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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: She's a portrait artist whose paintings alter people's bodies, which is a talent some would kidnap, blackmail, and worse to control. Guarding that secret is the only way to keep her younger sister safe now that their parents are gone. But one frigid night, the governor's wife discovers the truth and threatens to expose Myra is she does not complete a special portrait that would resurrect the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OLSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC OLSJuster, 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
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC JUSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JUSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JUSReidy, 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
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE REIMahmood, Imran
Summary: Someone is guilty. For the last seventeen years, Harry and Zara King's lives have revolved around their only daughter, Sophie. One day, Sophie leaves the house and doesn't come home. Six weeks later, the police are no closer to finding her than when they started. Harry and Zara have questioned everyone who has ever had any connection to Sophie, to no avail. Except there's one house on their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MAHKelley, Ceece
Summary: "A guardian angel sibling sends a well-wishing message to the newest addition of their family. But how is it delivered? Filled with whimsical illustrations and a touch of magic, Rainbow Letters celebrates rainbow babies--children born after pregnancy or infant loss--while capturing the beauty of life and beyond."--Amazon website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soaring Kite Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KELKhan, Zainab
Summary: "Noura can't wait for the sun to go down. The month of Ramadan is almost over, and she and Mama and Papa are headed for the hills for a moonsighting picnic. It would be truly special if Noura's first fast ended with a glimpse of a silvery crescent in the night sky. If the moon stays hidden, that means one more long day before Noura gets to put on her sparkly new dress and the joyful Eid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KHABrickman, Sophie
Summary: "It takes a village...just not this one. Annie Lewin is at the end of her rope. She's a mother of three young children, her workaholic husband is never around, and the vicious competition for spots in New York City's kindergartens is heating up. A New York Times journalist-turned-parenting-advice-columnist for an internet start-up, Annie can't help but judge the insanity of it all-even as she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publisheres 2024
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Summary: Paris, 2019. An apartment in Belleville. Following a miscarriage and a breakdown, Anna, a psychoanalyst, finds herself unable to return to work. Instead, she obsesses over a kitchen renovation and befriends a new neighbor―a younger woman called Clémentine who has just moved into the building and is part of a radical feminist collective. Paris, 1972. The same apartment in Belleville. Florence and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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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 GRAMcMann, Lisa
Summary: Five children who are the offspring of supernatural criminals and who have special abilities of their own leave their isolated tropical home and head to the city of Estero, where they hope to find their parents and the treasure they hid years ago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCMAlmond, David
Summary: "In medieval Ireland, a boy named Kevin is taken to a monastery by parents who can no longer afford to keep him, though they promise to bring him home when times are better. Meanwhile, Kevin works for the monks, who teach him hymns, prayers, and reading. He is content, though happiest when his work is done and he can roam the countryside, befriending wild creatures. As he grows older, the monks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press
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Summary: Present Day: Keaton Smith is desperate for a fresh start. So when her mother needs someone to put her childhood home in Beaufort, North Carolina, on the market—the home that Keaton didn’t know existed until now—she jumps at the chance to head south. But the moment she steps foot inside the abandoned house, she’s confronted with secrets about grandparents who died before she was born. And as she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARMilledge, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Box 2022
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Summary: During the course of a day spent with Grampa, Owen learns silly dances to fight the urge to pee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 VIVMills, 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: 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 CREJames, 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 JAMAbe, 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 ABEFaruqi, Saadia
Summary: When Yasmin discovers an injured cat she immediately slips into the role of vet to care for the animal with the assistance of her grandmother, while her grandfather tries to contact the owner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2024
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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 SOSZalben, Jane Breskin
Summary: "When Christmas and the first night of Chanukah occur on the same day, all of Sophie and Max's grandparents come over to partake in both Jewish and Christian traditions together"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2024
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Summary: "Catalina is trying to work out her own life as she leaves her undocumented family behind to enter Harvard. Suffering from bouts of PTSD, she struggles to connect to her new world just as she struggled to make sense of her old one. She infiltrates the subcultures of elite undergrads-internships and college newspapers, parties and secret societies-and observes them like an anthropologist, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC VILWilson, Kerilynn
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