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1) Sugaring
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English
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Nora wants to find a way to give the horses a special treat for helping her grandfather and her gather sap to make maple syrup.
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Fourteenth goldfish volume 1
Language
English
Description
Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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English
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A boy and his grandfather cross a language and cultural barrier using their shared love of art, storytelling, and fantasy.
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English
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Publisher Annotation: For as long as Robinson Hart can remember, it?s just been her and Grandpa. He taught her about cars, baseball, and everything else worth knowing. But Grandpa?s memory has been getting bad?so bad that he sometimes can?t even remember Robbie?s name. She?s sure that she?s making things worse by getting in trouble at school, but she can?t resist using her fists when bullies like Alex Carter make fun of her for not having a mom. Now...
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Circus Mirandus volume 1
Language
English
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""When he realizes that his grandfather's stories of an enchanted circus are true, Micah Tuttle sets out to find the mysterious Circus Mirandus--and to use its magic to save his grandfather's life""--
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Charlie and Mouse volume 2
Fountas & Pinnell
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English
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Brothers Charlie and Mouse enjoy a special visit from Grumpy.
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English
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A BEST OF SUMMER READ ACCORDING TO NEWSWEEK, PARADE MAGAZINE, NBC NEWS, LITHUB, AND POPSUGAR! "The most heartfelt read of the summer...a surprising delight of a novel."--Shondaland An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people in a London suburb. Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in Wembley, in West London after losing his beloved...
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Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
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Series
Rarities Unlimited volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
385 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an art buyer decides to put her grandfatherś impressionist works painted in the 20ś on sale, she discovers that the paintings are messages from murder victims and someone wants to keep the voices from being heard.
12) A song of frutas
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language
English
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While visiting her abuelo in Cuba, a young girl helps him sell frutas, singing the name of each fruit as they walk, and after she returns to the United States, they exchange letters made of abrazos--hugs. Includes historical and cultural notes.
13) The outside dog
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
1995, c1993
Edition
1st HarperTrophy ed.
Physical Desc
62 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Marisol, who lives in Puerto Rico, wants a dog very much but her grandfather will not let her have one, until a skinny mutt wins him over.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
1998, c1997
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
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A young boy spends his spring vacation helping his grandpa with the annual ritual of tapping the trees, collecting the sap, and making sweet, sticky maple syrup.
16) Finding Orion
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Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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"Rion Kwirk comes from a rather odd family. His mother named him and his sisters after her favorite constellations, and his father makes funky-flavored jellybeans for a living. One sister acts as if she's always on stage, and the other is a walking dictionary. But no one in the family is more odd than Rion's grandfather, Papa Kwirk. He's the kind of guy who shows up on his motorcycle only on holidays handing out crossbows and stuffed squirrels as...
17) Ocean meets sky
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29
Language
English
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"A little boy builds a ship to honor his late grandfather and sets sail for the magical place where ocean meets sky from his grandfather's stories"--
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Miss Peregrine volume 1
Language
English
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After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there.
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English
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Zelly Fried wants a dog more than anything, so at the urging of her grandfather, during the summer before sixth grade she takes care of a "practice dog" made out of an orange juice jug to show her parents that she is ready for the responsibility, even though she is sometimes not entirely sure about the idea.
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