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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's almost Poppa's birthday and young Theo wants to give her beloved grandfather the perfect gift. Poppa has traveled the world and keeps a trunk full of mementos collected on his adventures. That gives Theo an idea for a very special gift: a new adventure! They'll take the streetcar to the local beach, sink their toes in the sand, skip stones and stop for lunch at the beachside café. Together, Poppa and Theo plan their trip and sketch a map of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifth grader Robbie is determined to stay out of trouble so that she does not worry her grandfather whose memory is failing and to make sure that she and her grandfather stay together as he is the only family she has left.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
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.
6) Quiet
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While observing the busy world around them, two children and their grandfather take a moment to appreciate being quiet and still.
10) Noodle magic
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Grandpa Tu is famous for his special noodles, and as the emperor's birthday approaches, he encourages his granddaughter, Mei, to find her own noodle magic.
11) Ice cream summer
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little boy writes a letter to his grandfather about all the reading and studying he is doing this summer--but all his activities revolve around ice cream.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Growing up with six brothers in rural Texas in 1899, 12-year-old Callie realizes that her aversion to needlework and cooking disappoints her mother. She prefers to study the natural world with her grandfather, which leads to an important discovery.
14) Behind the mask
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Kimin, a young Korean-American boy, has trouble deciding on a Halloween costume, but as he looks through an old trunk of his grandfather's things, he suddenly unlocks a childhood mystery.
15) My two grandads
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Aston enjoys learning to play the steel drums with his Grandad Roy's band and the trumpet with his Grandad Harry's brass band, and when the school needs a band to play for the school fair, Aston brings his grandads together to form one big band for the event.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When his beloved grandfather is killed in a storm while leading the swan flock south for the winter, Moonshadow is reassured by his father that the flock will go on with Grandfather always in their hearts.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy has his heart set on a brand-new toy fire truck, so he is disappointed when he gets his grandfather's rusty old fire truck, Red, instead. But working together, the boy and his grandfather patch Red right up while Grandpa tells his grandson all about the adventures he had with Red when he was a boy.
18) Drawn together
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A boy and his grandfather cross a language and cultural barrier using their shared love of art, storytelling, and fantasy.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Two children provide instructions how to properly read to a grandmother or a grandfather, including how to choose a good book, how to use different voices, and where to find the perfect place to cuddle up and read.
20) Jake
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Jake forms an unexpected bond with his estranged grandfather after his mother's injury puts the pair together in time for the Christmas holiday.
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