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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
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George is alone in the house with Grandma. The most horrid, grizzly old grunion of a grandma ever. She needs something stronger than her usual medicine to cure her grouchiness. A special grandma medicine, a remedy for everything. And George knows just what to put into it. Grandma's in for the surprise of her life—and so is George, when he sees the results of his mixture!
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This heartwarming women's fiction series from beloved New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe centers on Marietta Colson Muir, a dowager of Charleston society who has retired to her historic summer home on Sullivan's Island called Conquest, and her three granddaughters Carson, Eudora, and Harper. It's summer once again on idyllic Sullivan's Island, but Eudora, or Dora as she's affectionately called by her family, is feeling anything but...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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This heartwarming tale of love, life, and friendship by the Newbery Medalist tells the story of how Granny Torrelli's warm words and secret recipes mend a rift between 12-year-old Rosie and her best friend.
With the help of her wise old grandmother, twelve-year-old Rosie manages to work out some problems in her relationship with her best friend, Bailey, the boy next door.
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[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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As he builds a snowbunny, Liplap feels something is missing and wishes his grandmother who recently died was with him. A wonderful sensitive story about children's feeling the sadness and loss after the death of a loved one as seen through the little rabbit, Liplap's eyes.
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Ya-Yas volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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YA-YAS IN BLOOM reveals the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s and roars with all the raw power of Vivi Abbott Walker's 1962 T-Bird through sixty years of marriage, child-raising, and hair-raising family secrets.y.
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Henry and Mudge books volume 9
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Young Henry and his dog, Mudge, are going to Grandmother's house in the country. Henry hopes that his grandmother likes Mudge. He is worried that his huge, gentle friend will have to sleep outside. Although it is surrounded by fields, Grandmother's house is very small. It is filled with lots of things that can fall over or break. There's no room for Mudge. What will happen to Henry's dog out in the night? Cynthia Rylant has won many honors, including...
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A tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book, a beautiful volume of fairy tales. She is taken in by the dockmaster and his wife and raised as their own. On her twenty-first birthday they tell her the truth, and with her sense of self shattered and with very little to go on, "Nell" sets out on a journey to England to try to...
12) Shocks!
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Pub. Date
c.2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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"A young boy steps out of a thunderstorm and onto a strange bus. Like a flash of lightning, his long-gone grandmother suddenly appears on the bus too! Is she there to offer him a gift . . . or a warning? The boy is in for a shocking surprise. " --Amazon.
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Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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Thirteen-year-old Sammy's penchant for speaking her mind gets her in trouble when she involves herself in the investigation of a robbery at the "seedy" hotel across the street from the seniors' building where she is living with her grandmother.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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A rhyming celebration of grandmothers, including those who are mischievous ticklers, those who once wore bell bottoms and marched for equal rights, and those who are nearly family and just as loving. Includes a list of names for grandmothers in different languages.
15) Those shoes
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2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Jeremy, who longs to have the black high tops that everyone at school seems to have but his grandmother cannot afford, is excited when he sees them for sale in a thrift shop and decides to buy them even though they are the wrong size.
16) The cookcamp
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Alida volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
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During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness.
18) Secrets, book 1
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Michelli family volume 1
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Long-hidden secrets unveiled at a lovely old villa. Antonia stared out the Studebaker's rear window as it sped away from her grandfather Quillan's Sonoma villa, leaving behind the vineyard that had been life to her family, a life now lost. The old villa needed what Rese Barrett could do as well as any man on the crew. Trained by the best, she had honed her skills with a passion for quality, an eye for detail, and no room for compromise. Renovation...
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Baby-sitters Club (revised editions) volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
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Claudia's participation in the Baby-sitters Club is curtailed when Grandmother Mimi suffers a stroke and Claudia finds herself "Mimi-sitting" and fighting more frequently with her sister.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
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In 1911, when orphaned ten-year-old Inge comes to live with her stern grandmother in a remote island village in Bornholm, Denmark, she ends up changing the climate of the town, bringing joy and laughter to her grandmother's life and finding a new family for herself to help assuage her grief over losing her mother.