Lee, Sophia N.
Summary: After recently moving to the United States, a young girl reminisces about her time spent helping her Lolo run his sari-sari store in the Philippines, and uses some of his wisdom to make herself feel more at home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LEEYoung, Judy
Summary: In 1572 Beijing, when a nine-year-old boy is named Emperor of China, Hu Wan offers the gift of a cricket cage carved from a gourd he and his grandfather grew.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOUKnight, Mary, (E. Mary)
Summary: Curley Hines has lost his father, mother, and brother to coal mining, and now he lives with his grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Wonder Gap, Kentucky--but when the mining company prepares to destroy their mountain he must use the words his grandfather has taught him to save Red Hawk Mountain, even if it means losing the life he loves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KNICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KNIFlorence, Melanie
Summary: "This picture book explores the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families. The story recognizes the pain of those whose culture and language were taken from them, how that pain is passed down and shared through generations, and how healing can also be shared. Stolen Words captures the beautiful, healing relationship...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FLOUegaki, Chieri
Summary: "A young girl finds a way to give the gift of a traditional Japanese garden back to her beloved grandfather and accept a difficult change."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE UGEWillis, Jeanne
Summary: A girl who is always outshone by her older sister is comforted by her grandfather, who reminds her that everything and everyone is made of stardust that shines in all different ways.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILTerrell, Brandon
Summary: After a fall during her balance beam routine thirteen-year-old Rachel and her cousin use the magical Sports Illustrated magazines in their grandfather's collection to travel back to the 1976 Olympics to observe Nadia Comăneci's perfect routines--and incidentally meet their grandfather who is covering the Olympics as a sports reporter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone Press imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC TERDabarera, 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
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DABPeschke, M. (Marci)
Summary: December comes to Texas and there is a catfish fishing contest at Arrowhead Lake with a special prize awaiting the winning adult/child team; Kylie's brother and father are entered as one team, and Kylie Jean convinces her grandfather to enter with her as another team--and Kylie dreams of catching Granddaddy Whiskers, a legendary blue catfish that has eluded fishermen for years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED PESRamos, Vanessa
Summary: Sixth-grader Selena Estrella Herrera's family moves to El Paso to help care for her grandfather, and she tries to reinvent herself by claiming her identity as *Strella--but the project her team chooses is about the singer Selena after whom *Strella is actually named.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED RAMCovey, Sean.
Summary: Goob's friends help him after his grandpa passes away.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E COVIwai, Melissa
Summary: Gigi loves the Japan Day Festival! When Ojiji volunteers at the origami booth, Gigi can't wait to make a paper crane like Ojiji's. But folding paper is harder than it looks, and Gigi is disheartened when she sees her paper crane next to Ojiji's. Will Gigi give up or will she try her best?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: Making meatballs for Grandpa, who no longer remembers much but loves to help cook, a little girl and her Grandma find cooking together makes more than just a meal as they prepare a savory Italian dinner, in this sensory-rich picture book about food, family and heritage.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Two Lions 2024
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Summary: A fearful second grader in Concord, Massachusetts, learns about death when his grandfather's best friend passes away and he offers to accompany his grandfather to the funeral.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LOOHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: When thirteen-year-old Ellie's Grandpa Melvin, a world-renowned scientist in the body of a fourteen-year-old boy, comes for an extended visit, he teaches her that experimenting--and failing--is part of life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC HOLLewis, Axel
Summary: This year the robot races are just for children, and Jimmy Roberts is entering the robot taxi his genius grandfather has built--but he will have to compete with a racer designed by NASA engineers for the wealthy and unscrupulous Horace Pelly.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEWMaddox, Jake
Summary: Sydney Todachine is looking forward to a summer on the beaches of San Diego before starting sixth-grade, but instead she finds herself on her Grandfather's ranch on the Navajo Nation reservation with no wi-fi, and while a couple of the kids are pretty nice, her cousin Hadley is as nasty as ever--but Sydney bonds with a spirited horse called Midnight, and together they start training at night...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MADLewis, Axel
Summary: The fourth leg of the robot races requires Jimmy and the other contestants to navigate a route through the Sahara Desert--without a navigation system.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Stone Arch Books 2013
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Summary: Marty doesn't have much, unlike his mum, who seems to hold on to everything. Life at home is tough, but Marty finds sanctuary down at the community garden with his eccentric grandad. On Marty's birthday, Grandad gifts him a seed. As it turns out, Grandad has a rather wonderful plan up his sleeve. It involves wishes, a pumpkin, and a trip all the way from England to Paris.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC LEWLewis, Axel
Summary: For the third leg of the robot races the contestants must choose between three possible Arctic routes, all of which are dangerous--especially when some of the racers are not playing by the rules.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Stone Arch Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEWCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEWLewis, Axel
Summary: Jimmy Roberts and his robot, Maverick, are ready for the next stage of the robot races which will go through the Amazon rain forest, but his enemy Horace Pelly is equally determined to win--and he does not care how he does it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Stone Arch Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEWMartin, Ann M.
Summary: Nine-year-old Pearl and her popular, thirteen-year-old sister, Lexie, do not get along very well, but when their grandfather moves in and the girls have to share a room, they must find common ground.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MARIwai, Melissa
Summary: "Gigi can't wait for her Ojiji-Japanese grandpa-to move in. Gigi plans lots of things to do with him, like playing tag, reading books, and teaching Roscoe, the family dog, new tricks. But her plans don't work out quite the way she'd hoped. And her grandpa doesn't seem to like Roscoe. Will Gigi find a way to connect with her Ojiji?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE IWALe, Minh
Summary: A boy and his grandfather cross a language and cultural barrier using their shared love of art, storytelling, and fantasy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2018