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241) Lost
Author
Publisher
Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A boy and his granddad spend the morning gathering materials to make a sled. When they take it out for a spin, they end up searching for a lost dog. Their snowy adventure takes them all the way to the Arctic, where they are finally able to find the dog-and her new friends!" --Baker & Taylor.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Arrow, a young boy who lives in Seattle, goes on an adventure to visit his grandfather in Alaska aboard Aunt Kelly's salmon boat, spends time with Grampy on his float house, then returns to Seattle with Grampy on a friend's seaplane.
243) All around us
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Finding circles everywhere, a grandfather and his granddaughter meditate on the cycles of life and nature.
244) Gilead
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, GILEAD is a
245) The good thieves
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1920s New York City, a young girl with a deformed foot recruits her new friends, a female pickpocket and two circus performers, to help recover an emerald from her grandfather's mansion in upstate New York after he loses his home to an unscrupulous tycoon.
246) Grandpa and me
Author
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Let's make a pizza with Grandpa! You can help. Lift the large, sturdy flaps to find everything you need.
247) My grandpa and I
Author
Publisher
CandyCane Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
[24] p. : col. ill. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two children describe the wonderful times they have with their grandfather doing such things as watching television, flying kites, and going camping.
248) Song and dance man
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
color illustrations; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this affectionate story, three children follow their grandfather up to the attic, where he pulls out his old bowler hat, gold-tipped cane, and his tap shoes. Grandpa once danced on the vaudeville stage, and as he glides across the floor, the children can see what it was like to be a song and dance man. Gammell captures all the story's inherent joie de vivre with color pencil renderings that leap off the pages. Bespectacled, enthusiastic Grandpa...
249) What time is it?
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
31 p.: col. ill.; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A child is so excited about her grandfather's upcoming visit that she counts down the hours until he arrives.
250) Vera's baby sister
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p.: col. ill.; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The arrival of Vera's new baby sister makes her feel displaced, so her grandfather helps create a special spot, just for her.
251) Finding Orion
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rion Kwirk comes from a rather odd family. His mother named him and his sisters after her favorite constellations, and his father makes funky-flavored jellybeans for a living. One sister acts as if she's always on stage, and the other is a walking dictionary. But no one in the family is more odd than Rion's grandfather, Papa Kwirk. He's the kind of guy who shows up on his motorcycle only on holidays handing out crossbows and stuffed squirrels as...
252) Grandpa's teeth
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Soon after Grandpa's teeth disappear from a glass of water near his bed, Officer Rate has the whole town under investigation.
254) Manatee Summer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Peter and his best friend, Tommy, have a goal for their last summer before middle school: finish their Discovery Journal, a catalog of all the amazing animal species they can find around their Florida town. When Peter meets a manatee (Discovery #95), he knows he's found something special--especially because his grandpa has been telling him enchanting stories about manatees for years.
But Peter quickly learns this summer won't go exactly as planned....
255) Butterfly House
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
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, and every summer after that butterflies come to visit her.
256) War stories
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Trevor Firestone loves playing war-based video games and he idolizes his great-grandfather Jacob who came home from World War II a celebrated hero; now ninety-three Jacob wants to retrace his journey in memory and reality and return to the small French village that his unit liberated, and Trevor is going with him--but not everyone in the town want Jacob to come, and Trevor is going to learn an important lesson: real war is not a video...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
65 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
On a family hunting trip, twelve-year-old April misses her grandfather but hopes to bag the biggest turkey, using Grandjack's lucky box call.
258) A Game of Noctis
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the opulent, sinking city of Dantessa, the Great Game rules all. Pia Paro believes that so long as you follow the rules, you always have a chance at winning. But after her beloved gramps is sentenced to a life of servitude, Pia accepts a dangerous offer and joins a team of players seeking to win the most perilous game of all: Noctis.
The Seafoxes--Pia's new teammates--are unlike anyone she's ever met. There's brash, bold Carlo; macabre Serafina;...
259) Hey Grandude!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Grandude brightens a dreary weekend for his visiting grandchildren, Lucy, Tom, Em, and Bob, by using his magic compass and postcards to take them on adventures around the world.
260) Dumpy the dumptruck
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Charlie and his grandfather fix up a rusty old dump truck, they use Dumpy to help Trundle the tractor, Bee Bee the backhoe, and Stinky the garbage truck build a new barn.