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63) Love, Aubrey
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
While living with her Gram in Vermont, eleven-year-old Aubrey writes letters as a way of dealing with losing her father and sister in a car accident, and then being abandoned by her grief-stricken mother.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
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Description
Ellen is putting the finishing touches on a wedding quilt made from scraps of old dresses when the bride-to-be-her granddaughter June-unexpectedly arrives and announces she's calling off the marriage. With the tending of June's uncertain heart in mind, Ellen tells her the story of Nell, a Kansas-born woman who goes to the High Plains of New Mexico Territory in 1898 in search of a husband. Working as a biscuit-shooter, Nell falls for a cowboy named...
Author
Pub. Date
©2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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"Oceans of Possibilities" 2022 Summer Reading Picture Books & Chapter Books
AAPI Heritage Reading List for Kids & Teens
AAPI Heritage Reading List for Kids & Teens
Description
"Dayeon wants to be a haenyeo just like Grandma. The h]aenyeo dive off the coast of Jeju Island to pluck treasures from the sea–generations of Korean women have done so for centuries. To Dayeon, the haenyeo are as strong and graceful as mermaids . . . [So] when Grandma suits up for her next dive, Dayeon grabs her suit, flippers, and goggles. A scary memory of the sea keeps Dayeon clinging to the shore, but with Grandma’s guidance, Dayeon comes...
69) Grandmas At Bat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Pip's two grandmothers, who cannot agree on anything, take over coaching her baseball team and create chaos.
Author
Pub. Date
c2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Becca loves spending time with Grandma. Every time Becca says,"Let me try," Grandma shows her how to make something beautiful. Whether they are beading moccasins, dancing like the most beautiful butterflies, or practicing basketball together, Becca knowsthat, more than anything, she wants to be just like Grandma"--
72) Thunder cake
Author
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms.
Author
Series
Rosa books (Vera B. Williams) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother saves dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.
77) Song for a whale
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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"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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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.
79) Seeing Red
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Abby tries to use the magic mirror to get to her friend's house, but she ends up with her brother in the tale of Little Red Riding Hood; where, having accidently knocked out the Huntsman, they set out to save Red (named Lali) and her rather unpleasant grandmother themselves. But they end up having to save the wolf (who actually seems a lot nicer then Lali's grandmother), and discovering a surprising secret about their own Nana.
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