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Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Having baked six dozen Christmas cookies for themselves and been given many more by the neighbors, Gus and Grandpa find a rewarding solution to disposing of their extra holiday treats.
22) Gilead
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
Reverend John Ames is dying in 1956 in Gilead, Iowa, and he in recording his family's story. Glory Boughton has returned to care for her dying father and soon her brother, Jack, the prodigal son, comes home, too.
23) It's too soon!
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Anna thinks it is too early to go to bed, but her grandfather leads her one step at a time.
24) Hey Grandude!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Grandude brightens a dreary weekend for his visiting grandchildren, Lucy, Tom, Em, and Bob, by using his magic compass and postcards to take them on adventures around the world.
25) Stand tall
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Tree, a six-foot-three-inch twelve-year-old, copes with his parents' recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With her father away fighting in World War II and her grandfather too sick to create the traditional luminaria, Luz helps create farolitos, little lanterns, for their Christmas celebration instead.
29) Lucky morning
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
While on vacation in the mountains of Montana, a young girl and her grandfather share a special morning.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
One side of this upside-down book celebrates all of the things grandmas do for their grandchildren. Turning the book over and around produces a similar celebration of grandpas.
Author
Series
Bella Vista volume 3
Language
English
Description
There is a book for everything. Somewhere in the vast Library of the Universe, as Natalie thought of it, there was a book that embodied exactly the things she was worried about. In the wake of a shocking tragedy, Natalie Harper inherits her mother's charming but financially strapped bookshop in San Francisco. She also becomes a caretaker for her ailing grandfather Andrew, her only living relative, not counting her scoundrel father. But the gruff,...
33) Tea with Grandpa
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
No matter how far apart they are, a little girl and her grandfather share a cup of tea every day at half past three.
Author
Series
Alcatraz Smedry adventures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
On his thirteenth birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry receives a bag of sand which is immediately stolen by the evil Librarians who are trying to take over the world, and Alcatraz is introduced to his grandfather and his own special talent, and told that he must use it to save civilization.
35) Grandpa Bear
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
Description
Four episodes demonstrate the imaginative games Grandpa Bear plays with Samantha and the affection between them.
36) Life Expectancy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Here is the story of five days in the life of an ordinary man born to an extraordinary legacy--a story that will challenge the way you look at good and evil, life and death, and everything in between. Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside....
37) These hands
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An African American man tells his grandson about a time when, despite all the wonderful things his hands could do, they could not touch bread at the Wonder Bread factory. Based on stories of bakery union workers; includes historical note.
38) Miss Rumphius
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Trevor Benson never intended to move back to New Bern, NC. But when a mortar blast outside the hospital where he worked as an orthopedic surgeon sent him home from Afghanistan with devastating injuries, the dilapidated cabin he inherited from his grandfather seemed as good a place to regroup as any. Tending to his grandfather's beloved bee hives while gearing up for a second stint in medical school, Trevor isn't prepared to fall in love with a local...