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2) Ferris
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.
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Charlie Collier snoop for hire volume 4
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Private detective, Charlie Collier, is back to his old tricks in his 4th adventure, "The Buried Treasure Caper." In this novel, the 12-year-old snoop for hire stumbles upon a rare coin with a mysterious past. Charlie, Henry, and Scarlett soon find themselves attempting to unravel a 50-year-old murder case that the local police were never able to solve. And like his other adventures, Charlie gets in way over his head and becomes the next victim of...
4) Like so
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Just as the sun loves the day and the moon loves the waves, a grandmother shows how her family's love is natural and connected to the world around them.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges, the death of her grandmother brings a young woman home, where she must face the past in order to become the heir of not just the family restaurant, but her own destiny. Violeta Sanoguera had always done what she was told. She left the man she loved in Colombia in pursuit of a better life for herself and because her mother and grandmother didn't approve...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"When her grandmother comes off the airplane in Houston from Pakistan, Mahnoor knows that having Dadi move in is going to disrupt everything about her life. She doesn't have time to be Dadi's unofficial babysitter: her journalism teacher has announced that their big assignment will be to film a documentary, which feels more like storytelling than what Maha would call 'journalism.' As Dadi starts to settle into life in Houston and Maha scrambles for...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"After moving to her estranged grandmother's house, fourteen-year-old Eva teams up with the gardener's great-grandson, Frankie, to uncover family secrets and they suspect that Eva's grandmother was once a queen in another world."--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"This moving tale introduces the youngest picture book audience to a girl who misses her grandmother-whom she calls Tata or Tatita, as is traditional in many Spanish-speaking cultures-and yearns to spend time with her. But Tatita is not here any more. The spare, striking illustrations make it ambiguous whether the girl misses her tata because she lives in a faraway place, is ill, or has passed on. Yet this gorgeous, deceptively simple book's ending...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Esther Larson has been cooking for funerals in the Northwoods of Wisconsin for seventy years. Known locally as the 'funeral ladies,' she and her cohort have worked hard to keep the mourners of Ellerie County fed-it is her firm belief that there is very little a warm casserole and a piece of cherry pie can't fix. But, after falling for an internet scam that puts her home at risk, the proud Larson family matriarch is the one in need of help these days....
15) Tricky chickies
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"There's a surprise at Grandma and Grandpa's farm--six lively chicks! When the chicks get loose, Little Critter comes up with a plan to get them back!"--
16) Orpheus girl
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old, mythology-obsessed Raya and her true love, Sarah, are sent from their conservative Texas town to a re-education camp, Raya assumes the role of Orpheus to save them.
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