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22) Bob
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Visiting her grandmother in Australia, Livy, ten, is reminded of the promise she made five years before to Bob, a strange, green creature who cannot recall who or what he is.
23) Valentine
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
While waiting for her mother to come home from work on Valentine's Day, Heather helps her grandmother rescue a newborn lamb and bake a special cooky.
24) Second sleep
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Max and his sister Rose go to visit their grandmother's lakeside vacation home, they soon discover that their nightly sleeps bring them to a timelocked place with kids from all different eras, united by their love of the lake--and Max begins to wonder if they can help him to find his missing mother.
26) My paati's saris
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A Tamil boy explores his love for his grandmother and her colorful sari collection in this tale of expressing your true self"--
27) Ivy
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A young girl helps her grandmother care for magical creatures.
28) Evergreen
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
To deliver her mother's delicious soup to her sick Granny Oak, Evergreen the squirrel must face her fears and make the journey, during which she meets other forest dwellers, including some who want to get their hands on her soup!
Author
Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"It's granny's birthday, but her little granddaughter wonders why, because of the lines on her face, she looks so worried! But they are simply wrinkles, and grandma is very fond of her lines because they are where she keeps her memories."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Green Knowe chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Tolly comes to live with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century.
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A grandmother explores her special garden with her granddaughters. Wonder grows everywhere but Grandmother especially loves to show it in her story garden. She invites her granddaughters to join her there in a sweet meditation on the treasures she's brought to that magical place--the rocks, the shells, the crystals, the meteorites : how they came to be, how they were formed, how they each have a story to tell"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When her grandmother and guardian suffers a stroke, twelve-year-old Poppy Parker's life turns upside down--but when she witnesses a murder and has to go into witness protection with Detective Brannigan's mother it becomes hard to believe she will ever find a way home, let alone save Gunner, a beautiful German shepherd with an uncertain future.
35) The witches
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Grandma says she's seen a tiger in the garden, Nora doesn't believe her. She's too old to play Grandma's silly games! Everyone knows that tigers live in jungles, not gardens. So, even when Nora sees butterflies with wings as big as her arm, and plants that try and eat her toy giraffe, and a polar bear that likes fishing, she knows there's absolutely, definitely no way there could be a tiger in the garden. Could there?
Author
Series
Nguyen kids volume 4
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Visiting Vietnam for the first time, the Nguyen kids stay in their Grandma Nội’s childhood home where they feel something isn't quite right when the ancestors' room won't open and they can't connect with Grandma Nội using their gifts.
38) Caprice
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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 in Baltimore where it all happened--Caprice has never...
39) Zebra forest
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Annie first started lying to her social worker, she had been taught by an expert: Gran. She told Annie and her little brother, Rew, the one thing they know about their father: that he was killed in a fight with an angry man who was sent away. Annie tells stories, as she and Rew laze under the birches and oaks of Zebra Forest -- stories about their father the pirate, or pilot, or secret agent. But then something shocking happens...
Author
Publisher
HighWater Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"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 these things were taken away. When We Were Alone is a story...
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