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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 26
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Claudia's grief over her grandmother Mimi's death goes unexpressed -- leaving Claudia unable to move forward with her life -- until she pours out her emotions to her sister and learns to see beyond her pain.
4) Bunny money
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
Max and Ruby take the bus downtown to buy a birthday gift for their grandma, but they spend so much money on emergencies that they don't have enough for bus fare home.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer.
7) Alida's song
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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A fourteen-year-old boy who has been neglected by irresponsible parents spends a wonderful summer on a farm where his grandmother cooks for two elderly brothers.
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English
Description
Right before Thanksgiving, a freak tornado descends on Larkspur, the small town in Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains where matriarch and candy magnate Loretta Cisco--affectionately called "Cisco" by her grandchildren--lives, and levels the home she's inhabited for fifty years. Then there's more bad news: Cisco's beloved triplet grandchildren, Hannah, Sara, and Sam, all newlyweds, are experiencing marital problems and they refuse to confide in their...
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Series
Prairie Legacy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In spite of the Christian faith she has learned from her grandparents, Marty and Clark Davis, and the rest of her family, Virginia finds the transition from childhood to adulthood difficult, as she copes with restrictions she finds unreasonable and her friendship with Jenny, whose way of life offers greater freedom.
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English
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"To hear Beatrice Agnew tell it, she entered the world with her mouth tightly shut. Just because she finds out she's dying doesn't mean she can't keep it that way. If any of her children have questions about their daddy and the choices she made after he abandoned them, they'd best take it up with Jesus. There's no room in Granny B's house for regrets or hand-holding. Or so she thinks. Her granddaughter, Evelyn Lester, shows up on Beatrice's doorstep...
11) The quilt
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Despite her arthritis, Mary, an elderly grandmother, is determined to make one final quilt
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Language
English
Description
"Eighties supermodel Harlow Hayes seeks solace in a quaint Florida beach town to hide and heal from a heartbreak that shattered her entire world. To her surprise, she encounters Matt Knight--a Hollywood A-lister with a bad-boy reputation--who has returned to his hometown to help his plucky grandmother, Tuesday, save her century-old skating rink, the Starlight. The Starlight holds a special place in the hearts of the community, once acting as a refuge...
13) The cookcamp
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness.
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Series
Fly Guy volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
370L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After accidentally swallowing her grandson's pet fly, Grandma tries to retrieve it by consuming progressively larger animals.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While preparing for a visit to her grandmother, a young girl notices that, like the flowers in Grammie's garden, people who are different from one another also share similarities and it's okay to like them all the same.
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Language
English
Description
As a first-year law associate, Sydney Batson knows she will be updating her resume by New Year's if she loses her current court case. So when her grandmother gets inexplicably ill while she's in court, Sydney arranges for a cab to get her to the clinic. The last thing cab driver Finn Parrish wants is to be saddled with a wheelchair-bound old lady with dementia. But because Miss Callie reminds him of his own mother, whom he failed miserably in her...
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English
Description
Justine Nolan is a documentary film maker who lost her beloved grandmother a decade ago--the person who was the only source of love and comfort in her life. Her own mother Deborah had always been distant and uninvolved, following her own agenda in pursuit of her career as an interior designer. But when Justine inadvertently opens a letter addressed to her mother, she discovers that not only is her grandmother Gabri alive, but that Deborah has deliberately...
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