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"Celebrate the special bond between grandparents and grandsons in this beautiful and touching book based on the New York Times best selling works by Gregory E. Lang. Why we need grandsons captures the unconditional love shared with charming illustrations and heartwarming rhymes."--
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Nguyen kids volume 03
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"The third book in the early chapter book series The Nguyen Kids features the youngest sibling, Jacob, and continues the series' exploration of social justice themes, specifically gender expression and identity, with a supernatural twist. Thoughtful and creative, Jacob is tired of being the baby of the family. He is ready to fully express himself in all of the ways that feel right to him, but not everyone seems as eager to accept change--even his...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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While her grandmother was alive, Emma's world was filled with enchantment. But now Gram is gone, and suddenly strange spots are appearing on Emma's skin. Soon, she's diagnosed with vitiligo-a condition that makes patches of her skin lose their color-and the magic in her world is suddenly replaced with school bullies and doctor appointments. But when Emma writes one last story in the journal she shared with Gram, something strange happens. Someone...
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"Her younger brother can't wait to share what he's done on her drawing. But her anger explodes, and it's too late to take back her angry words, even though she is upset by what she said. The summer thunderstorm matches her feelings. When her grandfather asks her to play the thunder pause game she loves, she understands that she can count the pause between the flash and the boom instead of letting out her anger"--
10) You be Grandma
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AD 460L
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"In this clever, rhyming picture book, a grandma tells her granddaughter that she's simply too tired to be Grandma tonight and asks her granddaughter to take over for her"--Jacket.
11) Joy
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"Fern's Nanna has not been herself of late. When Mom remarks that all the joy seems to have gone out of her life, Fern decides to go on a joy hunt. With her catching-kit at the ready, Fern sets off and finds joy in all sorts of unusual places. But how will she bring it back to Nanna? Emotional, funny, and uplifting, this beautiful picture book is a pure delight. With its strong message about empathy and maintaining loving relationships with our grandparents,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Grandmother lives with Grace's family. She teaches her how to measure water for rice. She tells her stories about growing up in China and together they savor the flavors of her childhood. Grandmother says goodbye when she drops Grace off at school every morning and hello when she picks her up at the end of the day. Then, Grandmother stops walking Grace to and from school, and the door to her room stays closed. Father comes home early to make dinner,...
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AD 480L
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"A little girl is moving far away and worries her grandmother won't be able to find her- but her grandmother explains that they are united by a strong thread of love"--Provided by publisher.
A little girl is moving far away from her grandmother, and worried that her grandmother will not be able to find her she draws a map, with an airplane--but her grandmother assures her that they are united by the strong thread of love.
15) The return
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"A young woman gets on the bus and rides out of the big city. She arrives in the countryside, where she is as big as a giant, looming over a tiny house, a garden and her tiny grandmother. The cabbages and the apple trees are far below. Her grandmother smiles up at her in her yellow hat. The young woman bends down to give her little grandmother a big kiss, and then she smells her grandmother's cooking. She has returned home. When they sit down at the...
16) Always with you
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"A heartfelt new picture book from bestselling children's author Eric Walters (From the Heart of Africa) and Halifax-based artist Carloe Liu. In this poignant story, we follow young Emily who has recently lost her grandfather. As she grows, she discovers a series of letters he left behind for her, offering grandfatherly advice at life's most pivotal moments: first day of high school, graduation day, wedding, and ending with the birth of her own child....
17) The red tin box
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AD 880L
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"On her eighth birthday Maude buries a red tin box with some special treasures at the foot of a flowering dogwood tree and makes a promise to herself--and many years later she and her granddaughter travel to her childhood home to dig it up and pass it on"--Verso page.
19) Breda's island
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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In the vein of When You Trap a Tiger and Shouting at the Rain, this is the story of the journey one girl undertakes to find herself. After Breda Moriarity gets caught stealing one too many times, Breda's mom sends her to Ireland, a place she has never been, to live with the grandfather she has never met. While Breda doesn't want to be in this strange land, she finally gets to meet Granda, her mom's father. He's a grumpy farmer who is also a seanchai,...
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