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1) Love bubble
Author
Publisher
Running Press Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Harry's grandmother, Big Girl, teaches him the power of love for self and community.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From Newbery Honor Winner Cynthia Lord, a brilliant story about how to find home when everything around us is changing. Mia and her mom visit Grandma in Maine every summer, but this year Mia is going alone. Her mom will stay behind to get their house ready to sell. It’ll be a new start, she says, after the divorce. Mia doesn’t want a new start. She’d rather everything just stayed the same! At least things will be the same at Grandma’s,...
7) Old to Joy
Author
Publisher
Gnome Road Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Joy visits her Grandmama, who lives in an old house with all kinds of old things. As the day passes, Grandmama patiently helps Joy discover how old things and old ways can bring joy to any heart.
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning author of Root Magic comes the story of a girl forced to spend the summer with a great-grandmother she's never met--only to discover she runs a school for Southern conjure magic"--
10) Supergran!
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When one family is besieged by illness, missing pets, mounds of dirty laundry and dishes, Supergran rushes in to help manage the chaos"--
12) Miss Irwin
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A young boy, aware of his grandmother's forgetfulness, helps her recall a time when she was a kindergarten teacher teaching her students about hummingbirds and their nests.
13) A-Train Allen
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Allen, known as A-Train because he is the fastest kid around, races through the city towards the one thing that will get him to slow down.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When her beloved lăolao can't attend the Spring Lantern Festival, Lili is taken on a Chinese mythology-inspired adventure as she drifts off to sleep, where she finally gets to see the one person she wants to see most"--
18) Boys don't fry
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A young Malaysian boy enthusiastically assists his grandmother prepare their Lunar New Year dinner, all the while learning about the history of their traditional cuisine"--
19) The walk
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
As a little girl accompanies her grandma on a walk to the polling station, members of their community join and the grandmother explains the importance of their journey.
20) Joy takes root
Author
Publisher
Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In her grandmother's garden, a young Black girl learns about mindfulness and herbal medicine in this soothing intergenerational story about our connection to nature."--Amazon.com.
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