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101) Liplap's wish
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Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
As he builds a snowbunny, Liplap feels something is missing and wishes his grandmother who recently died was with him. A wonderful sensitive story about children's feeling the sadness and loss after the death of a loved one as seen through the little rabbit, Liplap's eyes.
102) Hooked on you
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Riley McAllister is living the dream in New York City . . . if the dream means being a struggling mixed-media artist, part-time food delivery driver, and having a carefully curated social media to hide all of the above. She refuses to admit defeat and move back to small-town Maple Falls, but when her grandmother breaks her leg sliding into third base during a softball game (she was safe, by the way), Riley reluctantly agrees to go home and help the...
103) City of the beasts
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 15
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When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.
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Catherine, recently divorced, comes to live in her grandmother's house and discovers her diary that tells how she raised her sisters, was sent to a sanitarium for tuberculosis, fell in love and how she had changed when she returned home. It allows the granddaughter to see her own patterns of disappointment and compromise in her life and that of her grandmother
107) The next best thing
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At twenty-three, Ruth Saunders headed west with her seventy-year-old grandma in tow, hoping to be hired as a television writer. Four years later, shes hit the jackpot when she gets The Call: the sitcom she wrote, The Next Best Thing, has gotten the green light, and Ruthies going to be the show-runner. But her dreams of Hollywood happiness are threatened by demanding actors, number-crunching executives, an unrequited crush on a boss, and her grandmothers...
108) The button box
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Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A child examines the many different buttons in Grandma's button box.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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Lily Rosewood has lived with her grandmother since her dad's death a year ago. She and Gram have always been close--Gram's role as chair of their family's luxury coat business has inspired Lily's love of fashion, and Lily hopes to follow in Gram's footsteps one day. Then Gram dies suddenly, and Lily's world is upended. Gram's quarter of a billion dollar fortune is missing, and Lily has been banned from the manor she and Gram shared. But Gram has always...
110) Tea & treachery
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Pub. Date
2020.
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When real estate developer Jack Ford--who was trying to drive her and her grandmother, Rose, out of business--is found dead on Rose's property, Lily, the owner of a traditional English tearoom, discovers that Ford was brewing trouble all over town as she tries to clear Rose's name.
111) The Witches
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Nine-year-old Luke finds that saving the world from witches is a tall order for a boy who has been turned into a mouse.
112) The switch
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
After Leena and Eileen, her seventy-nine year old grandmother, decide to switch homes for two months, they each discover that love can be found in the most unlikely places.
113) Minari
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
A tender and sweeping story about what roots people that follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, this film shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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"Is finding true love a calling or a curse? Even as a child in 1910, Sara Glikman knows her gift: she is a maker of matches and a seeker of soulmates. But among the pushcart-crowded streets of New York's Lower East Side, Sara's vocation is dominated by devout older men-men who see a talented female matchmaker as a dangerous threat to their traditions and livelihood. After making matches in secret for more than a decade, Sara must fight to take her...
115) Secrets, book 1
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Michelli family volume 1
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Long-hidden secrets unveiled at a lovely old villa. Antonia stared out the Studebaker's rear window as it sped away from her grandfather Quillan's Sonoma villa, leaving behind the vineyard that had been life to her family, a life now lost. The old villa needed what Rese Barrett could do as well as any man on the crew. Trained by the best, she had honed her skills with a passion for quality, an eye for detail, and no room for compromise. Renovation...
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Baby-sitters Club (revised editions) volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
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Claudia's participation in the Baby-sitters Club is curtailed when Grandmother Mimi suffers a stroke and Claudia finds herself "Mimi-sitting" and fighting more frequently with her sister.
117) Just Grandma and Me
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Pub. Date
[1983]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A trip to the beach with Grandma provides lots of fun and surprises.
118) Red Rider's hood
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Series
Dark fusion volume 2
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After learning that there are werewolves in his city, a sixteen-year-old is even more surprised to discover the identities of the hunters who drove them out decades earlier, but he soon infiltrates the Wolves gang to help destroy them for good.
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Rosa books (Vera B. Williams) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother saves dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.
120) Dead and breakfast
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Merry Ghost Inn mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Melanie West is getting her life back on track after a messy divorce when her grandmother, Liza Harris, asks her to open a B&B with her. Together, Liza and Melanie purchase a purportedly haunted mansion on the Oregon coast and jump right into clearing out the cobwebs. But while attempting to remove wallpaper in an upstairs bedroom, the new B&B owners stumble upon a very real skeleton in their closet. The police suspect the skeleton is that of the...