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Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Zhenia is adrift in Los Angeles, pregnant with a baby her husband doesn't want, while her Russian grandmother and favorite person in the world is dying on the opposite coast. She's deeply disconnected from herself and her desires when she gets a strange call from Paul, a psychic medium who usually specializes in channeling dead pets, with a message from the other side. Zhenia's great-grandmother Irina, a Russian Revolutionary, has approached him...
2) The witches
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This Roald Dahl classic tells the scary, funny and imaginative tale of a seven-year-old boy who has a run-in with some real-life witches! In fairy tales witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy tale. This is about REAL WITCHES. REAL WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women. They live in ordinary houses and they work in ordinary jobs. That is why they...
Author
Publisher
Entangled Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-eight-year-old Georgia Stanton has to start over after she gave up almost everything in a brutal divorce--the New York house, the friends, and her pride. Now back home at her late great-grandmother's estate in Colorado, she finds herself face-to-face with Noah Harrison, the bestselling author of a million books where the cover is always people nearly kissing. He's just as arrogant in person as in interviews, and she'll be damned if the good-looking...
7) The quilt
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Mary's hands are gnarled, and she knows the time to join her Lord is approaching. But her heart tells her she must accomplish one last, loving task -- make one final quilt. Her son protests, but Mary begins anyhow, sewing every stitch in a spirit of prayer and thankfulness to God. As the quilt grows, the impact of Mary's endeavor is felt not only in her family, but in her entire community as well.
8) Abuela
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While riding on a bus with her grandmother, a little girl imagines that they are carried up into the sky and fly over the sights of New York City.
Author
Series
Fly Guy volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After accidentally swallowing her grandson's pet fly, Grandma tries to retrieve it by consuming progressively larger animals.
10) The Tender Years
Author
Series
Prairie Legacy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teenager Virginia Simpson, chafing at the restrictions of her devout parents and small-town life, faces a crisis that involves the whole town when she becomes friends with Jenny Woods, an independent young woman from the big city whose morals are not what they should be.
11) Thunder cake
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms.
13) The button box
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A child examines the many different buttons in Grandma's button box.
14) Dicey's song
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.
16) Crossroads
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jean Wright is a widow in a small New England city and the owner of a venerable glassworks company. When a tragic car accident robs her of a loved one, Jean must put aside her grief to raise the surviving child, the one-year-old Guin, as her own. As the child blossoms into an independent young woman, the two generations clash. When guin defies the only mother she's ever known by striking out on her own--pursuing a completely different kind of career,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Catherine, recently divorced, comes to live in her grandmother's house and discovers her diary that tells how she raised her sisters, was sent to a sanitarium for tuberculosis, fell in love and how she had changed when she returned home. It allows the granddaughter to see her own patterns of disappointment and compromise in her life and that of her grandmother
18) Alida's Song
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fourteen-year old boy who has been neglected by irresponsible parents spends a wonderful summer on a farm where his grandmother cooks for two elderly brothers.
Author
Series
Sisters Grimm volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead and find out that they must take on the family responsibility of being fairy-tale detectives.