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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 East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POL

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POL

Petrus, Junauda

Summary: "A vision of a world where community care and safety are not the jobs of police, based on a protest poem written by Petrus after the police officer who killed Michael Brown was not charged"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PET

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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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

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STR

Williams, Vera B.

Summary: Three babies are caught up in the air and given loving attention by a father, grandmother, and mother.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1990

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WIL

Buxbaum, Julie

Summary: When Sky's grandmother is kidnapped, Sky discovers her secret life as an undercover FBAI agent, and embarks on a mission filled with puzzles, codes, and risky adventures to save her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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

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

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: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA Fiction Arnold 2022

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

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

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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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

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

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

Vaught, Susan

Summary: Grandma Beans and Avadelle Richardson havent spoken in decades, and with her Alzheimer's Grandma Beans doesn't make a lot of sense. But when she tells Dani to find a secret key and envelope that she's hidden, Dani can't ignore her. Her investigation with the help of her friend, Indri, and her not-friend, Mac, takes them deep into the history of Oxford, Mississippi, and the riots surrounding the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2016

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Vaught 2016

Jules, Jacqueline

Summary: Sofia helps her grandmother make her special rice pudding, but there is a mix-up in the recipe.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC JUL

Sternberg, Julie

Summary: "Catarina has never met her strict Jewish grandmother. But now, with an opportunity to spend three weeks in Baton Rouge and away from her best-friends-turned-bullies, Cat packs her bags and leaves New York City to get to know the woman who has always been a mystery. Down South, she begins working at her grandmother's luxury department store. Nothing seems to be going right and nobody talks...

Format: text

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

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

Hunt, Lynda Mullaly

Summary: Delsie loves tracking the weather, living with her grandmother, and the support of friends and neighbors, but misses having a "regular family," especially after her best friend outgrows her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2019

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC HUN

Palacio, R. J.

Summary: "Sara Blum lives an idyllic life with her adoring parents in Vichy France. But her world comesc crashing down when the Nazi occupation separates the family and forces the young Jewish girl into hiding. Her classmate Julien and his family will risk everything to ensure her survival, and, together, Sara and Julien manage to find beauty in a secret world of their creation."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 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

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

McLemore, Anna-Marie

Summary: The Soler sisters are infamous in polite society--brazen, rebellious, and raised by their fashionable grandmother who couldn't care less about which fork goes where. But their grandmother also knows the standards that two Latina young ladies will be held to, so she secures them two coveted places at the Alarie House, a prominent finishing school that turns out first ladies, princesses, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2024

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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

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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

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SYL

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

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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