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41) Yucky worms
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
While helping Grandma in the garden, a child learns about the important role of the earthworm in helping plants grow.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
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DEN - Kids + Teens: Asian / Pacific American Heritage Month
MCL - Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
MCL - John Newbery Medal
MCL - Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
MCL - John Newbery Medal
Description
Would you make a deal with a magical tiger? This uplifting story brings Korean folklore to life as a girl goes on a quest to unlock the power of stories and save her grandmother. Some stories refuse to stay bottled up. When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni's Korean folktales arrives, prompting Lily to unravel a secret family history. Long, long ago, Halmoni stole something from the...
43) Nana in the city
Author
Language
English
Description
A young boy is frightened by how busy and noisy the city is when he goes there to visit his Nana, but she makes him a fancy red cape that keeps him from being scared as she shows him how wonderful a place it is.
Author
Series
The sisters Grimm volume 2
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Although filled with anger over her parents' disappearance, eleven-year-old Sabrina Grimm--along with her grandmother, sister, and several fairy-tale characters--tries to discover who has killed her teacher.
46) Tending roses
Author
Series
Tending roses volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Kate and her husband and baby son move to her grandmother's Missouri farm in an effort to influence the grandmother to move to a nursing home, Kate is helped by the discovery of her grandmother's journal containing stories that make Kate see her life, and her grandmother, in a completely new way.
47) My Nana and me
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young girl and her grandmother enjoy a day filled with tea parties, hide-and-seek, stories, and plenty of love.
48) Staying together
Author
Series
Main Street volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's been two years since Flora and Ruby moved to Camden Falls. They've always gotten along as friends and as sisters, but now they're starting to fight all the time. Nobody--not their friends, not their grandmother--knows why, or what to do. In the end, it might take a whole town to get them back together and make them realize how much they've grown up since their parents died and their lives changed so much. Staying together isn't easy--but with...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mimi is a writer and when she finds that some of her favorite words for natural things, such as wren, violet, and dandelion, are disappearing she appoints her granddaughter, Brooke, as the keeper of wild words, and shows her how to bring them to life by knowing, appreciating, and using the things they stand for.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"T. Kingfisher's A House With Good Bones is a contemporary Southern Gothic from a master of modern horror that explores the deep, dark roots of family and in which grandma's ghost haunting your house may be the least of your worries. In this ordinary North Carolina suburb, family secrets are always in bloom. Samantha Montgomery pulls into the driveway of her family home to find a massive black vulture perched on the mailbox, staring at the house....
53) Grandma's purse
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When Grandma Mimi comes to visit, her granddaughter cannot wait to see what treasures she has hidden in her purse."--
Author
Series
Sisters Grimm volume 2
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Although filled with anger over her parents' disappearance, eleven-year-old Sabrina Grimm--along with her grandmother, sister, and several fairy-tale characters--tries to discover who has killed her teacher.
Author
Series
Rosa books (Vera B. Williams) volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rosa plays her accordion with her friends in the Oak Street Band and earns money to help her mother with expenses while her grandmother is sick.
Author
Series
Fairy realm volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Jessies searches for her ill grandmother's missing charm bracelet, she is led to a magical world and finds she has a reason and right to be there.
58) The summer book
Author
Language
English
Description
"This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia's grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland."--Publisher's description.
59) Parakeet
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A darkly funny and warm-hearted novel about a young woman whose dead grandmother (in the form of a parakeet) warns her not to marry and sends her out to find an estranged loved one"--
Author
Series
Sisters Grimm volume 4
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When the fairy-tale detectives rush to New York City hoping to find an Everafter who can cure Puck, they trigger a chain of events that includes a murder mystery, and learn many new things about their mother who, along with their father, is still in an enchanted sleep.
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