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1) Fablehaven
Author
Series
Fablehaven volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When Kendra and Seth go to stay at their grandparents' estate, they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and that a battle between good and evil is looming.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"A painfully beautiful memoir....Written with such restraint as to be both heartbreaking and instructive."
—E. L. Doctorow
A revered, many times honored (George Polk, Peabody, and Emmy Award winner, to name but a few) journalist, novelist, and playwright, Roger Rosenblatt shares the unforgettable story of the tragedy that changed his life and his family. A book that grew out of his popular December 2008 essay in
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
He is also a proud grandfather who pens a charming tale about a young child's imagination. A little girl visits Nanna and Poppy's house. Their kitchen window looks quite ordinary, but it's so much more!
5) The visit
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When Becca and Tyler are sent to their grandparents' secluded Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong stay, they quickly discover something is not right with the elderly couple. Faced with strange rules and increasingly frightening behavior, the children soon realize it will take all their wits to make it home alive.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
Author
Publisher
Alzheimer's Foundation of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Dancing with Granddad is s picture book designed to be a teaching tool adults can use to have a conversation with a child about Alzheimer's disease. The book takes young readers on the journey of learning in an age-appropriate way that seven-year-old Nia's Granddad has Alzheimer's and will need to move to a new home. They also learn that while Nia's Granddad is changing, the love they have between them never will.
Author
Series
Cam Jansen mysteries. Main series volume 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Cam's grandparents are robbed on their way to her parents' surprise birthday party, Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the mystery.
Author
Series
Horrible Harry volume 26
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Third-grader Harry thinks of a way to patch up a conflict with his schoolmate Mary and include his friends in a fun detective case with rewards for everyone, including Grandpa.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two...
16) Sunny side up
Author
Series
Sunny side up volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the groundbreaking and award-winning sister-brother team behind Babymouse comes a middle-grade, graphic-novel memoir. Following the lives of kids whose older brother's delinquent behavior has thrown their family into chaos, "Sunny Side Up" is at once a compelling "problem" story and a love letter to the comic books that help the protagonist make sense of her world. " --
18) A grand day
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Celebrates the special bond between grandparents and their grandchildren"--
19) Let him go
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
20) Clean getaway
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"For the life of him, William "Scoob" Lamar can't seem to stay out of trouble--and now the run-ins at school have led to lockdown at home. So when G'ma, Scoob's favorite person on Earth, asks him to go on an impromptu road trip, he's in the RV faster than he can say FREEDOM. With G'ma's old maps and a strange pamphlet called the 'Travelers' Green Book' at their side, the pair takes off on a journey down G'ma's memory lane. But adventure quickly turns...