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Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dozing off while contemplating Grandpa's unusual vacation, Kate dreams about Chewandswallow, where it snows popcorn and rains sandwiches and the fate of falling food intrigues her.
Author
Series
Dixie Hemingway mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A pet-sitting venture turns murderous when a client's granddaughter needs protecting from con artists who have stolen millions from investors, a case that Dixie Hemingway ties to the community's most prominent citizens.
45) One frozen lake
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Grandpa introduces grandchild to the art of ice fishing--sharing a cozy ice shack, sorting colorful tackle, and finding ways to pass the time. But where are the fish? Will they ever catch a fish?"--
46) In plain sight
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"An ailing grandfather and his helpful granddaughter play a unique game of seek and find"--
47) You're next
Author
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books/Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Flora Calhoun, haunted by a history of finding dead bodies and the murder of her ex, Ava McQueen, uncovers a conspiracy, putting herself and all her loved ones in peril.
49) Soul enchilada
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When, after a demon appears to repossess her car, she discovers that both the car and her soul were given as collateral in a deal made with the Devil by her irrascible grandfather, eighteen-year-old Bug Smoot, given two-days' grace, tries to find ways to outsmart the Devil and his minions.
Author
Series
Storm keeper's island volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Deserted by his magic, Fionn Boyle, Storm Keeper of Arranmore, sees the island beginning to wither and illness sweeping the land and must find a way to summon Dagda's army of merrows.
Author
Series
Marcelli family romances volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Language
English
53) The great spruce
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The spruce tree his grandfather planted means a lot to Alec, so when men from the city want to use as a Christmas tree, Alec offers a compromise.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explores some of the many and varied ways a grandfather can express his love, even without saying the words, such as by sharing his coin collection, holding hands when crossing the street, and attending tea parties.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Secret Staircase Construction is under attack, and Tempest Raj feels helpless. After former client Julian Rhodes tried to kill his wife, he blamed her "accident" on the home renovation company's craftsmanship. Now the family business - known for bringing magic into homes through hidden doors, floating staircases, and architectural puzzle walls - is at a breaking point. No amount of Scottish and Indian meals from her grandfather can distract Tempest...
56) Sway with me
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Arsalan Nizami has learned all he knows from his 100-year-old great-grandfather, but when Beenish Siraj asks him to be her partner in a dance she's been forbidden to perform at her sister's wedding, Arsalan's world opens up in more ways than he could have imagined"--
Author
Series
Calpurnia Tate volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
58) Bag of bones
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is unable to write and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs. Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway and finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a vindictive millionaire, Max Devore, who is trying to take his three-year-old granddaughter away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn...
59) The lost house
Author
Publisher
Viking, published by Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A brother and sister want to go to the playground with their grandfather, but they can't leave until they find everything they need to take with them, in his colorful house. Help Grandad find all of his belongings in this search and find!"--
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