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Author
Series
Sisters Grimm volume 2
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although filled with anger over her parents' disappearance, eleven-year-old Sabrina Grimm--along with her grandmother, sister, and several fairy-tale characters--tries to discover who has killed her teacher.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Angel's self-absorbed mother leaves her and her younger brother with their poor great-grandmother, the eleven-year-old girl worries not only about her mother and brother, her imprisoned father, the frail old woman, but also about a mysterious man who begins sharing with her the wonder of the stars.
4) The witches
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Grandma Dowdel volume Book 1
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
8) The legacy
Author
Publisher
Harper Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
487 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant and absorbing drama."
-Good Housekeeping (UK)
A fresh and exciting new voice in contemporary fiction, Katherine Webb debuts with a haunting novel about a secret family history. Already a sensation in the United Kingdom, Webb's The Legacy is a treat for every fan of upmarket women's fiction and literary suspense in the vein of bestselling authors Kate Morton, Sarah Waters, and Diane Setterfield. Taut, affecting, and surprising-a story...
11) Tribute
Author
Language
English
Description
Cilla, a former child star who has found more satisfying work as a restorer of old houses, has come to her grandmother's Shenandoah Valley farmhouse, tools at her side, to rescue it from ruin. In the attic, she finds a cache of unsigned letters suggesting that her grandmother was pregnant when she died and that the father was a local married man. When Cilla becomes the target of a series of intimidating acts and a frightening, violent assault, her...
12) Emma's question
Author
Publisher
Publishers Group UK [distributor]
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Emma's grandmother, who takes care of her after school and takes her out for bagels on Wednesdays, gets sick and has to go to the hospital, Emma is afraid that she will die--but she is also afraid to talk about her fear.
Author
Series
Fly Guy volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Fountas & Pinnell
J
Language
English
Description
After accidentally swallowing her grandson's pet fly, Grandma tries to retrieve it by consuming progressively larger animals.
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Formats
Description
Catherine Hubbard, newly divorced, moves into her grandmother Georgia's old house where she stumbles upon the true story of Georgia's life and marriage and makes surprising connections between their situations.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"From the author of "The House at Riverton" comes a story of outer and inner journeys as "Nell," abandoned as a child, leaves her adoptive parents in Australia and travels to England to trace her story, to find her real identity--a quest that ultimately leads her to Blackhurst Manor on the Cornish coast and the secrets of the doomed Mountrachet family."
17) Song for a whale
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From fixing the class computer to repairing old radios, twelve-year-old Iris is a tech genius. But she's the only deaf person in her school, so people often treat her like she's not very smart. If you've ever felt like no one was listening to you, then you know how hard that can be. When she learns about Blue 55, a real whale who is unable to speak to other whales, Iris understands how he must feel. Then she has an idea: she should invent a way to...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Stella Sparrow, the latest in a long history of Sparrow women to have special gifts, discovers on her thirteenth birthday that she can see the future, an ability that has both positive and negative effects on her life and her family members.
19) Love mercy
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Berkley hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 325 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Love Mercy Johnson's predictable life in Morro Bay, California, is completely disrupted when her long-estranged granddaughter, Loretta Lynn "Rett" Johnson, an aspiring songwriter, shows up the Buttercream Cafe, a diner Love Mercy co-owns with her best friend Magnolia Rosalina Sanchez.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
291 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Evelyn Bucknow is happy living with her single mother, Tina, in a small apartment outside Kerrville, Kansas, until Tina's failed romance with her married boss leaves her jobless and desperate, forcing Evelyn to distance herself and turn to her conventional grandmother for help.
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