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82) My grandparents
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Lenny follows Layla for a school project and learns what it is like to live with grandparents.
83) Sing to the moon
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
For one little Ugandan boy, no wish is too big. First he dreams of reaching the stars and then of riding a supernova straight to Mars. But on a rainy day at his grandfather's house, he is brought down to earth with a bump. Do adventures only happen in galaxies far away or can he find magic a little closer to home? A touching story of a grandfather's love for his grandson and the quiet pleasures of a rainy day.
84) Secrets, book 1
Author
Series
Michelli family volume 1
Description
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...
85) Transhuman
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Luke Abramson, a brilliant cellular biologist who is battling lung cancer, has one joy in life, his ten-year-old granddaughter, Angela. When he learns that Angela has an inoperable brain tumor and is given less than six months to live, Abramson wants to try a new enzyme, Mortality Factor 4 (MORF4), that he believes will kill Angela's tumor. However, the hospital bureaucracy won't let him do it because MORF4 has not yet been approved by the FDA. Knowing...
86) I am just right
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
A boy who is too big for his crib, his tricycle, and being picked up by his grandfather is just the right size for his bed, bicycle, and Grandpa's hugs.
88) A week in winter
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Description
Moorgate is an enchanting old country house that belongs to Maudie Todhunter, a spirited widow. But Maudie can no longer afford a second home, so she reluctantly puts it up for sale. As the story weaves between the past and present, Maudie is startled to uncover patterns of deceit and betrayal that contradict all her most cherished beliefs.
91) The dark above
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
This follow-up to Finley's The Darkest Time of Night continues the alien abduction story of William Chance and his grandmother Lynn Roseworth. It's been 15 years since Lynn brought young William home to safety, but the alien enemy is still out there, and the emotional scars and family rifts have not healed. When the true nature of the power William and others who have been taken reveals itself, the adventure begins.
94) The red tin box
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
On her eighth birthday Maude buries a red tin box with some special treasures at the foot of a flowering dogwood tree and makes a promise to herself--and many years later she and her granddaughter travel to her childhood home to dig it up and pass it on.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Victorian socialite Clara Stanton strives to protect her eccentric family's reputation, but that proves to be difficult when her grandfather takes off on a flight of fancy. Thrown together with vagabond tinker Theodore Kingsley, Clara sets off to follow her grandfather's whimsical adventure and finds love along the way"--
98) Iris and Ruby
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Formats
Description
The unexpected arrival of her willful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to 82-year-old Iris Black's old house in Cairo. Ruby, driven by her fraught relationship with her own mother to run away from England, is seeking refuge with the grandmother she hasn't seen for years. An unlikely bond develops between them, as Ruby helps Iris to record her fading memories of the glittering, cosmopolitan Cairo of World War II, and of her one...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Raised in seclusion by fundamentalist grandparents who claim she is an evil product of her mother's sinful mistake, teenager Elle Edwards finally learns the truth about her conception and struggles with profound feelings of insecurity while pursuing a relationship with a vacationing boy.
100) Gigi and Ojiji
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Gigi can't wait for her Ojiji--Japanese grandpa--to move in. Gigi plans lots of things to do with him, like playing tag, reading books, and teaching Roscoe, the family dog, new tricks. But her plans don't work out quite the way she'd hoped. And her grandpa doesn't seem to like Roscoe. Will Gigi find a way to connect with her Ojiji?"--