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Emma London never thought she had anything in common with her grandmother Genevieve London. The regal old woman came from wealthy and bluest-blood New England stock, but that didn't protect her from life's cruelest blows: the disappearance of Genevieve's young son, followed by the premature death of her husband. But Genevieve rose from those ashes of grief and built a fashion empire that was respected the world over, even when it meant neglecting...
63) Juana & Lucas
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Juana and Lucas volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A spunky young girl from Colombia loves playing with her canine best friend and resists boring school activities, especially learning English, until her family tells her that a special trip is planned to an English-speaking place.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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When Sarah and her younger brother Charlie go to stay with their grandparents, it rains for days. At first, they have fun exploring inside the big, old house, but eventually they want to explore outside, too. "Where does the rain come from?" Sarah asks her grandfather, Big T. He promises to show her once it stops raining. When the storm passes, Sarah, Big T., Charlie and Keeper the dog go exploring. They jump in puddles, draw a puddle map and finally...
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Anastasia Krupnik volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Anastasia's 10th year has some good things like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother and some bad things like finding out about an impending baby brother.
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Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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When eleven-year-old Tilly Pages joins Oskar and his family on a Christmas trip to Paris, she and her friend bookwander into the land of fairy tales, where someone--or something--is causing chaos.
70) As brave as you
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Eleven-year-old Genie develops a special bond with his grandfather when he and his brother travel from Brooklyn for a month-long stay with their grandparents in rural Virginia.
"Scooping poop at his grandparent's house - that sure as heck wasn't the way eleven-year-old Genie expected to be spending his summer. But when his parents send him and his big brother, Ernie, to Virginia to experience the great (not!) outdoors, they're in for some big surprises....
71) Let him go
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Following the loss of their son, retired sheriff George Blackledge and his wife Margaret leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson. When they discover that he is in the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas, George and Margaret must fight for the survival of their family.
73) Angle of repose
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English
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Wallace Stegner's uniquely American classic centers on Lyman Ward, a noted historian, who relates a fictionalized biography of his pioneer grandparents at a time when he has become estranged from his own family. Through a combination of research, memory, and exaggeration, Ward voices ideas concerning the relationship between history and the present, art and life, parents and children, husbands and wives. Like other great quests in literature, Lyman...
74) Faith Fox
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Language
English
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A motley crew of friends and family attempt to raise Faith Fox, a young orphan girl who lost her mother at childbirth and who is forsaken by her grandmother who cannot bear to look at the infant whose birth killed her daughter and overlooked by her overworked and distant father.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-olds Cooper Goodman and Justice and Liberty Gordon investigate the eccentric residents of Windy Bottom, Georgia, after the remains of Coop's long-missing grandmother are uncovered and his Gramps is the prime suspect.
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Series
Young Amelia Bedelia (Picture books) volume 3
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While visiting her grandparents, literal-minded Amelia Bedelia finally learns, despite some mishaps, how to bake an apple pie.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Sammy must spend weeks alone with his grandfather, he learns that the old man isn't quite as boring as he thought... When his parents leave for Detroit, Sammy is left alone with his out-of-touch grandfather in a dull, creaky house. All Sammy wants to do is run away to rejoin his folks. But Grandpa's world holds a few surprises, including a majestic crane found in the woods with a broken wing. Sammy finds himself seeing his grandfather's world...