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Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Language
English
Description
In this heartwarming story of love, family and baked goods, bakery owner Hope McKenna-Smith, the divorced mother of a surly preteen girl, is summoned by her aging grandmother who, ready to reveal the secret she has kept for 70 years, sends her on a journey across the world that will forever change her life.
11) A week in winter
Author
Language
English
Description
When Maudie Todhunter, the elderly owner of a charming farmhouse in Cornwall, decides to sell the family homestead, a family drama unfolds, with old secrets bubbling to the surface.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Raised in seclusion by fundamentalist grandparents who claim she is an evil product of her mother's sinful mistake, teenager Elle Edwards finally learns the truth about her conception and struggles with profound feelings of insecurity while pursuing a relationship with a vacationing boy.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
337 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a far fetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st Amer. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[28] p.: col. ill.; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Old Bob gets a teddy bear for his birthday because he never had one as a child, but his grandaughter, thinking the bear deserves better than to be stuck between dusty books, wants to take him home.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Documenting his grandparents' experiences during the siege of Leningrad, a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military deserter and he tried to secure pardons by gathering hard-to-find ingredients for a powerful colonel's daughter's wedding cake.
17) The flamingo
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
141 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In a nearly wordless novel, a little girl, while on a beachy vacation with her Lao Lao, finds a beautiful flamingo feather in her grandmother's house that turns her visit into something wonderful and magical.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Finn tells his grandmother a fib, his lies continue to build up which makes Finn feel horrible until he builds up the courage to come clean.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A grandmother-granddaughter duo are eager to spend their summer together on peaceful Nantucket, but the season that unfolds brings about unforgettable surprises in New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer's magical, multigenerational novel. Eleanor Sunderland loves living on the Nantucket cliffside, in a charming home that has been in her family for decades. Now widowed, she looks forward to the arrival of her children and grandchildren for...