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1) Heidi
Author
Series
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
Author
Series
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
"The greatest writer of his time."-Edmund Wilson
"One of the great poets of the novel, a genius of his art"-Edgar Johnson
"His characters are marvelous, his insights wonderful…you don't expect reality but you get something bigger and better."-Ruth Rendell
The Old Curiosity Shop was initially published in a weekly serial, "Master Humphrey's Clock", between 1840 and 1841. Charles Dickens' story of the frail and innocent orphan had become such...
4) Quiet
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
While observing the busy world around them, two children and their grandfather take a moment to appreciate being quiet and still.
5) Heartbeat
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
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.
Everything in twelve-year-old Annie's life begins changing when her mother becomes pregnant. Her grandfather begins to falter, and her best friend becomes distant.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
Salon owner Crystal Malloy is initially furious with Tanner Richards for abetting her grandfather's rule breaking, but is drawn to him and his children, while her grandfather finds obstacles in his own path to love.
Author
Series
Bella Vista volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Natalie Harper feels she must sell the bookshop she's inherited to pay for her grandfather's care, but he refuses to acquiesce, and renovation of the store and its studio apartment push her life in a whole new direction. Besides, she loves the store and its books provide welcome solace for her overwhelming grief. After she moves into the small studio apartment above the shop, Natalie carries out her grandfather's request and hires contractor Peach...
8) Stone Fox
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters.
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 4
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After having saved the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back in Florida with his peculiar friends, where they set out on a journey across America to discover the truth about Jacob's grandfather"--
10) The runaways
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Grandpa's in the hospital and hating it. He swears at the nurses and makes trouble for everyone. Dad finds it too stressful to visit, but Gottfried Junior visits Grandpa as often as he's allowed, and when he's not allowed, he goes anyway. Grandpa thinks only of the place he was happiest—the island where he lived with Grandma before she died. He wants to go back one last time, but they won't let him out of the hospital. Gottfried Junior and...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Calvin Sidey is a cowboy of the old-school, no-guff sort--steely, hardened, with his own personal code. It's the 1960s, and he's living off the grid in a stifling trailer on the prairie when his adult son, Bill, seeks his help. A mostly absentee father, and a virtual no-show as a grandfather, Calvin nevertheless reluctantly agrees to stay with his grandchildren for a week. He decamps for his son's dark and musty basement, to the small town where...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mukesh lives a quiet life in the London Borough of Wembley after losing his beloved wife. He worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries. Aleisha is a bright teenager working at the local library for the summer. She discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird; it is a list of novels that she has never heard of, and she impulsively decides...
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's...
14) Circus Mirandus
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
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"--
16) Mañanaland
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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.
17) Ocean meets sky
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A little boy builds a ship to honor his late grandfather and sets sail for the magical place where ocean meets sky from his grandfather's stories"
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Jonathan Safran Foer's debut—"a funny, moving...deeply felt novel about the dangers of confronting the past and the redemption that comes with laughing at it, even when that seems all but impossible." (Time)
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man—also named Jonathan Safran Foer—sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis....
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man—also named Jonathan Safran Foer—sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis....
19) Grandad's camper
Author
Publisher
little bee books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
A child who enjoys Grandad's stories of his travels and adventures with Gramps persuades him to fix up their old camper and take another trip, in honor of Gramps.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio
Language
Español
Description
Las lentes fragmentadas es la cuarta y trepidante aventura de «Alcatraz contra los Bibliotecarios Malvados», la serie de aventuras fantásticas juvenil apta para todos los públicos más divertida y original.
¿Podrá Alcatraz salvar una ciudad sitiada?
Si la isla de Mokia cae, también podrían caer el resto de los Reinos Libres. Y entonces todo el mundo estaría bajo el dominio de los Bibliotecarios
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