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342) Walk Two Moons
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
"After her mother leaves home suddenly, as thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left."
343) Curveball
Author
Series
The contract (Derek Jeter) volume 5
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
While spending the summer with his extended family in New Jersey, Derek finds a team he can play baseball with and earns money to take his best friend to a Yankees game.
344) Snow
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Now grown, a rabbit reminisces about the magic and warmth of the times when he, his brother, and his mother frolicked in the first snowfall of the year.
346) Icy sparks
Author
Pub. Date
c2001, 2007
Description
The sad, funny, transcendent story of a young girl growing up in Appalachia with Tourette's syndrome.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Whether you're settling in for a heaping plate of banana pudding or arepas and tostones, a good meal can always bring families together. Once a year, on a Friday night, My family leaves the city And drives hours and hours . . . First my family drives through the mountains to stop at Mamaw and Papaw's house in rural West Virginia. We share blueberry jam and toast for breakfast the next morning, then munch cookies and cut bananas to make banana pudding...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021].
Description
Stump always has a fantastic time with his grandparents, filled with flowers, puzzles, crosswords, and endless love. But one day, Stump's grandfather starts to lose his memory--and his words, which literally fall from him. Stump tries his best to keep the lost words safe, collecting them in a special box. But Grandpa seems to forget more and more everyday, and the situation comes to a head one snowy night when Stump wakes up to find Grandpa missing....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Rebecca is a vivacious 6½ year-old girl whose best friend happens to be a germ named Ernest. Hes not only Rebeccas best friend - hes also her partner in mischief, adventure companion, and confidant. In this third volume of the award-winning series, Rebecca and her older sister Coralie are sent to spend the summer in the countryside with their grandparents, away from their mother and father, without Ernest. Lost and scared without her friend, Rebecca...
350) The best Christmas
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Share in the festive mood with this delightful story about spending time together. From making Christmas cards and decorating the tree, to baking cookies and opening presents with the grandchildren."---Back cover.
351) Family Thanksgiving
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Share in the joy of Thanksgiving in this heart-warming story about the simple pleasures of sharing family time together."--Back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Jarrett lives with his grandparents--two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through with raising children until Jarrett came along. Jarrett goes through his childhood trying to make his non-normal life as normal as possible, finding a way to express himself through drawing even as so little is being said to him about what's going on. Only as a teenager can Jarrett begin to piece together the truth of his family,...
353) Ahiahia the orphan
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"After his parents are brutally murdered, Ahiahia is raised by his grandmother in a camp surrounded by enemies. His grandmother knows that eventually the camp will turn on Ahiahia, just as it did his parents, so she chants a protection chant over the clothing that she lovingly sews for him, over the amulet and necklace she gives him, even over the dog that is his companion. When he is attacked, Ahiahia must use his agility, hunting skills, and the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
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Description
"A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...