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1) Ferris
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
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.
3) Supergran!
Author
Formats
Description
"When one family is besieged by illness, missing pets, mounds of dirty laundry and dishes, Supergran rushes in to help manage the chaos"--
Author
Publisher
Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Description
"It’s Joy’s first summer in her grandmother’s South Carolina garden—a rite of passage. In the midst of okra, spinach, and strawberries, Grammy teaches Joy that plants are friends with many uses. Herbs, for example, can be turned into medicine. There in Grammy’s abundant backyard, Joy learns to listen for the heartbeat of the earth and connect it to her own as she takes deep breaths and puts her intentions into the...
Author
Series
Celia Cleary volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
338 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Description
"Twelve-year-old Celia Cleary's first vision launches a quest to change her neighbor Jeffrey Johnson's fate"--
6) Remind me
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Eldon, a young elephant, accompanies and supports his grandmother, Big Ella, as she copes with memory loss.
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"From the award-winning author of Root Magic comes the story of a girl forced to spend the summer with a great-grandmother she's never met--only to discover she runs a school for Southern conjure magic"--
8) Summer walk
Author
Series
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 26 cm
Description
"Ramble through the woods, as you join Grammy and her favorite grandkids on a summer walk. Illustrations and rhymes will guide readers as they learn to identify twenty-six different insects. At day's end, discover how to create a caterpillar habitat"--
10) The walk
Author
Formats
Description
As a little girl accompanies her grandma on a walk to the polling station, members of their community join and the grandmother explains the importance of their journey.
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Battling writer's block, once-rising literary star Olivia Fitzgerald is offered a high-paying ghostwriting opportunity by a reclusive mega billionaire who wants her help in writing a book that reveals a shocking secret about his grandmother and Daphne duMaurier, trapping her in a gothic mystery of her own.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
264 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Description
"Sara Blum lives an idyllic life with her adoring parents in Vichy France. But her world comes crashing down when the Nazi occupation separates the family and forces the young Jewish girl into hiding. Her classmate Julien and his family will risk everything to ensure her survival, and, together, Sara and Julien manage to find beauty in a secret world of their creation." --book jacket
15) Maeve fly
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
By day, Maeve Fly works at the happiest place in the world as every child’s favorite ice princess. By the neon night glow of the Sunset Strip, Maeve haunts the dive bars with a drink in one hand and a book in the other, imitating her misanthropic literary heroes. But when Gideon Green - her best friend’s brother - moves to town, he awakens something dangerous within her, and the world she knows suddenly shifts beneath her feet.
16) Friend or UFO
Author
Series
Area 51 files volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
When Sky's grandmother is kidnapped, Sky discovers her secret life as an undercover FBAI agent, and embarks on a mission filled with puzzles, codes, and risky adventures to save her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"You love Grandma, and Grandma loves you! Love her by: sharing with her, helping her, cheering her on, and, most of all, giving her great big hugs. Celebrate all the moments that can make grandmas feel special and cared for during Valentine's Day and beyond!" --publisher's website.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
129 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Sixth-grader Amalia learns many important life-lessons while spending Friday afternoons with her beloved grandmother, and the teaching goes on even after Abuelita's sudden death as Amalia finds a way to connect with relatives and a friend who has moved away.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 26 cm
Description
"Un delicioso libro ilustrado sobre las formas en que los plátanos dan forma a la cultura, la comunidad, y la familia Latina/o/x/e, contado a;vs de las experiencias de una;a en la cocina con su abuela." --
Esme learns the cultural significance of plantains while cooking alongside her grandmother.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
En este divertido libro ilustrado sobre las supersticiones,¿podrá Miguel aprender a crear su propia suerte y librarse de la mala suerte antes de que sea demasiado tarde?
Miguel's grandmother warns him that opening an umbrella inside the house will bring bad luck that will follow him everywhere.
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