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1121) The mastermind plot
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1904, eleven-year-old Suzanna is delighted with her grandmother's invitation to spend time in Boston and thrilled to help her famous uncle investigate a series of arsons, but much less pleased to be enrolled her in Miss Lydia Doucette's Academy for Young Ladies.
1122) Garden walk
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 25 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Take a stroll through a magnificent garden and serene forest with Grammy and her grandkids and find out what there is to discover around every turn. Beautiful illustrations and adorable rhymes will guide readers as they learn to identify different kinds of flowers, fruits and berries, trees, birds, insects, and animals. Pick and snack on fruits in the garden, and then swing in a huge tree right after you have a picnic in the forest"--
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
20 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A little girl visiting her grandmother in an Indian village discovers the house marks--also known as rangoli or kolam--that Indian women create in rice, paint, and other media, and learns how to make her own pattern in her city apartment.
1124) Give and take
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Family has always been important to twelve-year-old Maggie: a trapshooter, she is coached by her dad and cheered on by her mom. But her grandmother's recent death leaves a giant hole in Maggie's life, one which she begins to fill with an assortment of things: candy wrappers, pieces of tassel from Nana's favorite scarf, milk cartons, sticks...all stuffed in cardboard boxes under her bed. Then her parents decide to take in a foster infant. But anxiety...
1125) My grandma and I
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
Two children describe the wonderful times they have with their grandmother doing such things as working in the garden, building sandcastles, and going to the movies.
1126) Grandma kisses
Author
Publisher
Tommy Nelson, an imprint of Thomas Nelson Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Grandma time is lots of fun and full of love! Join these delightful little ones as they enjoy time with their grandmas--playing games, reading books, and eating the best cookies in the world! This little book will have grandmas and their little ones smiling and snuggling as they read together." -- Page [4] cover.
1127) Grandma wishes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
There's a special star in the nighttime sky that only grandma see...
Author
Publisher
Charmz
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
81 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen year-old Amy Von Brandt's life is upside down. In order to forget Nicolas who has just broken-up with her, her bad grades and the possible devilish fiancé of her mother slash principal, she escapes to Grandma Von Brandts farm. Plenty of Mother Nature and peace and quiet are on the agenda but listening to chirping sparrows, counting ants, observing the mating dance of earthworms ... gets old (and depressing) real fast! But not even Amy can...
1130) This is just a test
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1983 seventh-grader David Da-Wei Horowitz has a lot to worry about--his bar mitzvah is coming soon, his Jewish and Chinese grandmothers argue about everything, his teammates for the upcoming trivia contest, Scott and Hector, do not like each other, he is beginning to notice girls, and Scott has persuaded him to begin digging a fallout shelter just in case the Cold War heats up.
1132) Autumn in the vineyard
Author
Series
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Frankie Baudouin has a hundred reasons not to trust Nate DeLuca. First, he's a DeLuca. Second, he kissed her--in front of the entire town--and then never called. Oh, and he's after her land. Sorrento Ranch is Frankie's last chance to prove to her family--and to herself--that she has what it takes to be an award-winning winemaker. And she will stop at nothing to ensure her success--even if it means playing nice with the starched, sophisticated, and...
1133) Grandma's gift
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
The author describes Christmas at his grandmother's apartment in Spanish Harlem the year she introduced him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Diego Velazquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja, which has had a profound and lasting effect on him.
1134) Dragonfly eyes
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Ah Mei has always been close to her French grandmother, Nainai, and is proud to look like her. But in their home city of Shanghai, many people are suspicious of their European heritage and looks. Politics and war make 1960s Shanghai a difficult place to grow up, especially when the family silk business is given over to the government and they are left with their beloved home and little else. Ah Mei and her grandmother suffer, but they are resourceful...
1135) La abuela
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
15 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm.
Language
Español
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It is 1969 in Spanish Harlem, and fourteen-year-old Evelyn Serrano is trying hard to break free from her conservative Puerto Rican surroundings, but when her activist grandmother comes to stay and the neighborhood protests start, things get a lot more complicated--and dangerous.
1137) Los discos de mi abuela
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
Español
Description
The author describes his boyhood summers spent at his grandmother's apartment in Spanish Harlem where she intoduced him to the sounds and steps of the merengue and the conga and told him stories of Puerto Rico.
1139) Nana's garden
Author
Publisher
Clever Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"This delightful story of one child's day with her grandparents is a magical gardening adventure. There's time for little ones to learn their colors and count to five along the way" -- Page [4] cover.
1140) Annie's war
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
vii, 183 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1946, imaginary conversations with President Truman help ten-year-old Annie cope with having to live with her grandmother in Walla Walla, Washington, her uncle's prejudice toward her grandmother's black tenant, and her intense desire for news of her father, a pilot in the Army Air Corps who was reported missing in action.