Platt, Christine A.
Summary: "It's summertime! Ana & Andrew travel to visit their grandparents in Savannah, Georgia. While they are there, they learn that Grandma and Grandpa's church was built by slaves. With some help from an unusual source!' -- Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLAPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: "It's a surprise visit! Ana & Andrew are excited when Grandma comes to visit. While she is there, the family tours the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and learns about important African American achievements"--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLAPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: "It's a surprise visit! Ana & Andrew are excited when Grandma comes to visit. While she is there, the family tours the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and learns about important African American achievements"--Page [2].
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR PURPLE SPANISH PLAMakatini, Bella
Summary: Danny spends a week with his Grandpa, who tells Danny about one animal from his homeland each day that he is there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis Publishing Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MAKMayer, Mercer
Summary: Collects six stories starring Little Critter, in which he trains for a race, builds a snowman, spends the weekend with his grandparents, and works on a project for the science fair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE CRIHoberman, Mary Ann.
Summary: A special quilt keeps a little girl from feeling homesick when she sleeps over with her grandparents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HoberHeller, Linda.
Summary: Julie's grandmother deflates many of her husband's tall tales about their journey from Russia to America and their life on Hester Street.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HELCrum, Shutta.
Summary: One summer day on her great-grandparents' Kentucky farm, a squabble with her cousin Melvin spurs Brenda Gail to begin choosing the moments that will become her own special song made of memories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CRURuelle, Karen Gray.
Summary: Emily says "Yuck" whenever apples are mentioned, but when she and her older brother, Harry, sleep over at their grandparents' house, they all pick apples and make them into delicious pies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2002
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE RUEJohnson, Leah
Summary: Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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Summary: Nancy is furious when she cannot go to her friend Bree's butterfly-themed birthday party, but her family's outing might just be extraordinary enough to make her feel better. Includes facts about butterflies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Childrens Books 2008
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Summary: After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1994
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CREOrr, Wendy.
Summary: When her parents take her to visit a very special pet store in the park across from her apartment, both Sophie and Mr. and Mrs. Noah, the pet store owners, have their secret wishes fulfilled.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt 2000
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ORRFrazee, Marla.
Summary: Friends James and Eamon enjoy a wonderful week at the home of Eamon's grandparents during summer vacation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FRAHarrington, Claudia
Summary: Lenny follows Layla for a school project and learns what it is like to live with grandparents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Looking Glass Library, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HARManushkin, Fran
Summary: Katie is nervous about a sleepover at her grandparents' house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2010
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MANShepherd, Gail
Summary: When twelve-year-old Lyndie and her parents must move to her grandparents' home in small-town Tennessee in 1985, having to keep all family problems private only adds to their problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SHEFaruqi, Saadia
Summary: When spring arrives, Yasmin and her Baba plant a garden but Yasmin's flower seedling keeps wilting until her Nani sits in the sun, revealing to Yasmin what the plant needs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, A Capstone Imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FARWells, Rosemary.
Summary: For the traditional Japanese celebration of Girls' Day, Yoko receives a special gift from her grandparents in Japan: a doll named Miki that has been passed down through her family for generations. Yoko is so excited to share Miki with the class that she disobeys her mother, who tells her, "Miki is too delicate to take to school."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Wells 2010Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WELPan, Emily X. R.
Summary: Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: when her mother committed suicide, she turned into a bird and flew to her native Taiwan. On her journey to find her mother, Leigh must face her family's past and move towards a future of forgiveness and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PANMcVoy, Terra Elan
Summary: "When Lana's and Cassie's grandparents marry each other, the girls find themselves stuck together on a crazy summer road trip that will change the course of their friendship and their lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION MCVOBuckey, Sarah Masters
Summary: Traveling to Paris in 1907 with Grandmary and the Admiral, Samantha and her adopted sister Nellie suspect that someone is trying to harm their beloved grandfather and stop his secret government mission. Includes a glossary of French words and an "Inside Samantha's World" essay about tourism and international tensions in Europe in the early 1900s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BUCMcAnulty, Stacy
Summary: Nine-year-old Frank, his cousin Sam, and cat Saurus's efforts to keep Peanut the newly-hatched dinosaur's existence a secret become more complicated when their grandmother finds a new fossil that looks like Peanut's horn, but a thousand times bigger, and a crew comes to make a movie about it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J DF 2Parish, Herman.
Summary: While visiting her grandparents, literal-minded Amelia Bedelia finally learns, despite some mishaps, how to bake an apple pie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2010