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Author
Publisher
FaithWords
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
As Mona and Ken Sorenson approach their well-planned retirement, Ken wonders if he can abandon everything he has worked to achieve at work, just as their son looks to them to care for his two young children while he is deployed in Afghanistan.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two...
Author
Series
Fablehaven volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Kendra and Seth return to Fablehaven, they discover that Grandpa Sorenson has asked three specialists to protect the property from the Society of the Evening Star, a group determined to steal an artifact of great power from the preserve.
Author
Series
Fablehaven volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seth attempts to halt a plague that is turning Fablehaven's beings of light into creatures of darkness, while his sister Kendra and the Knights of the Dawn attempt to retrieve an artifact before the Society of the Evening Star.
10) Fablehaven
Author
Series
Fablehaven volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When Kendra and Seth go to stay at their grandparents' estate, they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and that a battle between good and evil is looming.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Despite losing her parents in a tragic accident just before her fourteenth Christmas, Susan Norcross has had it better than most, with loving grandparents to raise her and a gang of quirky, devoted friends to support her. Now a successful bookstore owner in a tight-knit Michigan lakeside community, Susan is facing down forty--the same age as her mother when she died--and she can't help but see everything she hasn't achieved, including finding a love...
13) Grandpa Green
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A child explores the ordinary life of his extraordinary great-grandfather, as expressed in his topiary garden.
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
When she receives the news in late 1944 that her baby's father was shot down in the South Pacific, Amelia Richards loses hope. Jobless and broke, she has nowhere to turn for help but her infant's paternal grandparents. The only problem is, they don't know that she-- or their grandson-- exists. When Amelia discovers that the family is wealthy and influential, dare she disclose the truth of her relationship with their son?
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sara Murray had never met her mother's parents and was surprised to learn after her death that they were Amish living in Pennsylvania. When she is finally able to make the trip to meet them, she is shocked to learn someone else has been living with them and pretending to be Sara. Sara can't understand how quickly her grandparents are willing to forgive the imposter. Secrets and deceit seem to follow Sara, and she is so tired of it. Though soon she...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
CHRISTMAS COLLECTION. While spending Christmas at their grandparents' farm, Lily becomes convinced that her younger brother Liam is right about White Cow being lonely and helps him seek a companion for her, leaving little time for Christmas preparations or reading.
Author
Series
Fablehaven volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When Kendra and Seth go to stay at their grandparents' estate, they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and that a battle between good and evil is looming.
20) My elephant
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
What to do when Grandma and Grandpa are too busy to play? Ask the elephant, of course! He's loads of fun, even if he squashes the flower bed and breaks a few things around the house.