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English
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From age seven, Loma relishes traveling with her beloved grandfather across fifteenth-century Spain, working to keep the Jews safe, but soon realizes she must also make sacrifices to help her people. Includes historical notes, recipe, glossary, and a link to a bibliography.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Latinx Authors: Books for Elementary Grades
Latinx Authors: Books for Middle Grade
Newbery Medal Award Winners
Latinx Authors: Books for Middle Grade
Newbery Medal Award Winners
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Description
Merci Suárez begins the sixth grade and knows things will change, but she did not count on her grandfather acting strangely, not fitting in at her private school, and dealing with Edna Santos' jealousy.
4) Heartbeat
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and running partner) becomes distant.
5) The wanderer
Author
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat, which, along with uncles and another cousin, is en route to visit their grandfather in England.
Author
Series
Lotterys volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Once upon a time, two couples with Jamaican, Mohawk, Indian, and Scottish ethnic roots won the lottery and bought a big house where all of them, four adults and seven adopted and biological children, could live together in harmony--but change is inevitable, especially when a disagreeable grandfather comes to stay.
8) The turnover
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
�2020.
Language
English
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Description
"When a young basketball star decides to research his grandfather--and coach--for a school project, he uncovers a decades-old scandal that changes everything he thought he knew about his grandfather"--
Author
Publisher
MIT Kids Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Ada knows that the best place for star-gazing is on the island in Maine where she vacations with her grandparents. By day, she tracks osprey in the trees, paddles a kayak, and hunts for shells. But she's most in her element when the sun goes down and the stars blink to life. Will the fog this year foil her plans, or will her grandfather find a way to shine a spotlight on the vast puzzle of the universe ... until the weather turns?"--
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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American Indian Youth Literature Award
Indigenous Authors: Books for Elementary Grades
Indigenous Authors: Books for Middle Grade
Indigenous Authors: Books for Elementary Grades
Indigenous Authors: Books for Middle Grade
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Teased for his fair coloring, eleven-year-old Jimmy McClean travels with his maternal grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, to learn about his Lakota heritage while visiting places significant in the life of Crazy Horse, the nineteenth-century Lakota leader and warrior, in a tale that weaves the past with the present. Includes historical note and glossary.
12) Quiet
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
While observing the busy world around them, two children and their grandfather take a moment to appreciate being quiet and still.
Author
Series
Horrible Harry volume 16
Language
English
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Description
Miss Mackle's third graders share December holiday traditions --Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Three Kings Day, and Korean New Year-- with each other and with Harry's great grandfather, who has just moved to a nursing home.
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
After bungling his audition to play the Scarecrow in The Wiz, fifth-grader Ailey is magically transported to 1930s Harlem where he meets his own grandfather and legendary tap dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.
16) Circus Mirandus
Author
Series
Circus Mirandus volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
"When he realizes that his grandfather's stories of an enchanted circus are true, Micah Tuttle sets out to find the mysterious Circus Mirandus--and to use its magic to save his grandfather's life"--
18) Mañanaland
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Max, who loves the legend Buelo tells him about a mythical gatekeeper who can guide brave travelers on a journey into tomorrow, sets out on a dangerous quest to discover if he is true of heart and what the future holds, armed with a treasured compass, a mysterious stone rubbing, and Buelo's legend as his only guides.
19) Drawn together
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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2019 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 2 & 3
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Picture Books
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Picture Books
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
Description
A boy and his grandfather cross a language and cultural barrier using their shared love of art, storytelling, and fantasy.
20) The birdwatchers
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Intrigued by her granddad's stories of what happens when she goes birdwatching, Jess decides to accompany him one day.
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