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1) Tom
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Once again Tomie dePaola draws upon his childhood, this time telling about his Irish grandfather, who says to him, "We're named after each other, Tommy. That's why I want to you to call me Tom, instead of Grandpa." They share a lot of silly times, which dePaola recounts in this charming book.
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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When young Kendra, an orphan living with her Indian grandmother and trapper grandfather in the wilds, is sent away for schooling, she must make some very difficult choices about her future. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
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Charlie and Mouse volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Brothers Charlie and Mouse enjoy a special visit from Grumpy.
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Lori Wick presents a new standalone in the tradition of her bestselling Sophie's Heart. After losing her parents, Arcineh Bryant lives with her grandfather as a girl. But growing up without her family causes her to hold resentment toward the man who took her in. Years later, when she meets a man she thinks she may love, she doubts whether she can trust her own heart. A character-rich journey leads Arcineh back to her grandfather's home where there...
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Regarded by Charles Dickens as his best novel upon publication, "Martin Chuzzlewit" relates a tale of familial selfishness and eventual moral redemption. First published serially from 1842 to 1844, it is the story of young Martin Chuzzlewit, who has been raised by his grandfather. He has fallen in love with his grandfather's ward and caretaker, the young orphan Mary Graham. Martin's grandfather does not approve and young Martin alienates himself from...
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Walt Longmire mysteries volume 19
Walt Longmire novel volume 19
A Longmire Mystery
Walt Longmire mystery volume 19
Walt Longmire novel volume 19
A Longmire Mystery
Walt Longmire mystery volume 19
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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. Deep in 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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Young Cedric is quite happy living with his widowed mother in New York and visiting with his best friend. The Cedric learns that he is Lord Fauntleroy and will one day become an Earl. But in order to claim his title, he will have to leave behind everything he knows to live with his hard-hearted grandfather in England. Can Cedric win over his grandfather? And is he the real Lord Fauntleroy?
11) Stone Fox
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters.
12) The Gullywasher
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Leticia's grandfather, who was a vaquero as a young man, provides fanciful explanations for how he got his wrinkles, white hair, round belly, and stooped frame.
13) Mañanaland
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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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.
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Fourteenth goldfish volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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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.
15) Ocean meets sky
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Pub. Date
c2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"A little boy builds a ship to honor his late grandfather and sets sail for the magical place where ocean meets sky from his grandfather's stories"--
16) The return
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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Trevor Benson never intended to move back to New Bern, North Carolina. But when a mortar blast outside the hospital where he worked as an orthopedic surgeon sent him home from Afghanistan with devastating injuries, the dilapidated cabin he'd inherited from his grandfather seemed as good a place to regroup as any. Tending to his grandfather's beloved bee hives while preparing for a second stint in medical school, Trevor isn't prepared to fall in love...
17) The wild woods
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Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Grandfather explains to Jess as they walk in the woods why she can not keep the squirrel they see for a pet.
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Series
Lotterys volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
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Nine-year-old Sumac Lottery is happily living with four parents (one lesbian couple and one gay couple), six siblings from multicultural backgrounds, and five rescue pets. But when Grandpa Grumps, who Sumac has never met because he's been estranged from the family, comes to live with them, his disapproving attitude toward the life Sumac loves is hard to take.
19) Heartbeat
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
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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.
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Pub. Date
2016.
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"Calvin Sidey is a cowboy of the old-school, no-guff sort--steely, hardened, with his own personal code. It's the 1960s, and he's living off the grid in a stifling trailer on the prairie when his adult son Bill seeks his help. A mostly absentee father, and a virtual no-show as a grandfather, Calvin nevertheless reluctantly agrees to stay with his grandchildren for a week. He decamps for his son's dark and musty basement, to the small town where he...