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1) Heidi
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
4) Gilead
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In 1956, toward the end of his life, Reverend John Ames begins a letter to his young son, sharing the story of his life and explaining how his faith influenced his choices and actions.
5) Tom
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Aside from having the same name, Tommy and his grandfather Tom share a sense of humor.
7) The Beeman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In rhyming text, a child describes the work Grandpa does to take care of honeybees and harvest the honey they make.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dozing off while contemplating Grandpa's unusual vacation, Kate dreams about Chewandswallow, a town where giant food falls from the sky and is shipped off to hungry people around the world.
10) My two uncles
Author
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Elly's grandfather has trouble accepting the fact that his son is gay.
Author
Publisher
North-South Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mikko the hedgehog is perfectly content living in his garden until Grandfather Tarek suggests that he should accomplish something important in order to be happy like the other animals.
13) The ugly menorah
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
For the first time since her grandfather's death, Rachel feels close to him as she and her grandmother celebrate Hanukkah with the simple menorah that he had made many years ago.
14) Sugaring
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Nora wants to find a way to give the horses a special treat for helping her grandfather and her gather sap to make maple syrup.
16) Life expectancy
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Before he died, Josef Tock spoke an unusual and frightening prophecy that his grandson Jimmy, who was born the same night, would have to endure five dark days in his life beginning in his twentieth year and ending in his thirtieth.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When his beloved grandfather is killed in a storm while leading the swan flock south for the winter, Moonshadow is reassured by his father that the flock will go on with Grandfather always in their hearts.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
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.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After Bill Warrington learns he has Alzheimer's disease he takes his fifteen-year-old granddaughter on a road trip out to California to help her pursue her dreams of stardom, unbeknownst to her mother, and leaves clues along the way with the hope that his estranged adult children will follow the trail.
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