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5) White bird
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Tells the story of Julian's Grandmère's childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
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268 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine Iveliz needs to feel like herself.
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La abuela de Mia viene a vivir con Mia y sus padres. Cuando Mia eomparte con ella su cuento favorito a la hora de dormir, descubre que la abuela no entiende inglés. Mia la ayuda con el inglés y a la vez ella aprende algunas palabras en español. Pero la abuela no conoce suficientes palabras en inglés para compartir las historias de familia con su nieta. Un dia, Mia ve un loro en una tienda de mascotas y descubre la manera de ayudar a su abuela....
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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216 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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Twelve-year-old Nora has always dreamed of going to Paris with her grandmother, but when her grandmother dies it seems like Paris is gone with her--until Nora finds three airline tickets in a trunk, and sets out to persuade her mother to use them.
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Ballet Cat volume 3
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2017
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Ballet Cat and her cousin, Goat, try to outdo one another while putting on show for their grandmother.
14) Unbecoming
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Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.
15) Leave me alone
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Grandmother wants so badly to be left alone to finish the knitting for her grandchildren that she leaves her tiny home and her big family to journey to the moon and beyond to find peace and quiet to finish her knitting.
16) Grandma's farm
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Grandma Ginny and Timmy take a trip to visit the site of the family farm, where the old house and some rickety buildings still stand. Timmy had visited with Grandpa before and learned all about his tractor, but Grandma has her own stories to tell of planting the fields, harvesting the crops, and feeding the animals. Guided by Grandma's farm diary and her fond memories, Timmy and Grandma tour the land and talk about what life was like back then.
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Winnie Zeng volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm.
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Armed with her fledgling powers, a magic cookbook, and the mentorship of a talking rabbit, sixth-grader Winnie Zeng must embrace her heritage and the powers of her ancestors to save her town from an evil spirit of Chinese legend.
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2019.
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While true-crime afficionado Ellery and her twin brother are staying with their grandmother in a Vermont community known for murder, a new friend goes missing and Ellery may be next.
Ellery es nueva en Echo Ridges, pero ya lo sabe todo sobre el pueblo. Aqu�i, a veces, las chicas desaparecen... y sus asesinatos siguen sin resolverse. Aunque las clases no han empezado a�un, la futura reina del baile ha sido amenazada y una chica ha desaparecido...
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"When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni's Korean folktales arrives. The tiger offers Lily a deal- if Lily will open her grandmother's star jars and return what she stole, the tiger will heal her grandmother. But deals with tigers are never what they seem! With the help of her sister and her new friend Ricky, Lily must find her voice . . . and the courage to face a tiger. Tae Keller,...
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Piñata Books
Pub. Date
c2013
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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Inspired by a patchwork quilt, Toña and her grandmother use vacant patches of land in their neighborhood to grow vegetables, then form The Patchwork Garden Club to encourage other children to follow their example.
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