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Author
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Little Bear has the best grandma in the world! The two spend their day together rolling down hills, skipping pebbles in the stream, fishing, and sharing stories. And the perfect end to the day is a bear hug from Grandma before bed -- from the publisher.
64) Tortilla sun
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While spending a summer in New Mexico with her grandmother, twelve-year-old Izzy makes new friends, learns to cook, and for the first time hears stories about her father, who died before she was born.
65) Surprise Lily
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Happily living on the family farm with just her grandmother, Rose's world is irrevocably changed when her absent mother shows up out of the blue with a surprise baby sister for Rose"--
67) Infinity and me
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After the sight of a night sky filled with stars makes eight-year-old Uma feel very small, she asks people how they think about infinity and gets a variety of answers before realizing the comfort in knowing that some things go on forever.
Author
Series
Kitty's magic volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
©2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As Guardian of the Cat Council, eight-year-old Kitty, in her cat form, tries to help Shadow, a cat that recently became unsociable.
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Wanting to follow in the footsteps of her free-diving haenyeo grandmother, a young Korean girl dutifully consumes her grandmother's strength-building abalone porridge and practices her breath control before suiting up and overcoming fears to make remarkable discoveries.
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Martha alwasys seems to do the wrong thing around Helen's Grandma Lucille. To prove that she really is a considerate dog, Martha decides to do something extra special for Grandma's birthday. Can Martha redeem herself by finding a gift in time for the big day?
72) A gift for Nana
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A little rabbit is on the hunt for the perfect gift for his grandmother"--
73) Spicy spicy hot
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lintang is determined to embrace the spice of sambal in order to connect with her Indonesian grandmother and heritage.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
You love Grandma, and Grandma loves you! Love her by: sharing with her, helping her, cheering her on, and, most of all, giving her great big hugs. Celebrate all the moments that can make grandmas feel special and loved.
76) Leave me alone!
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Grandmother wants so badly to be left alone to finish the knitting for her grandchildren that she leaves her tiny home and her big family to journey to the moon and beyond to find peace and quiet to finish her knitting.
77) Conjure Island
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"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Becca loves spending time with Grandma. Every time Becca says, "Let me try," Grandma shows her how to make something beautiful. Whether they are beading moccasins, dancing like the most beautiful butterflies, or practicing basketball together, Becca knows that, more than anything, she wants to be just like Grandma. And as the two share their favorite activities, Becca discovers something surprising about Grandma.
79) 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"--
80) When Nana dances
Author
Publisher
Magination Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Nana shimmies, bops, taps, and twirls her way to a shindig with her grandchildren, who love dancing with their grandmother.
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