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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.
24) Jake
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Jake forms an unexpected bond with his estranged grandfather after his mother's injury puts the pair together in time for the Christmas holiday.
25) On Noah's ark
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Noah's granddaughter helps him bring the animals onto the ark, calm them down, and get them to sleep.
Author
Series
Boxcar children special volume 10
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While visiting Chicago with their grandfather, the Alden children begin receiving mysterious clues to a treasure hunt.
28) Skyfishing
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A young girl helps her grandfather adjust to his new home in the city with her family by inventing a fantastical fishing game"--
Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
American college student Jonathan Safran Foer sets out, along with Ukranian travel agent Alex Perchov, Alex's depressive grandfather, and the family dog, in an attempt to find the village where a Ukranian woman might or might not have saved Jonathan's grandfather from the Nazis during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Pearl and her popular, thirteen-year-old sister, Lexie, do not get along very well, but when their grandfather moves in and the girls have to share a room, they must find common ground.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
After an injury ends former star pitcher Peter Friedman's athletic dreams, he concentrates on photography which leads him to a girlfriend, new fame as a high school sports photographer, and a deeper relationship with the beloved grandfather who, when he realizes he is becoming senile, gives Pete all of his professional camera gear.
33) Lemons
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After her mother dies in 1975, ten-year-old Lemonade must live with her grandfather in a small town famous for Bigfoot sightings and soon becomes friends with Tobin, a quirky Bigfoot investigator.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"After having saved the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back in Florida with his peculiar friends, where they set out on a journey across America to discover the truth about Jacob's grandfather"--
35) Caleb's story
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The stranger lurking on the Witting family's prairie farm turns out to be their long-lost grandfather, whose presence plus prodding from Caleb forces Jacob to deal with his past.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Dixie Hemingway, a pet sitter in Sarasota, Florida, becomes caught up in a dangerous situation when she is kidnapped from the home of Mr. Stern, a new client, by thugs who mistake her for Stern's granddaughter Ruby, a young mother who is planning to impress her husband by revealing what she knows about a group of wealthy locals who have cheated innocent investors out of their money.
37) Kindred souls
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten year-old Jake shares a special bond with his grandfather, Billy, but when Billy asks Jake to build him a sod house, Jake is not sure he wants to do it.
38) Avenger
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Danny, his grandfather, Fergus, who is an ex-SAS explosives expert, and friend Elena set out to stop the evil computer hacker who is sending teenaged suicide bombers to their deaths around the world.
39) In plain sight
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"An ailing grandfather and his helpful granddaughter play a unique game of seek and find"--
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lulu, who likes to dress in a ladybug costume, wants to learn everything when she visits the natural history museum with Grandpa, but as she moves from exhibit to exhibit, she discovers that sometimes you have to slow down to appreciate the wonder of whatis around you.
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