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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling author Lauraine Snelling shares a heartfelt story of a couple who put their plans for a peaceful retirement on hold to assume guardianship of their young grandchildren. Mona and Ken Sorenson are approaching the best years of their lives. Mona's greatest concern is that Ken will learn of the surprise party she's planning for his retirement from his job as Dean of Students at Stone University. They've already been making plans to travel,...
Author
Series
Fablehaven volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Since ancient times, the great demon prison Zzyzx has protected the world from the most dangerous servants of darkness, including Gorgrog, the Demon King. After centuries of plotting, the Sphinx is on the verge of recovering the five artifacts necessary to open the legendary prison. To thwart the Sphinx's designs and find a safe home for the five artifacts, Kendra, Seth, and the Knights of the Dawn must venture far beyond the walls of Fablehaven in...
Author
Series
Darius the Great volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.
Author
Publisher
Northfield Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Things aren't what they once were. As younger generations become increasingly immersed in the endless presence of tech, older generations struggle finding common ground to relate.The gap between grandparent and grandchild may feel wider than ever. Grandparenting Screen Kids is a grandparent's guide to start bridging this gap. Relationship expert Gary Chapman along with coauthor Arlene Pellicane will help you understand this different (and often troubling)...
9) Hooray for grandparents: ideas for keeping close, building traditions, and creating lasting memories
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Hooray for Grandparents celebrates the special role grandparents play in children's lives and collects 50 ways to build a strong relationship between grandparent and grandchild. Through fun activities to do together, ways to create your own special traditions, advice on how to be their support in difficult times, and ideas for building a legacy that goes on throughout their own lives, this is full of useful, fun, and meaningful ways for grandparents...
10) A plan for Pops
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In this illustrated picture book, a child helps their grandparents deal with a difficult change in abilities."--
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 20
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2010], c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Two kids spend the summer at their grandparents' farm where they discover that things have changed. But not for the better...for the scarier!"--Publisher description.
Author
Series
Yoko books (Rosemary Wells) volume 4
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When Yoko's grandparents send her a beautful antique doll all the way from Japan, Yoko the cat couldn't be happier. She places Miki on a windowsill and brings her candy every day. On Girls' Festival Day, Yoko wants to show Miki to her class and tell them all about the Japanese holiday. In her Big No voice Mama says, "We don't trouble trouble or trouble will trouble us." But Yoko is so excited about Girls' Day that she can't resist taking Miki to school....
Author
Series
Twig and Turtle volume 4
Publisher
Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Friendship woes and a visit from Grandma push Twig to find her voice in the fourth book in the Twig and Turtle chapter book series, perfect for fans of Ivy and Bean and Judy Moody."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thanks to her Ye-Ye's epic scavenger hunts, thirteen-year-old Ruby Chu knows San Francisco like the back of her hand. But after his death, she feels lost, and it seems like everyone--from her best friends to her older sister--is abandoning her. After Ruby gets in major trouble at school, her parents decide she has to spend the summer at a local senior center, with her grandmother, Nai-Nai, and Nai-Nai's friends for company. When a new boy from Ruby's...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Emma London never thought she had anything in common with her grandmother Genevieve London. The regal old woman came from wealthy and bluest-blood New England stock, but that didn't protect her from life's cruelest blows: the disappearance of Genevieve's young son, followed by the premature death of her husband. But Genevieve rose from those ashes of grief and built a fashion empire that was respected the world over, even when it meant neglecting...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Crawford Hunt wants his daughter back. Following the death of his wife four years ago, Crawford, a Texas Ranger, fell into a downward spiral that left him relegated to deskwork and with his five-year-old daughter Georgia in the custody of her grandparents. But Crawford has cleaned up his act, met all the court imposed requirements, and now the fate of his family lies with Judge Holly Spencer. Holly, ambitious and confident, temporarily occupies the...
20) Walk two moons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Salamanca Tree Hiddle, age 13, and her grandparents are off to find Salamanca's mother, who left home on a trip to Idaho and never came back. As they acquire a car and retrace her route, Sal tells the story of her friend Phoebe Winterbottom, whose mother also disappeared under unusual circumstances.
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