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1) The witches
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.
Author
Language
English
Description
An audiobook narrator, former actress Sewanee Chester, after having a one-night stand with a handsome stranger in Las Vegas, returns home to narrate a romance novel and forms a connection with the anonymous author, but when his identity is finally revealed, she must risk everything for desire.
The days of being a star on film sets are long behind Sewanee Chester. She has found success and satisfaction as an audiobook narrator, and it allows her to...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-one-year-old Marigold Claude has always preferred the company of the spirits of the meadow to any of the suitors who've tried to woe her. So, when her grandmother whisks her away to her cottage on the tiny Isle of Innisfree with an offer to trainher as the next Honey Witch, she accepts immediately. But her newfound magic and independence comes with a price: no one can fall in love with the Honey Witch. When Lottie Burke, a notoriously grumpy...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sadie Revelare has always believed that the curse of four heartbreaks that accompanies her magic would be worth the price. But when her grandmother is diagnosed with cancer with only weeks to live, and her first heartbreak, Jake McNealy, returns to townafter a decade, her carefully structured life begins to unravel. With the news of their grandmother's impending death, Sadie's estranged twin brother Seth returns to town, bringing with him deeply...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
A charming, warmhearted novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller A Man Called Ove.
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy—as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother's stories, in the Land-of-Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas, where...
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy—as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother's stories, in the Land-of-Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas, where...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Jessie gets ready to celebrate the New Year at his grandmother's house, except things are different this year after the fire and his grandmother having to go to the hospital, but when the New Year's bell is stolen from atop Lovell Hill, Jessie wonders how they will manage to ring in the new year without it.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What is love?" a young boy asks. "I can't answer that," his grandmother says, and so the boy goes out into the world to find out. But while each person he meets—the fisherman, the actor, and others—has an answer to his question, not one seems quite right. Could love really be a fish, or applause, or the night? Or could it actually be something much closer to home?
10) The ebony swan
Author
Language
English
Description
When Susan Prentice returns to her childhood home in Virginia 25 years after witnessing the death of her mother, Dolores, she wishes only to become reacquainted with her formidable grandmother, Alex, a former ballerina. But Susan finds herself isolated in a hostile environment, her relatives obviously fearful that she might recall hitherto repressed memories of the tragedy. Alex is correct but reserved, while her eccentric cousin Theresa is openly...
Author
Series
Sisters Grimm volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead.
12) The Tender Years
Author
Series
Prairie Legacy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Twenty years have passed since youngest daughter Belinda's story in Love Finds a Home. Marty and Clark's spirtiual heritage has been lovingly passed on to their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. And now beloved granddaughter Virginia faces the test of her young life. Caught in that difficult period between childhood and adulthood, feeling that she really doesn't fit anywhere, Virginia struggles against what she considers to be...
Author
Series
Junie B. Jones series volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lucille invites Junie B. and her friend Grace to sleep over at her very rich nanna's house, where everything is beautiful, expensive, and breakable.
15) Tending roses
Author
Series
Tending roses volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours comes a heartfelt novel about the bonds of family and the power of second chances.
When Kate Bowman temporarily moves to her grandmother’s Missouri farm with her husband and baby son, she learns that the lessons that most enrich our lives often come unexpectedly. The family has given Kate the job...
When Kate Bowman temporarily moves to her grandmother’s Missouri farm with her husband and baby son, she learns that the lessons that most enrich our lives often come unexpectedly. The family has given Kate the job...
16) Yucky worms
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
While helping Grandma in the garden, a child learns about the important role of the earthworm in helping plants grow.
17) The giant hug
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Owen sends a real hug to his grandmother for her birthday he inadvertently brings cheer to the postal workers as they pass the hug along.
Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up in the middle of the night and tells her they need to leave home immediately, and this time Granny intends for them never to return.
19) Ferris
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When her grandson Patrick arrives for his first sleepover, Granny's resourceful efforts to provide him with a bed, pillow, and other necessities result in a sleepless night for both of them.
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