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Publisher
CBS Worldwide Inc
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In I sing the body electric, a girl comes to understand that a grandmother can be a tender, thoughtful, caring, loving woman, even if she is a robot. In Long distance call, a young boy uses a toy telephone to talk with his dead grandmother. In Lonely, a murderer is sentenced to solitary confinement on a distant asteroid. In Probe 7, over and out, the lone survivors of two annihilated planets must begin new lives together on a new world.
4) Grandma
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
Elle, who has just gotten through breaking up with her girlfriend when Elle's granddaughter Sage unexpectedly shows up needing $600 bucks before sundown. Temporarily broke, Grandma Elle and Sage spend the day trying to get their hands on the cash as their unannounced visits to old friends and flames end up rattling skeletons and digging up secrets.
Author
Series
Fly Guy volume 4
Formats
Description
After accidentally swallowing her grandson's pet fly, Grandma tries to retrieve it by consuming progressively larger animals.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
89 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm..
Description
Nine-year-old Tori is thrilled to be spending the summer at her grandmother's ranch, even if she has to share a room with her younger sister Miranda, who is eight--there is a beautiful, but very nervous, new pony called Jewel that she would love to ride, but her grandmother feels that this pony is just too much for a child.
7) 13 treasures
Author
Series
13 treasures trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
355 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Bedeviled by evil fairies that only she can see, thirteen-year-old Tanya is sent to stay with her cold and distant grandmother at Elvesden Manor, where she and the caretaker's son solve a disturbing mystery that leads them to the discovery that Tanya's life is in danger.
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse.
11) Ferris
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 21 cm
Appears on list
Description
During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
93 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
When Cinderella's new grandmother-in-law arrives for a visit, Cinderella seems to get everything wrong, especially when her guest wants to see Cinderella in the sapphire tiara that was a wedding gift, and which Cinderella cannot find.
13) The witches
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The tale of a young orphaned boy who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered her fellow cronies from around the globe, undercover, to carry out her nefarious...
14) Sweet Buttercup
Author
Series
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
90 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
While staying at their grandmother's ranch, sisters Tori and Miranda are practicing to compete in different events at the local horse show--but Ashley, a rude and conceited girl who is stabling her pony at the ranch, is constantly criticizing everthing, their costumes, their ponies, Jewel and Buttercup, and generally draining the fun out of the summer.
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Appears on list
Description
Stymied by her unfinished family tree assignment for school, a young girl seeks Grandma's counsel and learns about her ancestors, the consequences of slavery, and the history of Black resistance in the United States.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
273 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"In Kenny Wright's active imagination he's a world famous superhero, but in the real world he's a sixth grade 'Grandma's Boy' whose struggles to fit in at his Washington D.C. inner city school will put his grades and family loyalty to the test"--
19) My paati's saris
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
Another exciting day with Paati begins with a host of fun activities done in preparation for tonight’s party; threading flowers into garlands for decoration, going to the market, and helping her in the kitchen with the scent of sambar in the air. Through it all the boy finds comfort in Paati’s sari, whether he’s wrapped in its colors for dress-up or clutching its folds for comfort. Each sari holds a story—ones that speak to him, but most important...
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