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82) The Tender Years
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Series
Prairie Legacy volume 1
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Teenager Virginia Simpson, chafing at the restrictions of her devout parents and small-town life, faces a crisis that involves the whole town when she becomes friends with Jenny Woods, an independent young woman from the big city whose morals are not what they should be.
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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.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Lily is moving into her grandmother's farm in Iowa, and she is sad about all the changes necessary in her life--but on the long drive her grandmother challenges her to find ten beautiful things that they can share together.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
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Readopoly Community Garden Recommendations
Description
"When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni's Korean folktales arrives. The tiger offers Lily a deal- if Lily will open her grandmother's star jars and return what she stole, the tiger will heal her grandmother. But deals with tigers are never what they seem! With the help of her sister and her new friend Ricky, Lily must find her voice . . . and the courage to face a tiger. Tae Keller,...
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Friday night knitting club volume 3
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Description
Not only are the holidays are just around the corner, the women who knit at Manhattan's Walker & Daughter have an extra reason to celebrate: there's a wedding planned for New Year's Day. Dakota Walker is working to finish a sweater her mother started before Dakota was born. As she takes on her mother's pattern, she learns more history in these stitches than she had anticipated.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Grandma Mazur is a widow...again. This time her marriage lasted a whole 45 minutes. The unlucky groom was one Jimmy Rosolli, local gangster, lothario (senior division) and heart attack waiting to happen...well, the waiting's over. It's a sad day, but if she can't have Jimmy at least Grandma can have all the attention she wants as the dutiful widow. But some kinds of attention are not welcomed, particularly when Jimmy's former "business partners" are...
91) The bell bandit
Author
Series
Lemonade war series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Siblings Evan and Jessie must solve the mystery of a missing cherished family treasure while coming to terms with their beloved grandmother's unsettling behavior.
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Forgive and be forgiven. Is sounds so appealing - why doesn't it happen every day? Finding herself forgiven on a rain-scrubbed morning after a difficult day, Melena seizes her fresh start and shares the song in her heart with her family and friends. It's a day of new beginnings. It's Melena's jubilee."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out...
95) How to be true
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Description
With her activist parents off fighting for good causes, Edie Berger is sent off to boarding school by her strict grandmother, Odette, and gets a chance to visit Paris, where she has a series of madcap adventures while trying to figure out her place and purpose in the world.
96) The squeaky door
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Little Boy is frightened by a squeaky bedroom door, his grandmother brings in various animals to help him feel secure enough to sleep. Includes notes on the story's origins.
97) The Peace Bell
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Yoko's grandmother tells about how the bell in their town that would ring on New Year's Eve is given up during the war for scrap metal, finds its way back to their village, and becomes known as the Peace Bell.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"T. Kingfisher's A House With Good Bones is a contemporary Southern Gothic from a master of modern horror that explores the deep, dark roots of family and in which grandma's ghost haunting your house may be the least of your worries. In this ordinary North Carolina suburb, family secrets are always in bloom. Samantha Montgomery pulls into the driveway of her family home to find a massive black vulture perched on the mailbox, staring at the house....
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"'A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.' In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace--and will touch lives in ways she...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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Monday mornings aren't supposed to be fun, but they should be predictable. However, on this particular Monday, Stephanie Plum knows that something is amiss when she turns up for work at Vinnie's Bail Bonds to find that long-time office manager Connie Rosolli, who is as reliable as the tides in Atlantic City, hasn't shown up. Stephanie's worst fears are confirmed when she gets a call from Connie's abductor. He says he will only release her in exchange...
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