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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
420L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a hurricane threatens to harm the underwater homes of the merpeople, it is up to India Finch, a part-human/part-mermaid teenager, to warn her ocean friends. The mer decide to seek calmer waters, and as they travel, they are attacked by a giant squid, with India at the center of harm's way. Gravely injured, India depends on the merfolks' willingness to risk their own safety to get her ashore where her injuries can be treated. Will the prejudice...
43) Cowgirl grit
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sydney Todachine is looking forward to a summer on the beaches of San Diego before starting sixth-grade, but instead she finds herself on her Grandfather's ranch on the Navajo Nation reservation with no wi-fi, and while a couple of the kids are pretty nice, her cousin Hadley is as nasty as ever--but Sydney bonds with a spirited horse called Midnight, and together they start training at night for the upcoming rodeo.
44) The Wanderer
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
305 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat, which, along with uncles and another cousin, is en route to visit their grandfather in England.
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
42 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 x 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Family love, faith, and singing angels led by Grandpa playing his penny whistle all come together to help rambunctious Little Boy James to recover from his accident.
46) Bartleby speaks!
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
As he grows from infancy to three-years of age, Bartleby Huddle remains quiet, not speaking a word, until the day Grampy Huddle arrives and discovers the solution.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
450L
Physical Desc
46 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
After Gus, who would rather play outside than practice music, does not do too well at his piano recital, his grandfather shows him how music can be fun.
49) A map of days
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Description
"After having saved the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back in Florida with his peculiar friends, where they set out on a journey across America to discover the truth about Jacob's grandfather"--
50) War stories
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
There are two things Trevor loves more than anything else: playing war-based video games, and his great-grandfather Jacob, who is a true-blue, bona fide war hero. At the height of the war, Jacob helped liberate a small French village, and was given a hero's welcome upon his return to America. Now it's decades later, and Jacob wants to retrace the steps he took during the war--from training to invasion to the village he is said to have saved. Trevor...
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Over the course of a year, a young child and their dog watch kingfishers by the river with Grandpa. As spring turns to summer and autumn to winter, the kingfishers raise a family, while Grandpa teaches his grandchild about the power of nature and the circle of life.
53) Two at the zoo
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A grandfather and grandchild go to the zoo, where they count animals from one to ten.
54) Stand tall
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tree, a six-foot-three-inch twelve-year-old, copes with his parents' recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (36 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
April 1, 1946 - an enormous tsunami wave strikes Hilo, Hawai'i, causing death and destruction. Even those islanders who are fortunate to have survived find their lives forever altered. Young Kimo loves his grandfather very much - they go everywhere together, sharing island stories and experiences. But there is one story his grandfather has yet to share and that is the reason behind their yearly pilgrimage to Laupahoehoe Point. Here, in silent remembrance,...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
228 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Pearl and her popular, thirteen-year-old sister, Lexie, do not get along very well, but when their grandfather moves in and the girls have to share a room, they must find common ground.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
After recently moving to the United States, a young girl reminisces about her time spent helping her Lolo run his sari-sari store in the Philippines, and uses some of his wisdom to make herself feel more at home.
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When a grandfather walking through the woods on Christmas Eve becomes lost in a snowstorm, the brightly dressed teddy bear he is bringing home for his granddaughter becomes instrumental in his rescue.
59) The outside dog
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
62 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Marisol, who lives in Puerto Rico, wants a dog very much but her grandfather will not let her have one, until a skinny mutt wins him over.
60) Jody's beans
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
AD 520L
Physical Desc
29 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
From spring to fall with the help of her grandfather, Jody learns to plant, care for, harvest, prepare, and eat some runner beans.