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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

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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

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Delany, Vicki

Summary: "As the proprietor and head pastry chef of Tea by the Sea, a tearoom on the picturesque bluffs of Cape Cod, Lily Roberts has her hands are full. But nothing keeps her busier than steering her sassy grandmother, Rose, away from trouble. Rose operates the B & B adjacent to Lily's tea shop ... for now. Real estate developer Jack Ford is pushing hard to rezone nearby land, with an eye toward...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023

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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DEL

Flett, Julie

Summary: Clarence, a young Cree Indian, and his grandmother pick blueberries together as they sing, look out for the animals, and enjoy sampling the fruit.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ingram Pub Services 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FLE

Perry, Anne

Summary: Mariah Ellison, Charlotte Pitt's grandmother, accepts her long-time friend Sadie's gracious invitation to spend Christmas with her and her husband, Barton, in their picturesque village. But upon arrival, Mariah discovers that Sadie has vanished without a trace, and Barton rudely rescinds the invitation. Once Mariah finds another acquaintance to stay with during the holiday season, she begins...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023

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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PER

Rimmer, Kelly

Summary: "Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz. Now fifteen and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of Nazi soldiers at the Polish border, believing her neighbors that they pose no real threat, and dreams instead of the day Tomasz returns from college in Warsaw so they can be married. But little by little, injustice by brutal injustice, the Nazi...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019

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Armand, Glenda

Summary: As Frances helps her grandmother with New Year's Day dinner, Grandma teachers her the origins of the different dishes and soul food they prepare together. Includes a recipe for Fay's Fabulous Pralines.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARM

De Regil, Tania

Summary: At Grandma's house, where Julia is staying without her parents for the first time, the breeze is sweet like jasmine. Mornings begin with sugared bread, and the most magnificent hot chocolate cures all homesickness. There's something about this place and about Grandma. Like how she can tell when Julia has been quietly picking limes from the garden. Or that she can see the future--and knows when...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022

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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"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2021

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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

Cantor, Jillian

Summary: The once-rising literary star Olivia Fitzgerald is down on her luck. Her most recent novel, a retelling of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, was a flop, her boyfriend of nine years just dumped her and she's battling a bad case of writer's block. So when her agent calls her with a high-paying ghostwriting opportunity, Olivia is all too willing to sign the NDA. At first, the write-for-hire job seems...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CAN

Cao, Wenxuan

Summary: Ah Mei has always been close to her French grandmother, Nainai, and is proud to look like her. But in their home city of Shanghai, many people are suspicious of their European heritage and looks. Politics and war make 1960s Shanghai a difficult place to grow up, especially when the family silk business is given over to the government and they are left with their beloved home and little else. Ah...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022

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

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

Barnes, Jennifer (Jennifer Lynn)

Summary: While spending a summer at the family lake house, eighteen-year-old Sawyer finally learns the full truth about her complicated family.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Freeform Books 2019

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

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

Genhart, Michael

Summary: It's time to prepare for the school Spanish spelling bee, and Manolo is determined to take home the grand prize. Naturally, he turns to his loving abuela for help and together they spell the words: H-e-r-m-o-s-o. Beautiful. O-r-g-u-l-l-o-s-o. Proud. F-u-e-r-t-e. Strong. While they practice, Abuela shares stories of when she was a little girl. Back then, students were not permitted to speak...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GEN

Tan, Susan

Summary: Lucy's grandmother Poh Poh and her poodle Fluffy arrive for a visit, and Fluffy immediately begins building a doomsday machine that will hypnotize humans and turn them into agents of chaos--can Ember work with the other neighborhood pets to outsmart this evil genius?

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Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2022

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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

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

Smallman, Steve

Summary: Told not to talk to strangers on her way to Grandma's, Little Red Riding Hood ignores a wolf and decides to talk to a friendly rabbit instead, but she soon learns that looks can be deceiving.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: QEB Publishing, Inc. 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SMA

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 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 Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LOV

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

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BON

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

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

McManus, Karen M.

Summary: "Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Now Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows. The town is picture-perfect, but it's hiding secrets. And before school even begins for Ellery,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2019

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MCM

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