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Juster, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michael di Capua Books/Hyperion Books for Children 2005

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Caldecott Juster 2005

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC JUS

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JUS

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JUS

Mills, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024

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Yingst, DK

3 holds on 2 copies

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2024

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Bontigao, Lynnor

Summary: "Nora loves spending summers with Lola at her sari-sari store, a treasure trove filled with everything you could need, from hair accessories to toys, creamy yema to sour tamarind candy. And this year, Nora is big enough to help her grandmother. But when a heat wave strikes and no one comes to the store, Nora worries that she won't get to spend the rest of the summer with her lola -- until she...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BON

Sosa, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SOS

Cheng, Jack

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"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHE

Platt, 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.

Format: text

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 PLA

Abe, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ABE

Ransom, Candice F.

Summary: A girl spends a very special day with her grandparents, going to the museum and the park, and ending up helping her grandfather paint a new birdhouse.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR Orange Ransom

Atinuke

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!"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023

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Costa, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2023

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Reidy, Jean

Summary: "Celebrates the special bond between grandparents and their grandchildren."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Reidy

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REI

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE REI

Platt, 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 [2].

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR PURPLE SPANISH PLA

Viva, Frank

Summary: During the course of a day spent with Grampa, Owen learns silly dances to fight the urge to pee.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 VIV

Russell, Erin

Summary: When Hana's grandparents visit, Hana decides to cook a meal that represents both her Korean and Southern heritages.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RUS

Smith, Heather

Summary: "In this illustrated picture book, a child helps their grandparents deal with a difficult change in abilities."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SMI

Estrada, Isabel

Summary: In the 1970s mariachi was only for boys, but when Tuchi stumbles across her nana's guitarrón she decides to audition for her school's mariachi ensemble.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Wld Cult Estrada

Li, Christina

Summary: "Thanks to her Ye-Ye's epic scavenger hunts, thirteen-year-old Ruby Chu knows San Francisco like the back of her hand. But after his death, she feels lost, and it seems like everyone--from her best friends to her older sister--is abandoning her. After Ruby gets in major trouble at school, her parents decide she has to spend the summer at a local senior center, with her grandmother, Nai-Nai, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LI

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LI

Makatini, Bella

Summary: Danny spends a week with his Grandpa, who tells Danny about one animal from his homeland each day that he is there.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis Publishing Inc. 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MAK

Mayer, Mercer

Summary: Collects six stories starring Little Critter, in which he trains for a race, builds a snowman, spends the weekend with his grandparents, and works on a project for the science fair.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MAY

Yee, Lisa

Summary: "Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YEE

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YEE

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YEE

Milledge, Sas

Summary: Orla O'Reilly, the youngest in a long line of hedge witches, is compelled to return home after the death of her grandmother, Mamo. In the wake of her Mamo's passing, seas are impossible to fish, crops have soured, even Jo Manalo's attic is taken over by a poltergeist! And to make matter worse it appears that the cause is Mamo, or her mislaid bones that is. Can Orla shoulder the responsibility...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Box 2022

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Harbridge, Paul

Summary: "A picture book about a girl who spends the summer with her family at a lake and learns to become more self-reliant."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAR

Johnson, Leah

Summary: Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JOH

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JOH

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