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61) 1001 cranes
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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With her parents on the verge of separating, a devastated twelve-year-old Japanese American girl spends the summer in Los Angeles with her grandparents, where she folds paper cranes into wedding displays, becomes involved with a young skateboarder, and learns how complicated relationships can be.
62) Nora's ark
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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During the Vermont flood of 1927, a girl and her grandparents share their new hilltop house with neighbors and animals.
64) Wild life
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Eric's parents are deployed to Iraq, he goes to live with grandparents he hardly knows in small-town North Dakota, but his grandfather's hostility and the threat of losing the dog he has rescued are too much and Eric runs away.
66) Divali rose
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Ricki is looking forward to Divali, the Hindu "Festival of Lights." But when he breaks one of the special rosebuds that his grandfather planted, he must find courage to confess what he has done.
67) Icy watermelon
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
Español
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When three generations of a family gather to eat watermelon, the grandparents reminisce about how the sweet fruit brought them together.
73) I feel safe
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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A young girl is frightened by a thunderstorm, but her parents and grandparents help her to feel safe until the thunder passes--even after the lights go out.
74) The winter place
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Upon their father's death, Tess and her younger brother Axel leave New York for their grandparents' home in Finland, where they learn that a bear they both saw is the spirit of their mother, the strange man with her is the keeper of souls, and he wants Axel, already plagued with the disease that killed their mother, to replace him.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Cousins Lori and Lana, Lakota Indians who have a close but competitive relationship, learn about their heritage and culture throughout the year, and when a Laotian-Hmong girl comes to their school, they make friends with her and "adopt" her as one of their own.
Author
Series
Piper Reed volume 5
Language
English
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After bidding goodbye to her friends Michael and Nicole, who are moving away, Piper and her sisters spend winter break with their two sets of grandparents in Piney Woods, Louisiana, where Piper learns that the best adventures are the unexpected ones.
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