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Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"Celebrate the fun that grandparents and grandkids can get up to in this action-packed undersea adventure--a companion picture book to Paul McCartney's bestseller Hey Grandude"--
42) Ma©łanaland
Author
Lexile measure
650L
Description
Twelve-year-old Max, who loves the legend Buelo tells him about a mythical gatekeeper who can guide brave travelers on a journey into tomorrow, sets out on a dangerous quest to discover if he is true of heart and what the future holds, armed with a treasured compass, a mysterious stone rubbing, and Buelo's legend as his only guides.
43) Home sweet motel
Author
Series
Welcome to Wonderland volume 1
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old P.T. Wilkie may be the greatest storyteller alive. But he knows one thing for a fact: the Wonderland Motel is the best place a kid could ever live! All-you-can-eat poolside ice cream! A snack machine in the living room! A frog slide! A giant rampaging alligator! (Okay, that last one may or may not be made up.) There's only one thing the Wonderland doesn't have, though--customers. And if the Wonderland doesn't get them soon, P.T. and...
Author
Lexile measure
AD 640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a young girl is asked where she's from--where she's really from--she's no longer as she was. She decides to turn to her dear abuelo for some help with this ever-persistent question. But he doesn't quite give her the answer she expects."--Page [2] of cover.
45) Grandpa Green
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 530L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A child explores the ordinary life of his extraordinary great-grandfather, as expressed in his topiary garden.
46) The good thieves
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First US edition.
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1920s New York City, a young girl with a deformed foot recruits her new friends, a female pickpocket and two circus performers, to help recover an emerald from her grandfather's mansion in upstate New York after he loses his home to an unscrupulous tycoon." -- Provided by publisher.
48) Circus Mirandus
Author
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When he realizes that his grandfather's stories of an enchanted circus are true, Micah Tuttle sets out to find the mysterious Circus Mirandus--and to use its magic to save his grandfather's life."--
Author
Publisher
MIT Kids Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Ada knows that the best place for star-gazing is on the island in Maine where she vacations with her grandparents. By day, she tracks osprey in the trees, paddles a kayak, and hunts for shells. But she's most in her element when the sun goes down and the stars blink to life. Will the fog this year foil her plans, or will her grandfather find a way to shine a spotlight on the vast puzzle of the universe ... until the weather turns?"--
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.--
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
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...
54) 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.
55) 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" --
56) 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...
57) 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.
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.
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.