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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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LOVDarraj, Susan Muaddi
Summary: Farah's little brother is in the hospital with a heart problem that needs surgery, so her parents send sixth-grader Farah off to stay with her grandmother in a retirement condo in Florida; Sitti Fayrouz does not speak much English, has a lot of rules, and does not understand Farah's interest in geology, so Farah is not happy with the move--but despite being the only child in the community,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DARReid, C. L.
Summary: Emma and her brother are staying at their grandmother's house for a full week; she has packed her favorite stuffed toy and the recharger for her cochlear implant, but she is a little worried about feeling homesick--but with her grandmother keeping her busy, and the help of a new deaf friend named Nick, the week flies by. Includes an ASL fingerspelling chart, glossary, and content-related...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE REIJohnson, Varian
Summary: Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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Summary: "When Candice finds the letter, she isn't sure she should read it. It's addressed to her grandmother, after all, who left Lambert in a cloud of shame. But the letter describes a young African American woman named Siobhan Washington. An injustice that happened decades ago. A mystery enfolding the letter writer. And the fortune that awaits the person who solves the puzzle. Grandma tried and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HUNLord, Cynthia
Summary: Mia is spending her summer with her grandmother in a small Maine town, expecting it to be an oasis of stability in her changing life, but there is a new know-it-all boy next door, and soon she finds herself competing with Cayman in identifying an injured bird of prey--and pretty much everything else.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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Summary: Myka signs her Gammy and three best friends up for quilting classes, but for someone who is used to being the best at each activity she tries, Myka finds quilting surprisingly challenging.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED JONBennett, Jenn
Summary: Budding sleuths Helena and her best friend Ben hire an insufferable ghostly guide named Grumbones to track down her recently deceased grandmother in the underworld.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: "Marjorie wants a friend who loves the same things she does: baking shows, knitting, and gardening. Someone like Granny. So with a sprinkle of flour in her hair and a spritz of lavender perfume, Marjorie goes undercover to the local Senior Citizens Group"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AITDumond-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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paw Prints Publishing 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN DUMBooth, Coe
Summary: After a wonderful seven weeks at Ainsley International School, twelve-year-old Caprice has been offered a full scholarship and she should be delighted, but instead she is full of doubts because what happened at the last night dance has brought back the memory of being sexually abused by her uncle as a four-year-old; worse, her maternal grandmother is ill, and that means going back to the house...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BOOBlankman, Anne
Summary: Relocating to Leningrad in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster, neighbors Valentina and Oksana, who have been taught to hate each other because of religious differences, uncover painful family secrets while learning what it means to trust another person.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLAAirgood, Ellen.
Summary: "Ten-year-old Prairie is happy being home-schooled and raising her flock of chickens, so transferring to regular school is a big change, but fortunately she meets a wonderful friend"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDGBandy, Michael S.
Summary: "On his first train ride, Michael meets a new friend from the 'whites only' car, but finds they can hang together for only part of the trip, in the last story in a trilogy about the author's life growing up in the segregated South"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BANGaffney, Patricia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GAFPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: To thank Miss Eula for her wonderful Sunday chicken dinners, three children sell decorated eggs to buy her a beautiful Easter hat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC POLHyde, Catherine Ryan
Summary: Never knowing his parents, eleven-year-old Stewie Little and his brother have been raised on a farm by their older sister. Stewie steadfastly tends the chickens left by his beloved late grandmother. And every day Stewie goes door to door selling fresh eggs from his wagon, a routine with a surprise just around the corner. It's his new customer, Marilyn. She's prickly and guarded, yet comfortably...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC HYDTerciero, Rey
Summary: "Lucia Castillo dreams of being a hero like her grandfather. But to the people in their Texas town, he was just a strange old man who dressed up as a knight and claimed to save the world from monsters only he could see. Now years later, when Lucia and her best friend--and trusty squire--Sandro discover the town mayor is secretly a shapeshifting beast of Mexican lore, her parents think she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TERHolm, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018