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81) 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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sent to Maine to spend the summer with her grandfather, India Finch has just learned that she is part-mermaid, and met her kin among the Ice Tribe, so when she finds out that someone is harming sea creatures she wants to help--but discovering the truth can be dangerous, especially when the threat comes from the Mer themselves.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Family Fang meets The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry in this literary mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician, left behind a dangerous equation for her to track down--and protect--before others can get their hands on it. Just days after mathematician and family patriarch Isaac Severy dies of an apparent suicide, his adopted granddaughter Hazel, owner of a struggling Seattle bookstore, receives...
85) Flashlight
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Lexile measure
490L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Marie is afraid to sleep overnight in her grandparents' living room until her grandfather gives her a flashlight so that she can see in the dark.
Author
Series
Fourteenth goldfish volume 2
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When thirteen-year-old Ellie's Grandpa Melvin, a world-renowned scientist in the body of a fourteen-year-old boy, comes for an extended visit, he teaches her that experimenting--and failing--is part of life.--
87) Terrible storm
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
500L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A child's two grandfathers relate their boyhood experiences of the "terrible blizzard of 1888," during which each was stuck for three days doing what he disliked the most.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1993
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Heart of the Wilderness, young Kendra Marty goes to live with her grandfather after her parents die in a river accident. But what can a trapper living in the backwoods offer a small child? Will Kendra ever be ready to face the scary and confusing world far from the wilderness she loves?
89) Finding Orion
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rion Kwirk comes from a rather odd family. His mother named him and his sisters after her favorite constellations, and his father makes funky-flavored jellybeans for a living. One sister acts as if she's always on stage, and the other is a walking dictionary. But no one in the family is more odd than Rion's grandfather, Papa Kwirk. He's the kind of guy who shows up on his motorcycle only on holidays handing out crossbows and stuffed squirrels as...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fionn Boyle, terrified of the sea, must spend the summer with this older sister, Tara, and their grandfather on Arranmore, an island that has been known to make people disappear and seems to be restless again.
Author
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
92) Grumpy New Year
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Daisy, a young Chinese American girl, is excited to be celebrating the Lunar New Year with her Yeh-Yeh in China, but at first she is too grumpy from lack of sleep to enjoy the activities he has planned. Includes recipes for fried Jiao Zi (dumplings) and Eight Treasure Rice.
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...
95) We are okay
Author
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After picking up and leaving everything behind in California, eighteen-year-old Marin, with the help of her former friend, must confront her grief and the truths that caused her to flee her home" --
96) The birdwatchers
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Intrigued by her granddad's stories of what happens when she goes birdwatching, Jess decides to accompany him one day.
97) 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.
98) Gigi and Ojiji
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Gigi can't wait for her Ojiji--Japanese grandpa--to move in. Gigi plans lots of things to do with him, like playing tag, reading books, and teaching Roscoe, the family dog, new tricks. But her plans don't work out quite the way she'd hoped. And her grandpa doesn't seem to like Roscoe. Will Gigi find a way to connect with her Ojiji?"--
99) Our favorite day
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 470L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows Papa and his granddaughter as they spend another Thursday together.
Author
Series
Hank Zipzer volume 9
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
With the help of his grandfather, underachieving fifth-grader Hank Zipzer finally discovers that he is good at ping-pong, but he is afraid to tell his classmates for fear of being ridiculed.