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Author
Series
Fourteenth goldfish volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.
3) Beneath
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Finn is in a bad mood, so his grandfather takes him on a walk in the forest, and tells him about all the things that are beneath the surface of plants and animals--and even people.
Author
Series
Monstrous devices volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alex, nearly thirteen, flees with his grandfather across snowy Europe to escape the human and mechanical assassins that pursue them, trying to retrieve a powerful object.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
12-year-old Jamaican boy, Lloyd, is searching for his beloved grandfather, a fisherman who is lost at sea. Lloyd suspects that his grandfather has witnessed an illegal capture of dolphins for the tourist trade and that he has come to harm. Interspersed with Lloyd's quest on land and sea is a second voice -- of the grandfather himself. Marooned on a rock, he describes his life growing up in a rural fishing village in a long-gone era.
6) Heidi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Heidi is only five when she is taken to live with her grandfather, known as Uncle Alp, in the Swiss Mountains. Notorious in the village for his gloomy outlook and reclusive nature, Uncle Alp nevertheless comes to love little Heidi, and she him. Just as Heidi begins to grow fond of her new mountain family and friends, she is suddenly taken to Frankfurt to be a companion to Clara, an invalid. Although she brings great joy into Clara's life, Heidi pines...
7) Mananaland
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Max, who loves the legend Buelo tells him about a mythical gatekeeper who can guide brave travelers on a journey into tomorrow, sets out on a dangerous quest to discover if he is true of heart and what the future holds, armed with a treasured compass, a mysterious stone rubbing, and Buelo's legend as his only guides.
8) Stardust
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A girl who is always outshined by her older sister is comforted by her grandfather, who reminds her that everything and everyone is made of stardust that shines in all different ways.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifth grader Robbie is determined to stay out of trouble so that she does not worry her grandfather whose memory is failing and to make sure that she and her grandfather stay together as he is the only family she has left.
10) Grandpa and me
Author
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A rhyming story about how a young bear and his grandpa spend the day together.
13) Caleb's story
Author
Series
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Sequel to: Skylark.
The stranger lurking on the Witting family's prairie farm turns out to be their long-lost grandfather, whose presence plus prodding from Sarah forces Jacob to deal with his past.
15) Tea time
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Grampy invites Frannie to tee off with him at the golf course, Frannie and her mother misunderstand and pack a picnic basket for a lovely tea time.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Merci Suárez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older brother, Roli, are scholarship students. They don't have a big house or a fancy boat, and they have to do extra community service to make up for their free tuition. So when bossy Edna Santos sets her sights on the new boy who happens to be...
17) The good thieves
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1920s New York City, a young girl with a deformed foot recruits her new friends, a female pickpocket and two circus performers, to help recover an emerald from her grandfather's mansion in upstate New York after he loses his home to an unscrupulous tycoon.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Two children provide instructions how to properly read to a grandmother or a grandfather, including how to choose a good book, how to use different voices, and where to find the perfect place to cuddle up and read.
19) The runaways
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Grandpa's in the hospital and hating it. He swears at the nurses and makes trouble for everyone. Dad finds it too stressful to visit, but Gottfried Junior visits Grandpa as often as he's allowed, and when he's not allowed, he goes anyway. Grandpa thinks only of the place he was happiest-the island where he lived with Grandma before she died. He wants to go back one last time, but they won't let him out of the hospital. Gottfried Junior and Grandpa...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Rob, a painfully shy wallflower, receives a series of mysterious text messages challenging him to leave his comfort zone as he tries to impress new student Destry Camberwick.
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