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2) The cousins
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After receiving an invitation to spend the summer with their estranged grandmother, the Story cousins arrive at her house only to discover that she is not there, and the longer they stay on the island, the more they realize their mysterious family history has some deadly secrets.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
Kate copes with the changes from her father leaving home, her grandmother, who has dementia, moving in, and her best friend, Sofia, becoming more distant, by trying her grandmother's rules for "everyday magic"--believe, give, and trust.
6) Granny Dan
Author
Language
English
Description
In my eyes she had always been old, always been mine, always been Granny Dan. But in another time, another place, there had been dancing, people, laughter, love. . . . She had had another life before she came to us, long before she came to me. . . .
She was the cherished grandmother who sang songs in Russian, loved to roller-skate, and spoke little of her past. But when Granny Dan died, all that remained was a box wrapped in brown paper,...
She was the cherished grandmother who sang songs in Russian, loved to roller-skate, and spoke little of her past. But when Granny Dan died, all that remained was a box wrapped in brown paper,...
8) Secrets
Author
Series
Michelli family volume 1
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rese Barrett, renovating an old villa in Sonoma, California, into a bed and breakfast, hires Lance Michelli as a cook/maid, not realizing he is the grandson of a former owner and is on a mission to uncover the secrets of his grandmother's past that are making her so unhappy.
Author
Series
Anastasia Krupnik volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Anastasia's 10th year has some good things like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother and some bad things like finding out about an impending baby brother.
11) The stone wall
Author
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Anna Beachy is eager to begin a new chapter in her life as a Lancaster County tour guide in the picturesque area where her Plain grandmother once stayed. Anna wishes she could talk with her about those long-ago days, but the elderly woman suffers from Alzheimer's. Beyond a vague comment about an old stone wall, much about her grandmother's time there is a mystery. As Anna settles into her new community, she finds herself unexpectedly befriended by...
Author
Series
Texas crossroads volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The last thing Kate Sherwood needs is a man, so why is she so drawn to the handsome handyman at the Rainbow's End resort?" --
Author
Series
Fenway and Hattie volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Even though Fenway is disappointed when his best human friend Hattie refuses to remove the Cone of Doom so he can care for his own injury, he is determined to cheer her up when she worries about her grandmother's visit.
Author
Language
English
Description
Aria Tang West was looking forward to a summer on Martha's Vineyard with her best friends--one last round of sand and sun before college. But after a graduation party goes wrong, Aria's parents exile her to California to stay with her grandmother, artist Joan West. Aria expects boredom, but what she finds is Steph Nichols, her grandmother's gardener. Soon, Aria is second-guessing who she is and what she wants to be, and a summer that once seemed lost...
15) Deadline
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Toots Loudenberry and her three best friends finds themselves navigating Hollywood's seedier side when a young starlet goes missing after last being seen with lawyer Chris Clay, the would-be beau of Toots' daughter, Abby.
Author
Series
Merry Ghost Inn mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Melanie West and her grandmother Liza buy a purportedly haunted mansion with plans to turn it into a Bed and Breakfast, but they find a very real skeleton in their closet. In addition to dealing with the police, their own amateur investigation, the closed-mouthed town, their renovation, and a friendly ghost playing tricks, they find a new body that looks chillingly similar to Melanie herself. It's up to Melanie and Liza to get to the bottom of these...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
With the arrival of six senior reading group members at the Merry Ghost Inn, the long-awaited grand opening week has finally begun for Melanie West and her grandmother Liza. All is well with the Oregon coast-side B & B until Melanie's dog, Max, finds the dead body of one of their guests. Everyone at the inn immediately falls under suspicion, including the innkeepers themselves. The ghost that haunts the B&B will have to help Melanie and Liza solve...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out...
Author
Series
Dragon keepers volume 5
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Jesse and Daisy and their dragon friend, Emmy, try to recover a Thunder Egg from merpeople who stole it from Daisy near the Inn of the Barking Seal, where the cousins are visiting their grandmother Polly.
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