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Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Once, in a tiny village in India, there was a young boy who loved to paint. He lived with his grandfather, who taught him to paint with his fingers, to make paints from marigolds and brushes made from jasmine flowers. Sometimes, the village children would watch them painting together, and the boy's grandfather would invite them to join in. They didn't have much, but they had each other. After his grandfather dies, the boy notices a little box wrapped...
2) Like a charm
Author
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Like a charm volume 1
Language
English
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"Ramya Knox is used to feeling cursed. People only notice her long enough to call her a troublemaker. Except Grandpa. He sees Ramya and her neurodiversity as enchanting. But when Grandpa dies, Ramya's world loses its charm...until she discovers he left behind one big secret: that magic is real and Ramya can see it. Trolls, vampires, kelpies, and more fantastical beings hide in the shadows for Ramya to discover. But the Hidden Folk need protection...
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Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Feeling most alive when he's playing the blues with his grandfather, Clayton is devastated when his grandfather dies and his mother forbids him from playing music, losses that compel him to run away and join bluesmen on the road.
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Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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After her grandfather's death, a young girl explores her Baba Bazorg's house. As the girl wanders through the house, almost idly, her Baba Bazorg's house stands in for the man himself, with each object she describes standing as a touchstone to a memory, and each memory serving as a window into the relationship between the child and her grandfather. As she looks through its rooms, the things she sees and the object she touches bring to life memories...
6) One day
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Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A story about loss and connection. After his grandfather dies, a young boy tries to deal with his grief and imagines where his grandfather is.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lily Pruitt loves her grandparents, but she doesn't love the circus -- and the circus is their life. She's perfectly happy to stay with her father, away from her neglectful mother and her grandfather's elephant, Queenie Grace. Queenie Grace, a circus elephant, is happy to have Grandpa Bill as her keeper. She has had cruel keepers in the past, but Bill is her friend and treats her with love and respect. She doesn't quite understand...
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Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Alice keeps a perfectly round skipping stone in her pocket to remember her grandfather by -- but the stone goes missing. It looked just like a regular stone, but Alice knew it was different: It was perfectly round so you could use it to trace circles, and sometimes she could trick her dad into thinking it was a quarter. It was also how Alice remembered her grandpa, who taught her how to skip stones, and who passed away last winter. Alice brings the...
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Series
Murder most unladylike volume 7
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When her grandfather dies, fourteen-year-old amateur detective Hazel Wong and her best friend Daisy Wells travel to Hong Kong, where the girls find themselves framed for murder and tangled up in a family mystery.
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