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81) Food for thought
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Fountas & Pinnell
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Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Gigi tries natto, a traditional Japanese food. But will she like it as much as peanut butter?"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1951. Esther Durrant, a young mother, is committed to an isolated mental asylum by her husband. Run by a pioneering psychiatrist, the hospital is at first Esther's prison but soon surprisingly becomes her refuge. 2018. Free-spirited marine scientist Rachel Parker embarks on a research posting in the Isles of Scilly, off the Cornish coast. When a violent storm forces her to take shelter on a far-flung island, she discovers a collection of hidden...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the...
84) Healer and witch
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sylvie and her mother and grandmother are beloved, trusted healers in their French village at the end of the Middle Ages, though some whisper that fifteen-year-old Sylvie and her grand-mère deal in more than herbs and medicines. Perhaps they're a bit . . . witchy? After her grandmother dies, and an attempt to use her untrained magic to heal her mother's grief yields tragic consequences, Sylvie leaves in search of a teacher. Accompanied by Martin,...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
429 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Alice Hoffman, Sarah Addison Allen, and Adriana Trigiani, The Dress Shop of Dreams is a captivating novel of enduring hopes, second chances, and the life-changing magic of true love. Since her parents' mysterious deaths many years ago, scientist Cora Sparks has spent her days in the safety of her university lab or at her grandmother Etta's dress shop. Tucked away on a winding Cambridge street, Etta's charming tiny store appears quite...
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Shayne looks forward to spending her summers with her grandmother, but she is disappointed when her best friend is more interested in boys than making bracelets and her grandmother's hobby has become a hoarding problem.
Publisher
Lightyear Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brian Cox (Golden Globe Winner for HBO's Succession) is Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman who reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island for San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his estranged son, Rory's life will be unexpectedly transformed through a newly found love for his baby grandson.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Saturdays are superhero days. Equipped with their milkshakes and capas, Luis and his abuela can turn anything into an adventure. But when Abuela gets sick, Luis has to learn a new way to be a hero"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Gigi wants to go by something besides her baby name--but her full name, Geraldine, is too long to write and Hanako, her middle name, doesn't feel quite right. Will Gigi find the perfect name? Gigi and Ojiji: What's in a Name? is a Level Three I Can Read book. Level 3 includes many fun subjects kids love to read about on their own. Themes include friendship, adventure, historical fiction, and science. Level 3 books are written for early independent...
90) I feel safe
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 unnumbered volume 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A young girl is frightened by a thunderstorm, but her parents and grandparents help her to feel safe until the thunder passes--even after the lights go out.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
""On rare occasions I read a book that reminds me of why I fell in love with storytelling in the first place. This is such a book." -Stephen King Peter Blauner's epic Picture in the Sand is a sweeping intergenerational saga told through a grandfather's passionate letters to his grandson, passing on the story of his political rebellion in 1950s Egypt in order to save his grandson's life in a post-9/11 world. When Alex Hassan gets accepted to an Ivy...
93) The switch
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Eileen is sick of being 79. Leena's tired of life in her twenties. Maybe it's time they swapped places... When overachiever Leena Cotton is ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, she escapes to her grandmother Eileen's house for some overdue rest. Eileen is newly single and about to turn eighty. She'd like a second chance at love, but her tiny Yorkshire village doesn't offer many eligible gentlemen. Once Leena...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Ward (Salvage the Bones) tells the story of three generations of a struggling Mississippi family in this astonishing novel. "We don't walk no straight lines. It's all happening at once. All of it. We all here at once." This is the explanation 13-year-old Jojo is provided by his grandmother, the family matriarch, on her deathbed. "I'll be on the other side of the door," she reassures him, "With everybody else that's gone before." Jojo and his little...
95) Valentin
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Valentin is a nine-year-old boy whose feuding parents have left him to be raised by his eccentric grandmother. With his father visiting only occasionally, Valentin is left to look to the other men in the neighborhood for father figures, and to replace his absent mother, he warms to Leticia, one of his father's many short-term girlfriends. When he tells her personal secrets about his father, however, Valentin jeopardizes their relationship. One of...
Author
Series
Definitely Dominguita volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
118 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"All Dominguita wants to do is read. Especially the books in Spanish that Abuela gave to her just before she moved away. They were classics that Abuela and Dominguita read together, classics her abuela brought with her all the way from Cuba when she was a young girl. It helps Dominguita feel like Abuela's still there with her. One of her favorites, Don Quixote, tells of a brave knight errant who tries to do good deeds. Dominguita decides that she,...
97) Punky Aloha
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Punky loves to do a lot of things--except meeting new friends. She doesn't feel brave enough. So when her grandmother asks her to go out and grab butter for her famous banana bread, Punky hesitates. But with the help of her grandmother's magical sunglasses, and with a lot of aloha in her heart, Punky sets off on a BIG adventure for the very first time"--
98) In her shoes
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
Free-wheeling irresponsible Maggie gets through her life thanks to her remarkable looks and her complete lack of scruples. She constantly goes to her straight-laced, plain-Jane successful lawyer sister Rose when she is in need of financial help. The two sisters have been very close to each other in part because their troubled mother died when they were girls. Maggie discovers hidden letters that reveal she and Rose have a grandmother, but Maggie ends...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Publishing
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
369p.[Large Print] ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In rural 1930's Kentucky, Olivia Harker runs the grocery store her father started and raises her grandson, William. She tries to keep to herself and live as peaceful a life as possible, but once she finds wolves shot on her land and missing an ear, she sees this as a message and sets out to find out what is happening.
100) In the wild light
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Life in a small Appalachian town is not easy. Cash lost his mother to an opioid addiction and his Papaw is dying slowly from emphysema. Dodging drug dealers and watching out for his best friend, Delaney, is second nature. He's been spending his summer mowing lawns while she works at Dairy Queen. But when Delaney manages to secure both of them full rides to an elite prep school in Connecticut, Cash will have to grapple with his need to protect and...
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