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81) Grumpy pumpkins
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
c1988.
Language
English
Description
Molly Duff wonders if Halloween will be fun this year when the Pee Wee Scouts decide to have their costume party at the nursing home where her grumpy grandpa lives.
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
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...
84) Faraway Grandpa
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Kathleen's grandfather shows signs of aging when his memory begins to fail him.
Author
Series
Junie B. Jones volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Junie B. is very upset when a boy in her class plans to invite everyone except her to his birthday party, but her grandfather helps her deal with the situation.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Every Saturday, while helping polish the lens of the lighthouse his grandfather tends, nine-year-old Will tells a tale he hopes will top Grandad's, but Grandad always wins until Dad reminds Will of a long-forgotten escapade with his brother.
88) Chasing Augustus
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
During a rough year in which she was placed in the care of her prickly grandfather after her father suffered a stroke, Rosie embarks on a search for her missing dog after he is given away by her estranged mother.
89) Bartleby speaks!
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
As he grows from infancy to three-years of age, Bartleby Huddle remains quiet, not speaking a word, until the day Grampy Huddle arrives and discovers the solution.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Intimate stranger is a poetic and emotional jigsaw puzzle carved out of the voluminous memorabilia of his grandfather's life story. Family members try to make sense of it all in this witty, candid and cinematically inventive documentary biography. In nobody's business, Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant and graceful study of family history and memory.
93) Butterfly house
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
With the help of her grandfather, a little girl makes a house for a larva and watches it develop before setting it free.
95) The great spruce
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The spruce tree his grandfather planted means a lot to Alec, so when men from the city want to use as a Christmas tree, Alec offers a compromise.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Lizzie Chu has lived with her Wai Gong (grandfather) in Glasgow since her parents died when she was a baby. But Wai Gong has been acting different lately. He spends a lot of time talking to his Guan Yin statue--the Chinese goddess of compassion, kindness, and mercy--at his altar and seems to be becoming more forgetful. Even the shared passion he and Lizzie have for their favorite show, Strictly Come Dancing, seems to be tailing off....
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Over the course of a year, a young child and their dog watch kingfishers by the river with Grandpa. As spring turns to summer and autumn to winter, the kingfishers raise a family, while Grandpa teaches his grandchild about the power of nature and the circle of life.
99) Behind the mask
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Kimin, a young Korean-American boy, has trouble deciding on a Halloween costume, but as he looks through an old trunk of his grandfather's things, he suddenly unlocks a childhood mystery.
100) Grandad's island
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"At the bottom of Syd's garden, through the gate and past the tree, is Grandad's house. Syd can let himself in any time he likes. But one day when Syd comes to call, Grandad isn't in any of the usual places. He's in the attic, where he ushers Syd through a door, and the two of them journey to a wild, beautiful island awash in color where Grandad decides he will remain. So Syd hugs Grandad one last time and sets sail for home. Visiting Grandad's house...
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