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Language
English
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When Angel's self-absorbed mother leaves her and her younger brother with their poor great-grandmother, the eleven-year-old girl worries not only about her mother and brother, her imprisoned father, the frail old woman, but also about a mysterious man who begins sharing with her the wonder of the stars.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
When a child visits her great-grandmother who speaks to her in an unfamiliar language, she makes up a story in her own head to fit her great-grandmother's gestures.
3) Nana's gift
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nana's Gift (1996) : The gift had its own story because of the one who had given it to her and because of how long he had scrimped and saved to make it hers. And then, years later, it had become a family treasure, a legacy. Now a beloved great-granddaughter is facing the best and worst life could send her way. Maybe the gift will help her with her special need.
The red geranium (1995) : A very different gift but no less valued from a little boy to...
Author
Publisher
Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
[29] pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
On her way to visit her grandmother in Montana, a young girl learns more about May, the great-grandmother whom she resembles, and meets a descendant of the buffalo May used to feed.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
If you ask Delphinia Baker, she'd tell you she has all the family she needs. Sure, her mom passed away when she was young, her dad is often away on deployment, but even though Del has never had anyone she can call her people, she has always had her grandmother-and that's enough. Besides, having no roots just makes it that much easier when you have to move again. All of that changes, though, when Gramma falls ill and Del is sent to stay with her great-grandmother....
Author
Publisher
BridgeWater Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Christine spends Christmas Eve helping her great-grandmother decorate her tree and sharing the story of a very special ornament that came from Rumania many years before.
12) It creeps!
Author
Series
Ghost Detectors volume 1
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
79 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Malcolm and his best friend Dandy, armed with a ghost detector ordered from Beyond Belief magazine, make a late-night trip to a haunted house, despite the warnings of Malcolm's great-grandmother.
Author
Series
Ghost Detectors volume 2
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
79 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
While his great-grandmother seeks her deceased husband, ten-year-old Malcolm and his best friend Dandy have no trouble finding a ghost on which to test Malcolm's latest gadget--a ghost zapper.
14) My name is Aviva
Author
Publisher
Kar-Ben Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Aviva is not happy with her unusual name until she hears wonderful things about her great-grandmother, after whom she was named.
15) Bisa's Carnaval
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
In the city of Olinda, Brazil, Clara is looking forward to the Carnaval street parade, with the colorful, fantastic costumes that her great-grandmother makes for the family--but her Bisa is too old to follow the parade, so Clara decides to bring the parade to her.
16) Rain Forest Rose
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
197, 11 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After spotting a beautiful elusive pink roan mustang in the forest, Darby overcomes her fears of the dark woods, visits her great-grandmother, and uncovers a secret tragedy that led to a terrible fight between her two best friends.
Author
Series
Green Knowe chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
183 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tolly comes to live with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century.
Author
Series
Green Knowe chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First Harcourt young Classics edition ; first Odyssey Classics edition.
Physical Desc
214 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A young boy listens to his great-grandmother's tales of Green Knowe as it used to be and, gradually, as past and present blend, he shares the strange adventures of the former inhabitants.
19) Fox song
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
After the death of her Indian great-grandmother, Jamie remembers the many special things the old woman shared with her about the natural world.
20) What's heaven?
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
After her great-grandmother's death, a young girl learns about heaven by asking her mother all kinds of questions.
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