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Florence, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FLO

Ramos, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Holm, 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

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC HOL

O'Connor, Jane.

Summary: Nancy writes a report for school about her great-grandfather, making things up so he seems less ordinary, but when she learns that Grandpa will be there to hear her read the report aloud she realizes she was dishonest.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Park, Barbara.

Summary: Junie B. is very upset when a boy in her class plans to invite everyone except her to his birthday party, but her grandfather helps her deal with the situation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1996

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC PAR

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED JBJ 6

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PAR

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LEE

Willis, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WIL

Quach, Michelle

Summary: "Francine loves her grandfather, but their time together is running out. He has one final wish: to see a male heir carry on the family traditions. Francine knows his ideas are outdated, but she would do anything for him. Her solution? Ask Ollie Tran, a family friend (and former crush, not that it matters), to pretend to be ceremonially adopted and act like the grandson A Gūng never had. Ollie...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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

Uegaki, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE UGE

Lewis, Caryl

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC LEW

Yolen, Jane

Summary: "Under Grandpa's watchful eye, the kids are thrilled to discover that the craggy rocks, tufted grass, and windswept trees on Giant Island are much more than they seem. Are the children the first to fathom this huge secret, or does Grandpa have a secret of his own?"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flashlight Press 2022

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Terrell, 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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC TER

Park, Ginger

Summary: Lily and her grandpa are good pen pals, so when he dies and leaves behind a rice paper scroll he was painting for her, Lily finishes the scroll with help from her mother.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PAR

Covey, Sean.

Summary: Goob's friends help him after his grandpa passes away.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E COV

Fontenaille, Élise

Summary: A six-year-old boy loves nothing more than spending time with Luis, his immigrant grandfather, who teaches the boy about birds, plants, and the natural world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FON

Iwai, 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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Iwai, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Jones, Jeanette Fazzari

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JON

Look, Lenore.

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Spyri, Johanna

Summary: A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Classics 1998

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Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Summary: The Alden children hunt for their late grandmother's necklace that has been missing for years.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 1992

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Le, 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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LE

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LE

Lewis, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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