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In North River, critically acclaimed, best-selling author Pete Hamill whisks listeners back to 1934-when the Great Depression held New York City in its relentless grip-for a story of one remarkable man's perseverance. Haunted by the horrors of World War I, Dr. James Delaney's personal life is a nightmare. But everything changes when he returns home one day to find his three-year-old grandson on his doorstep.
7) Skyfishing
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A young girl helps her grandfather adjust to his new home in the city with her family by inventing a fantastical fishing game"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Rebecca Wells's wonderful third book in her Ya-Ya trilogy, which includes Little Altars Everywhere and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, is sure to provide reading that makes you laugh and cry, a book that will break your heart and mend it again.
Ya-Yas in Bloom reveals the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s, following Vivi, Teensy, Caro and Necie through sixty years of marriage, child-raising, and hair-raising family secrets.
When...
10) The grandma book
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Presents the different ways grandmothers show their grandchildren love, from offering advice and babysitting to making things and giving lots of kisses.
13) Firefly Cloak
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Language
English
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Description
Firefly Cloak is the powerfully vivid coming-of-age story of Tessa Lee, who, after being abandoned by her mother, sets off on a risky journey to discover what she has lost.
When eight-year-old Tessa Lee and her brother, Travis, are abandoned in a campground by their desperate mother and her boyfriend of the moment, they are left with only two things: a phone number written in Magic Marker on Travis's back and their mother's favorite housecoat, which...
14) Papa Jethro
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When rachel asks her Grandpa Nick why he is Christian when she is Jewish, he relates the biblical story of Jethro and his grandson Gershom, who loved one another very much despite their different religious beliefs.
16) Genevieve's war
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"In August 1939 Genevieve makes an impulsive decision not to get on the train that will take her to the boat back to New York.So she must spend the duration of World War II with her grandmother in a small village in Alsace, France, where she becomes involved with the French resistance"--
17) Love, Mouserella
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Mouserella describes the things that are happening in her life in a letter she writes to her grandmother who lives in the country.
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English
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In Holt, Colorado, widower Louis Waters is initially thrown when the widowed Addie Moore suggests that they spend time together, in bed, to stave off loneliness, but soon they are exchanging the confidences and memories. They are soon exchanging the confidences and memories of lives now empty of family, and their hopes for the imminent future.
19) The bird house
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Ann Biddle spends time with her eight-year-old granddaughter for a school project, and, despite Ann's dementia, the two bond over Ann's memories of the past and surprising family secrets.
20) As brave as you
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When Genie and his older brother spend their summer in the country with their grandparents, he learns a secret about his grandfather and what it means to be brave.
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