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1) Fablehaven
Author
Series
Fablehaven volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Kendra and Seth go to stay at their grandparents' estate, they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and that a battle between good and evil is looming.
Author
Series
Fablehaven volume 5
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
In an effort to stop the Sphinx from opening the demon prison Zzyxx, Kendra, Seth, and the Knights of the Dawn race to find the exotic artifacts and keep them out of the Sphinx's control.
Author
Series
Fablehaven volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At the end of the school year, Kendra and her brother Seth find themselves racing back to Fablehaven, a refuge for mythical and magical creatures. Grandpa Sorenson invites three specialists -- a potion master, a collector of magical relics, and a trapper of mystical creatures -- to help protect the property from the Society of the Evening Star, an ancient organization determined to steal a hidden artifact of great power. Time is running out. If the...
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 20
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Jodie is staying with her grandparents on their farm and sees the scarecrows "come alive!"
10) Walk two moons
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emma London never thought she had anything in common with her grandmother Genevieve London. The regal old woman came from wealthy and bluest-blood New England stock, but that didn't protect her from life's cruelest blows: the disappearance of Genevieve's young son, followed by the premature death of her husband. But Genevieve rose from those ashes of grief and built a fashion empire that was respected the world over, even when it meant neglecting...
Author
Series
Prayer jars volume 2
Language
English
Description
Sara Murray had never met her mother's parents and was surprised to learn after her death that they were Amish living in Pennsylvania. When she is finally able to make the trip to meet them, she is shocked to learn someone else has been living with them and pretending to be Sara. Sara can't understand how quickly her grandparents are willing to forgive the imposter. Secrets and deceit seem to follow Sara, and she is so tired of it. Though soon she...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a new book featuring everyone's favorite family--the Baxters. Decades ago, John and Elizabeth Baxter lived a love story that is still playing out in the lives of their adult children and grandchildren. But few of them know the exact details of that story or the heartbreak that brought the two together. Now in high school, Ashley Baxter Blake's oldest son, Cole, must write a family history...
15) Journey
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Left by their mother with their grandparents, two children feel as if their past has been erased until Grandfather finds a way to restore it to them.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling author Lauraine Snelling shares a heartfelt story of a couple who put their plans for a peaceful retirement on hold to assume guardianship of their young grandchildren. Mona and Ken Sorenson are approaching the best years of their lives. Mona's greatest concern is that Ken will learn of the surprise party she's planning for his retirement from his job as Dean of Students at Stone University. They've already been making plans to travel,...
17) Big Mama
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Winner of an Academy Award in the Documentary Short category, Big Mama depicts a devoted grandmother's struggle to raise her orphaned grandson under the watchful eye of a complex and difficult social welfare system. Big Mama follows 18 months in the lives of Viola Dees, an African American grandmother, and Walter, her grandson, as she tries to raise him alone in South Central Los Angeles. Dees has taken care of Walter since the age of four, when his...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two...
20) Ark in the park
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When her parents take her to visit a very special pet store in the park across from her apartment, both Sophie and Mr. and Mrs. Noah, the pet store owners, have their secret wishes fulfilled.
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