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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"On the rooftop of her Chengdu apartment building, Granny teaches the neighborhood children how to care for her vegetable garden like she does: with love, patience and pride, in this beautiful story of how one person can bring together an entire community"--
Author
Series
Cisco family volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Language
English
Description
The citizens of small town Larkspur, Pennsylvania, draw together when local resident and candy magnate Loretta Cisco's house is leveled in a tornado, and to make things worse, Cisco's triplet grandchildren, all newlyweds, are having marital troubles and refuse to share what is bothering them.
3) Homecoming
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia. Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Having lived and worked in London for two...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Two-disc set includes: The Witches (1990). An enchanting, thrilling fantasy starring Anjelica Huston as the leader of a coven of evil witches who wants to turn all of England's children into mice. A young boy accidentally stumbles into their meeting and is transformed into a rodent, but he and his grandmother have a plan to turn the tides on the sorceress. ...The Witches (2020). Back in 1968, orphaned Chicago kid Charlie Hansen (Jahzir Bruno) felt...
Author
Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
Rocio has grown up in Central America, but now she and her family are moving to the United States. Rocio does her best to adjust to a new way of living, but there are many things she misses from her old life--Abuela's cooking, Abuela's pinata creations, Abuela's warm hugs, and of course, Abuela herself most of all. But Abuela finds a way to send Rocio something special just in time for her birthday--a gift wrapped with lots of love--and that fills...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: While her grandmother was alive, Emma's world was filled with enchantment. But now Gram is gone, and suddenly strange spots are appearing on Emma's skin. Soon, she's diagnosed with vitiligo-a condition that makes patches of her skin lose their color-and the magic in her world is suddenly replaced with school bullies and doctor appointments. But when Emma writes one last story in the journal she shared with Gram, something strange...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
Español
Formats
Description
�C�omo expresarte cuando sientes que nadie te escucha? En esta conmovedora novela en verso que Lisa Fipps, autora galardonada con un Printz Honor Award, llama "potente" , una ni�na enfrenta su segundo a�no de escuela intermedia mientras lidia con problemas de salud mental. Deber�a encontrar la manera de usar su voz para pedir la ayuda y la comprensi�on que merece.
Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental...
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
c2023.
Edition
First Spanish-language edition.
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando una estudiante es asignada el trabajo de completar un árbol familiar y solo puede contar tres generaciones atrás, Abuela junta a toda la familia, y la estudiante aprende que hace 400 años, en 1619, sus antepasados fueron robados y traídos a los Estados Unidos por esclavizadores europeos. Pero antes de eso, ellos tenían un hogar, una tierra, un idioma."--Inside cover.
"A young student receives a family tree assignment in school, but she...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The middle-grade debut of star picture-book author and illustrator Danielle Daniel. Adventurous, trail-blazing Wolf lives in a northern mining town and spends her days exploring the mountains and wilderness with her three best friends: Penny, Ann, and Brandi. The girls' secret refuge is their treehouse hideaway, Birchwood, Wolf's favourite place on earth. After her beloved grandmother tells her that she is the great-granddaughter of a tree talker,...
12) A brighter dawn
Author
Series
Amish memories volume 1
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"When Ivy Zimmerman's Mennonite parents are killed in a tragic accident, her way of life is upended. As she grows suspicious that her parents' deaths weren't an accident, she gains courage from her Amish great-grandmother's time in pre-war Germany in 1937. With the inspiration of her great-grandmother, Ivy seeks justice for her parents, her sisters, and herself"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Everybody stays home on the Fourth of July," said Lucy.
"No," said Uncle Pete. "Everbody goes swimming on the Fourth of July. They go swimming and they have a picnic."
And the Littles do, too! The Littles are planning a surprise party for a special member of the family. It will a Fourth of July they will never forget.
14) Spicy spicy hot
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lintang is determined to embrace the spice of sambal in order to connect with her Indonesian grandmother and heritage.
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Esther Larson has been cooking for funerals in the Northwoods of Wisconsin for seventy years. Known locally as the "funeral ladies," she and her cohort have worked hard to keep the mourners of Ellerie County fed--it is her firm belief that there is very little a warm casserole and a piece of cherry pie can't fix. But, after falling for an internet scam that puts her home at risk, the proud Larson family matriarch is the one in need of help these days....
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Connected through time to her great-grandmother by a shared English countryside home, an American nurse tries to piece together her family's tangled history. England, 2019: Audrey Collins knows only two things about her beloved grandmother's past: She was born into nobility and she immigrated to America at seventeen years old. So when Audrey inherits her gran's home in North Yorkshire, she arrives expecting a sprawling country estate fit for lords...
Author
Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Rocio has grown up in Central America, but now she and her family are moving to the United States. Rocio does her best to adjust to a new way of living, but there are many things she misses from her old life--Abuela's cooking, Abuela's pinata creations, Abuela's warm hugs, and of course, Abuela herself most of all. But Abuela finds a way to send Rocio something special just in time for her birthday--a gift wrapped with lots of love--and that fills...
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