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"Life is meant to be savored, but that's not easy with no family, limited prospects and a past you'd rather not talk about. Still, Callie Smith doesn't know how to feel when she discovers she has a brother and a sister-- Malcolm, who grew up with affection, wealth and privilege, and Keira, a streetwise twelve-year-old. Callie doesn't love being alone, but at least it's safe. Despite her trepidation, she moves into the grand family home with her siblings...
22) Odd is left
Author
Publisher
[Michael Frederick]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Johnny "JT" Tower is a sports legend in the small town of North Woodbury, South Dakota, still living in a trailer next to the tavern his parents owned before retiring to California. After receiving an invitation to his 25 year high school reunion, JT embarks on a trail of self-discovery, enlisting his parents, grandfather Eldon, and Coach Blodough to help him prepare to see Iris, the love of his life who disappeared after graduation.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
One side of this upside-down book celebrates all of the things grandmas do for their grandchildren. Turning the book over and around produces a similar celebration of grandpas.
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English
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"Walt Longmire faces one of his most challenging crime scenes as he tries to reckon with the revelations of his last case where he confronted the ghosts of his past and questioned the very nature of justice and mercy in the hard country of the West. Deepin the heart of the Wyoming countryside, Sheriff of Absaroka County, Walt Longmire, is called to a crime scene like few others that he has seen. This crime brings up issues that go back to Walt's grandfather's...
25) Life expectancy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. When Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks for the first and last time since his stroke, he says that there will be five dark days in the life of his grandson-each occurring at different times of his life. Rudy is all too ready to discount...
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New Americana volume 8
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English
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"Determined to save the family farm from foreclosure, Derby-winning horse trainer Jo Beth Ellis reinvents the property as a healing retreat for horses and makes a deal with her handsome neighbor in hopes of winning a trifecta--a champion horse, a happy family and a forever love"--
27) Six sweets under
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Series
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English
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"Former actress Becca Ransom lived her dream in Hollywood for seven years before returning to her hometown of Larch Haven, known as the Venice of North America. The Vermont town has canals instead of roads, gondolas instead of cars, and charming cottages plucked from the pages of a fairy tale. It's also where Becca is pursuing her newest passion as a chocolatier at True Confections, the chocolate shop owned by her grandparents, Lolly and Pops. While...
28) A reason to die
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Perley Gates westerns volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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From bestselling authors William W. and J.A. Johnstone-the explosive adventures of Perley Gates, who's carving out his own legacy in the violent American frontier . . .
Restless cowpoke Perley Gates wanted nothing more than to track down the grandfather who abandoned his family years ago. What he found was the crazy old sidewinder barely hanging on after a Sioux massacre. The old man's dying wish was to make things right for deserting his kin-by...
29) Caleb's story
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Series
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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.
30) The witnesses
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In the wrong hands, a spiritual gift can be more dangerous than a deadly weapon.Parker House is a young lawyer working for a small, struggling firm in New Bern, North Carolina. His uncanny ability to anticipate an opponent's next move is earning him a reputation as a formidable adversary in the courtroom. This gift is part of Parker's heritage. His grandfather, Franz Haus, was a German soldier who rose rapidly through the ranks of the Nazi party...
31) Me with you
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Philomel Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A little girl describes her relationship with her beloved grandfather.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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English
Description
While his friends prepare for college, Oscar decides his future is working with his grandfather on their food truck Hej Hej!, but when Oscar unexpectedly gets his first taste of adulthood he realizes his plans may be half-baked.
High school senior Oscar Olsson hates school, struggles to read, and wants nothing to do with college. He knows exactly what he wants: to run a food truck with Farfar, the Swedish grandfather who's raised him, selling rullekebab...
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Meg Langslow mysteries volume 27
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English
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"When Meg's grandmother Cordelia hosts a Renaissance Faire at her craft center, the whole family is put to work: Meg handles the blacksmithing, Michael and the boys will be performing, and no one misses the opportunity to dress up in full regalia. More exciting to Grandfather is the pair of rare falcons he discovers breeding at the fairgrounds. Concerned for their well-being amid all the activity, he appoints himself their protector. When one of the...
Author
Series
Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 8
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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In Heart of the Wilderness, young Kendra Marty goes to live with her grandfather after her parents die in a river accident. But what can a trapper living in the backwoods offer a small child? Will Kendra ever be ready to face the scary and confusing world far from the wilderness she loves?
36) The blood years
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Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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From Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold comes the harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania. Frederieke Teitler and her older sister, Astra, live in a house, in a city, in a world divided. Their father ran out on them when Rieke was only six, leaving their mother a wreck and their grandfather as their only stable family. He's done his best to provide for them and shield them...
37) Heartbeat
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and running partner) becomes distant.
38) River boy
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Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Knowing that he is dying, Jess's grandfather insists on returning to the river he had known as a boy to finish a special painting and fulfill a life-long dream.
39) Gentlehands
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1978]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A teenage boy falls in love with an "upper-class" girl and gets to know his estranged grandfather in one heartbreaking summer which climaxes in a shattering search for Nazi war criminals.
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man also named Jonathan Safran Foer sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis.
Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape...
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