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1) Ferris
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Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.
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"It's the moment that Harmony Island has been waiting for: the reading of Charlotte Cane's will. After I returned to my small hometown six months ago to attend my estranged grandmother's funeral, I swore I would never go back. That is, until my grandmother's lawyer calls me up. If I don't return to Harmony Island and fulfill my grandmother's stipulations, the generationally owned family inn will be turned over to the state and sold off to the highest...
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Struggling to move on after her husband's death, thirty-five-year-old Anna receives an unexpected phone call from her estranged grandmother, Goldie, summoning her to New York. A demanding woman with a sharp tongue and a devotion to fashion and etiquette, Goldie has not softened in the five years since she and her granddaughter last spoke. Now she wants Anna to drive her to San Francisco to return a collection of exquisite Japanese art to a long-lost...
5) Cousins
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
550L
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English
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Cammy loves her family-except for her cousin Patty Ann. Though she knows she shouldn't feel this way, she can't help it. Patty Ann knowsis too perfect to like. Too perfect to be a friend. Then one day something terrible happens, something that can't be changed. That's when Cammy learns the truth about Patty Ann, her family love and forgiveness.
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Being a grandmother is the bes--it can't be overrated. But the rules for grandmothers have changed. Gone forever are the cliched images of rocking chairs, aprons, and knitting needles. What remains are women who are savvy, seasoned, sophisticated, and silver! Enter women who are full of life and wanting to leave a legacy. Generation G is here! Challenged to reinvent grandmothering for the twenty-first century, this advice from the heart of a savvy...
8) The chaos
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Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 550L
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English
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In the follow-up to Numbers [Num8ers], sixteen-year-old Adam like his mother, Jem, looks in people's eyes and can see the dates of their deaths and now he sees the same date, six months in the future, in nearly everyone around him in the London of 2026.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Written like a crooked Métis jig, A Grandmother Begins the Story follows five generations of women and bison as they reach for the stories that could remake their worlds and rebuild their futures. Carter is a young mother, recently separated. She is curious, angry, and on a quest to find out what the heritage she only learned of in her teens truly means. Allie, Carter's mother, is trying to make up for the lost years with her first born, and to protect...
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My gran does karate. She knows how to block and chop. And how to kick and spin. Don't let her wrinkles and old skinny bones fool you--my gran is REALLY strong! This legendary lady is about to HII-YAH her way into your heart and show you what grannies are really made of. But who will be in the firing line when Gran chops and blocks her way all over town?"--Back cover.
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"It's been nine years since Jake Hamilton broke Allison Buchanon's heart and left town. But she's never been able to forget the high school boy she secretly loved. Now Jake's come home to care for his ailing grandmother, and Allison's family will do anything to prevent a rekindled romance. Unfortunately, the connection between Allison and the green-eyed cowboy is undeniable. She believes that forgiveness is possible, especially at Christmas. But Jake...
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Esther Larson has been cooking for funerals in the Northwoods of Wisconsin for seventy years. Known locally as the "funeral ladies," she and her cohort have worked hard to keep the mourners of Ellerie County fed--it is her firm belief that there is very little a warm casserole and a piece of cherry pie can't fix. But, after falling for an internet scam that puts her home at risk, the proud Larson family matriarch is the one in need of help these days....
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
This “masterful novella is equal parts macabre fairy-tale and blackly humorous family portrait,” offering an inside look at the lives of eccentric aristocrats (Literary Hub).
This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great houses of the aristocracy, as witnessed through the unsparing eyes of an orphaned...
This “masterful novella is equal parts macabre fairy-tale and blackly humorous family portrait,” offering an inside look at the lives of eccentric aristocrats (Literary Hub).
This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great houses of the aristocracy, as witnessed through the unsparing eyes of an orphaned...
14) Like so
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English
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Just as the sun loves the day and the moon loves the waves, a grandmother shows how her family's love is natural and connected to the world around them.
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Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
730L
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English
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Tara Doucet is grieving for her grandmother, and her family is falling apart around her, but it seems like her grandmother has preplanned an elaborate itinerary for her to follow which will lead her and her sister Riley from Louisiana to a South Pacific island and into danger--and everywhere she turns butterflies follow.
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"Zhenia is adrift in Los Angeles, pregnant with a baby her husband doesn't want, while her Russian grandmother and favorite person in the world is dying on the opposite coast. She's deeply disconnected from herself and her desires when she gets a strange call from Paul, a psychic medium who usually specializes in channeling dead pets, with a message from the other side. Zhenia's great- grandmother Irina, a Russian Revolutionary, has approached him...
18) Western wind
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Twelve-year-old Elizabeth resents being sent to stay on a small Maine island after the arrival of her new baby brother, but the time she spends with her artist grandmother and an unusual young neighbor help her to see things differently.
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Aware their grandmother is gravely ill, four siblings make a pact to keep death from taking her away. But Death does arrive all the same, as it must. He comes gently, naturally. And he comes with enough time to share a story with the children that helps them to realize the value of loss to life and the importance of being able to say goodbye.
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