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81) Stand by me
Author
Series
Family Is forever volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kym Knicely has been a caregiver, but now she is focused on her career and earning her doctorate in education. When she meets Charles "Chaz" Banks and his four-year-old granddaughter, Chauncy, who is autistic, Kym is attracted to the older man. Chaz is ready to take a second chance on love, but is needed in his granddaughter's life. When your faith is strong, love will find a way. -- adapted from back cover
82) It's too soon!
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Anna thinks it is too early to go to bed, but her grandfather leads her one step at a time.
83) Grandpa grumps
Author
Publisher
Little Bee
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When Daisy's grandfather, or Yeh-Yeh, visits from China, she does everything she can think of to make him smile and finally finds a way. Includes glossary of Chinese words and recipe for fried rice.
84) Heidi
Author
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. Includes illustrated notes throughout the text explaining the historical backround of the story.
85) Lili backstage
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
As she looks for her grandfather backstage, Lili sees some of the different people involved in putting on a ballet performance.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1992.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
One stormy night, Jack experiences an exciting adventure on the sea with his grandfather, but later wonders if it was only a dream.
91) The wind garden
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
First U. S. edition.
Physical Desc
22 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
On his rooftop, Ellie's grandfather needs a special kind of garden that the wind won't destroy.
92) The return
Author
Language
English
Description
"Trevor Benson never intended to move back to New Bern, North Carolina. But when a mortar blast outside the hospital where he worked as an orthopedic surgeon sent him home from Afghanistan with devastating injuries, the dilapidated cabin he'd inherited from his grandfather seemed as good a place to regroup as any. Tending to his grandfather's beloved bee hives while preparing for a second stint in medical school, Trevor isn't prepared to fall in love...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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...
95) TV Rex
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Missing his grandfather, Rex watches too much television and soon finds himself in a fantastical adventure where he stars in all his favorite shows.
96) Devil's day
Author
Language
English
Description
"'In the wink of an eye, as quick as a flea, / The Devil he jumped from me to thee. / And only when the Devil had gone, / Did I know that he and I'd been one' . . . Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the farm where he grew up, to help gather the sheep down from the moors for the winter. Very little changes in the Endlands, but this year, his grandfather -- the Gaffer -- has died, and John's new wife, Katherine, is accompanying him for the first...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores some of the many and varied ways a grandfather can express his love, even without saying the words, such as by sharing his coin collection, holding hands when crossing the street, and attending tea parties.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Formats
Description
While spending time with her Babajoon and Mamanjoon, Miriam begins to notice details about her Babajoon that make her think he could be a pirate, which leads him to share memories with her about his childhood in Iran.
100) Wild spaces
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An eleven-year-old boy lives an idyllic childhood exploring the remote coastal plains and wetlands of South Carolina alongside his parents and his dog Teach. But when the boy's eerie and estranged grandfather shows up one day with no warning, cracks begin to form as hidden secrets resurface that his parents refuse to explain. The longer his grandfather outstays his welcome and the greater the tension between the adults grows, the more the boy feels...
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