

Summary: When the Twin Towers fall on September 11, 2001, blocks from her school, twelve-year-old Molly, unable to reach her dads or Gran, must find her seven-year-old sister, Adi, and get her safely home. Includes author's note, glossary, and discussion questions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED FLE

Summary: "Join Bluey and Bingo as they try to answer the question: can grannies dance?"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers Licenses, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021

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Younge, Lesley

Summary: Allen, known as A-Train because he is the fastest kid around, races through the city towards the one thing that will get him to slow down.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOU

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 Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GRE

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