Yingst, DK
Summary: "When Karen adopts a grandmother from Stoneybrook Manor, she has more grandmas than anyone she knows -- five! Karen thinks that is very special. But Karen's new grandmother is so different! Grandma B makes Karen listen to old music, and she teaches Karen funny dances, like the foxtrot"--Inside dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2024
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Summary: "Sixth grader Andy Zhou grapples with fitting in, befriends a bully, drifts apart from his childhood best friend, and gets to know grandparents who have just moved from Shanghai to live with his family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHEPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: "It's a surprise visit! Ana & Andrew are excited when Grandma comes to visit. While she is there, the family tours the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and learns about important African American achievements"--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLAJames, Anna (Anna Lois)
Summary: When eleven-year-old Tilly Pages joins Oskar and his family on a Christmas trip to Paris, she and her friend bookwander into the land of fairy tales, where someone--or something--is causing chaos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC JAMMills, Claudia
Summary: Twelve-year-old Sonnet grapples with the loss of her grandfather's apple orchard, disrupted by a housing development, and forms an uneasy relationship with her neighbor Zeke after they discover a family secret that has the potential to disrupt Sonnet's family or bring about healing and growth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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Summary: The reader has a potion that can make his or her grandparents do whatever he or she wants them to - you get to choose from 8 different endings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chooseco 2010
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MONAbe, Julie
Summary: "Tessa Miyata has never fit in. When she and her two sisters are told they will be staying at their grandparents in Japan, Tessa is thrilled. A summer in Japan could be her chance to go on an adventure worthy of impressing her classmates back home. Her hopes are quickly dashed when, all too soon, she realizes that life in Japan is just like being in California: her sisters are old enough to go...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ABESateren, Shelley Swanson
Summary: Tabitha Catarina's world revolves around cats, and there are certainly plenty of them at Tabby Towers, her grandparents' cat hotel, but she would really like to have her Himalayan cat, Bootsie, with her too--trouble is that Bootsie proves to be unexpectedly and implacably hostile to the other cats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE SATGray, Shelley Shepard
Summary: Four siblings leave their divorced, lapsed-Amish father for the stability and sense of family provided by their Old Order grandparents in a peaceful small-town in Ohio.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAManushkin, Fran
Summary: Katie is nervous about a sleepover at her grandparents' house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2010
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Summary: When spring arrives, Yasmin and her Baba plant a garden but Yasmin's flower seedling keeps wilting until her Nani sits in the sun, revealing to Yasmin what the plant needs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, A Capstone Imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FARCreech, Sharon
Summary: After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC CRERussell, Erin
Summary: When Hana's grandparents visit, Hana decides to cook a meal that represents both her Korean and Southern heritages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RUSSosa, Daniela
Summary: "While spending the summer with his grandparents, who never do anything fun, a boy finds a suitcase filled with photos of people on the coolest adventures, but who could they be?"--Colophon page.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SOSReidy, Jean
Summary: "Celebrates the special bond between grandparents and their grandchildren."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction ReidyCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE REICosta, Dela
Summary: When Isla sets out to help her pastry champion grandparents in the annual Sol Bake-Off, the absence of ingredients and the animal's silence leads her to uncover the creatures' own celebration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2023
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Summary: "Anna Hibiscus is back from Canada, and so much has changed while she was away! Double and Trouble have learned to run, and Grandfather has gotten older, too. One of the chickens has laid eggs, and Anna hatches her very own chick--Snow White!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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Summary: When twelve-year-old Lyndie and her parents must move to her grandparents' home in small-town Tennessee in 1985, having to keep all family problems private only adds to their problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SHEMacLachlan, Patricia.
Summary: While spending Christmas at their grandparents' farm, Lily becomes convinced that her younger brother Liam is right about White Cow being lonely and helps him seek a companion for her, leaving little time for Christmas preparations or reading.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2009
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Summary: On Christmas Eve, a determined little girl overcomes thick fog and hazardous weather to visit her grandparents, relying on creativity and the magic of familial bonds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Ella loves visiting her grandparents in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina every summer, and this year her grandfather announces they are going catfish noodling--but Ella is unsure about catching a fish with her bare hands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CHAJuster, Norton
Summary: Looking through the kitchen window, a little girl and her doting grandparents watch stars, play games, and, most importantly, say hello and goodbye.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michael di Capua Books/Hyperion Books for Children 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Caldecott Juster 2005Copies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JUSWells, Rosemary.
Summary: For the traditional Japanese celebration of Girls' Day, Yoko receives a special gift from her grandparents in Japan: a doll named Miki that has been passed down through her family for generations. Yoko is so excited to share Miki with the class that she disobeys her mother, who tells her, "Miki is too delicate to take to school."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Wells 2010Buckey, Sarah Masters
Summary: Traveling to Paris in 1907 with Grandmary and the Admiral, Samantha and her adopted sister Nellie suspect that someone is trying to harm their beloved grandfather and stop his secret government mission. Includes a glossary of French words and an "Inside Samantha's World" essay about tourism and international tensions in Europe in the early 1900s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Publishing 2015