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Author
Publisher
Flipturn Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations, colour portraits ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her Nana hold a special bond that blooms in the surroundings of Nanas magical garden. Then one day, the girl finds many weeds in the garden. She soon discovers that her beloved Nana has Alzheimers Disease; an illness that affects an adult brain with tangles that get in the way of thoughts, kind of like how weeds get in the way of flowers. As time passes, the weeds grow thicker and her Nana declines, but the girl accepts the difficult...
83) Words between us
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
When Felix's grandmother comes from Vietnam to stay with his family in the United States, Felix realizes that he can help Grandma by teaching her English.
Author
Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 520L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's granny's birthday, but her little granddaughter wonders why, because of the lines on her face, she looks so worried! But they are simply wrinkles, and grandma is very fond of her lines because they are where she keeps her memories."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
380L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Aren't grandmas the best? The star of I Love Pink! and I Love My Tutu! has so much fun with her grandma! Together, they bike and play games, they read and have tea parties . . . and dance parties! And, guess what? Her grandma even had a grandma once! And they liked to do a lot of the same things together, too."--Amazon.com.
Author
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this You Choose adventure, Rapunzel can be a lonely high school student, hoping to escape her grandmother's apartment to audition for the school musical; a professional gamer, isolated and at the mercy of her overbearing manager; or the adopted daughter of Dame Gothel, rumored to be a witch--the reader decides which plot to pursue.
87) Healer and witch
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sylvie and her mother and grandmother are beloved, trusted healers in their French village at the end of the Middle Ages, though some whisper that fifteen-year-old Sylvie and her grand-mère deal in more than herbs and medicines. Perhaps they're a bit...witchy? After her grandmother dies, and an attempt to use her untrained magic to heal her mother's grief yields tragic consequences, Sylvie leaves in search of a teacher. Accompanied by Martin, the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
450L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Peppa Pig's playgroup is having a pumpkin contest, but the pumpkin that Grandpa Pig helped Peppa grow in his greenhouse is so big they can't even move it! Will Peppa and her pumpkin make it to the contest in time?
89) Grandma and me
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
With simple rhyming text, a young child reflects on the many reasons they love their Grandmother.
91) Firefly summer
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For as long as Ryanna Stuart can remember, her summers have been spent with her father and his new wife. Just the three of them, structured, planned, quiet. But this summer is different. This summer, she's received a letter from her grandparents--grandparents neither she nor her dad have spoken to since her mom's death--inviting her to stay with them at an old summer camp in the Poconos. Ryanna accepts. She wants to learn about her mom. She wants...
92) Ice cream summer
Author
Lexile measure
AD 370L
Description
A little boy writes a letter to his grandfather about all the reading and studying he is doing this summer--but all his activities revolve around ice cream.
93) The land of Roar
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
"When Arthur and Rose were little, they were the heroes of Roar, a magical world they invented where the wildest creations of their imaginations roamed. Now that they're eleven, Roar is just a distant memory. But it hasn't forgotten them. When their grandfather is spirited away into Roar by the villain who still haunts their nightmares, Arthur and Rose must go back to the world they'd almost left behind. And when they get there, they discover that...
Author
Publisher
The Little Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 23 cm
Language
English
Description
My Superhero Grandpa is a story about a grandfather who watches over his young grandson from Heaven. The story is told by the young narrator and explains how his grandpa is able to be with him anytime he needs someone because, after all, a superhero has super powers. This book likens angels to superheroes and is one way to help young children cope with the passing of a grandparent or to help acquaint a young child with a grandparent who died before...
95) Love, Mouserella
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is my letter I wrote to Grandmouse because I miss her. She went back to the country and I'm in the city. Mama said why don't I write her a letter, so I did."--Dust jacket.
97) On the trapline
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
560L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A picture book celebrating Indigenous culture and traditions. A boy and Moshom, his grandpa, take a trip together to visit a place of great meaning to Moshom. A trapline is where people hunt and live off the land, and it was where Moshom grew up. As they embark on their northern journey, the child repeatedly asks his grandfather, "Is this your trapline?" Along the way, the boy finds himself imagining what life was like two generations ago--a life...
98) We could fly
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"At a sparrow's urging, a young girl feels a mysterious trembling in her arms, a lightness in her feet, a longing to be free. Her mother tells her that her Granny Liza experienced the same, as did many of their people before her. Perhaps it's time, Mama says, to slip the bonds of earth and join the journey started long ago. To hold each other tight and rise. Drawing on lyrics from the song "We Could Fly" by Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell, which...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A debut picture book about a little girl who connects to her Vietnamese heritage when she accidentally rips her late grandmother's áo dái.
100) While I was away
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old Waka's parents suspect she can't understand basic Japanese they speak to her, they make the drastic decision to send her to Tokyo to live for several months with her strict grandmother. Forced to say goodbye to her friends and what would have been her summer vacation, Waka is plucked from her straight-A-student life in rural Kansas and flown across the globe, where she faces the culture shock of a lifetime. In Japan, Waka struggles...