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1) Fablehaven
Author
Series
Fablehaven volume 1
Language
English
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Description
When Kendra and Seth go to stay at their grandparents' estate, they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and that a battle between good and evil is looming.
Author
Language
English
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Description
When his daughter, Amy, collapses and dies from an asymptomatic heart condition, Rosenblatt and his wife leave their home on Long Island to move in with their son-in-law and their three young grandchildren. He peels back the layers on this most personal of losses to create a testament to familial love.
Author
Series
Love comes softly series volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Clark and Marty visit their daughter Missie and her husband Willie in the far West and meet their two little grandsons, but their faith is tested once again when the visit is marred by a tragic accident.
Author
Series
Horrible Harry volume 26
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Third-grader Harry thinks of a way to patch up a conflict with his schoolmate Mary and include his friends in a fun detective case with rewards for everyone, including Grandpa.
Author
Publisher
TumbleBooks.com
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Saturdays and Sundays are very special days for the child in this story. On Saturdays, she visits Grandma and Grandpa, who come from a European-American background, and on Sundays--los domingos--she visits Abuelito y Abuelita, who are Mexican-American. While the two sets of grandparents are different in many ways, they also have a great deal in common--in particular, their love for their granddaughter.
8) Big Mama
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Winner of an Academy Award in the Documentary Short category, Big Mama depicts a devoted grandmother's struggle to raise her orphaned grandson under the watchful eye of a complex and difficult social welfare system. Big Mama follows 18 months in the lives of Viola Dees, an African American grandmother, and Walter, her grandson, as she tries to raise him alone in South Central Los Angeles. Dees has taken care of Walter since the age of four, when his...
13) Abuelos
Author
Publisher
Groundwood
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Young Ray and Amelia move to a new village and experience the fright and fun of los abuelos for the first time. The tradition of "los abuelos" comes from northern New Mexico.
14) Buried in a bog
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
While visiting the small Irish village where her Gran was born, Maura Donovan takes a job in one of the local pubs where she can get to know the people who knew her Gran, but instead, finds herself mired in a homicide investigation when a body is discovered in a nearby bog.
15) Grand
Author
Series
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Presents a visual essay on the universal relationship between children and their grandparents, and features photographs from a diverse range of ethnic, cultural, and socio-economic regions of the world.
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 20
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2010], c1994
Language
English
Description
In addition to her grandparents' unusual fatigue and their farm's unusual barrenness, Jodie notices the single scarecrow that once stood in the cornfield has been replaced by a dozen creepy ones that come to life at night.
Author
Series
Fablehaven volume 5
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Since ancient times, the great demon prison Zzyzx has protected the world from the most dangerous servants of darkness, including Gorgrog, the Demon King. After centuries of plotting, the Sphinx is on the verge of recovering the five artifacts necessary to open the legendary prison. To thwart the Sphinx's designs and find a safe home for the five artifacts, Kendra, Seth, and the Knights of the Dawn must venture far beyond the walls of Fablehaven in...
Author
Publisher
TumbleBooks.com
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A flying goat, buttons the size of sleds, and a castle on Hester Street are some of the widely imaginative stories Julie's grandpa tells her about his journey from Russia to New York many years ago. But Grandma's no-nonsense memories are far different from Grandpa's tall tales.
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