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Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 3
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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Description
Joey tries to keep his life from degenerating into total chaos when his mother sends him to be home-schooled with a hostile blind girl, his divorced parents cannot stop fighting, and his grandmother is dying of emphysema.
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Abue nada más se quiere acostar, pero todavía se puede jugar--maguillala bien y hazla brillar! --
Birdie provides instructions on how to give her tired grandma a makeover, complete with facial hair removal, cosmetics application, massage, and accessorizing.
Author
Language
English
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Description
When Candice finds a letter in an old attic in Lambert, South Carolina, she isn't sure she should read it. It's addressed to her grandmother, who left the town in shame. But the letter describes a young woman. An injustice that happened decades ago. A mystery enfolding the letter-writer. And the fortune that awaits the person who solves the puzzle. So with the help of Brandon Jones, the quiet boy across the street, she begins to decipher the clues....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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2020-2021 Middle School TAB Nominations
2021 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 5 & 6
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Elementary
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2021 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 5 & 6
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Elementary
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Description
Sixth-graders Lauren and Tara have always done everything together so it is only natural that they both try out for their middle school musical play, about an "all-American" girl in 1958; Tara gets the lead role, as usual, because in the teacher's mind Lauren, half-Jewish and half-Chinese, does not fit the image of all-American girl--Lauren is hurt but resolved to support her friend, but her two grandmothers are furious and they intend to do something...
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"A picture book about the fall season, centering on Bella, a little girl who has outgrown but does not want to give up her favorite coat made by her grandmother, and how she deals with the inevitable change to something new"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
Wanting to follow in the footsteps of her free-diving haenyeo grandmother, a young Korean girl dutifully consumes her grandmother's strength-building abalone porridge and practices her breath control before suiting up and overcoming fears to make remarkable discoveries.
55) Measuring Up
Author
Language
English
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2020-2021 Middle School TAB Nominations
2020-2021 Middle School TAB Nominations E-Books and E-Audiobooks
2021 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 5 & 6
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2020-2021 Middle School TAB Nominations E-Books and E-Audiobooks
2021 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 5 & 6
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An ALA Top 10 Graphic Novel of 2021 · A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection · Fall 2020 Kids Indie Next List · Featured in Today Show's AAPI Heritage Month List · Amazon Best Books November Selection · Cybils Awards Finalist · An NBC AAPI Selection · Featured in Parents Magazine Book Nook October issue · A CBC Hot off the Press October Selection · WA State Book Awards Finalist · Texas Library Association
...58) Grandma's smile
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A six-year-old boy travels to the coast to help his beloved grandmother find her smile.
59) Green
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Abducted by leprechauns on her thirteenth birthday, Lilybet Green learns that there is more to her family tree--and to her bond with her late grandmother--than she ever imagined.
60) En el bosque
Author
Series
Publisher
Fondo de Cultural Economica
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
Español
Description
After his father seems to disappear, a boy takes a cake to his ill gransdmother, traveling through the forest in a journey.
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