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21) Once a spy
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Discovering that his apartment has been blown up by would-be killers, gambler Charlie Clark figures out that his Alzheimer's patient father was once a spy for the CIA and was part of an operation that sold faulty nuclear technology to terrorists.
22) Siempre Alice
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
1a edición.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
Alice Howland está orgullosa de la vida que tanto esfuerzo le ha costado construir. A los cincuenta, es profesora de psicología cognitiva en Harvard y una experta lingüista de fama mundial, con un marido exitoso y tres hijos adultos. Cuando empieza a sentirse desorientada y olvidadiza, un trágico diagnóstico cambia su vida, al tiempo que la relación con su familia y con el mundo, para siempre.
Fifty-year-old Alice Howland, a Harvard professor...
23) Don't forget me
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Forced to leave her mother, who has early-onset Alzheimer's, in a nursing home in England and move to Australia to live with the father she has never met, seventeen-year-old Hazel Clarke struggles to build a new life for herself until she is befriended by Red and his quiet, grieving twin brother Luca, who help her learn to love her new home and realize the importance of honesty and family.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
168 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the first day of seventh grade when Kat "borrows" a bicycle to go see her dog who was hit the day before by a woman with Alzheimer's disease, she learns about the serious consequences of impetuous actions and manages to make some new friends in the process.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Francie's Great-Granny Annabel dies of Alzheimer's disease, Francie finds a way to help people remember the real person rather than the shell she had become as the disease ran its course.
27) Switch
Author
Series
Savvy (Ingrid Law) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gypsy Beaumont's magical savvy switches to its opposite when she learns that her mean and decidedly non-magical grandma has Alzheimer's and is going to move in with her family"-- Provided by publisher.
28) My singing Nana
Author
Publisher
Magination Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
550L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Billy's beloved Nana's memory is failing but they are "always amigos," so when disaster strikes the day of the family's big summer show, Billy finds a way he and Nana can save the day.
Author
Series
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1. ed. para EEUU y Canadá.
Physical Desc
35 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Roberto's grandfather has Alzheimer's Disease. At first Roberto and his sister are preoccupied with the changes. But after talking with their mother, they understand that they should accept their grandfather as he now is. All come together to help their grandfather and to have the family continue enjoying life.
El abuelito no se ve enfermo, pero una enfermera viene a su casa para cuidarlo. ¿Qué está pasando? El abuelito tiene la enfermedad...
30) El profesor
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
1a edición.
Physical Desc
606 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
353, 4 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In this heartwarming story of love, family and baked goods, bakery owner Hope McKenna-Smith, the divorced mother of a surly preteen girl, is summoned by her aging grandmother who, ready to reveal the secret she has kept for 70 years, sends her on a journey across the world that will forever change her life.
32) Summer shift
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Touchstone trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
315, [12] p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forty-four-year-old Cape Cod clam bar owner Mary Hopkins struggles to find the peace, love, and human connection that have eluded her for decades as she copes with her beloved great-aunt's descent into Alzheimer's disease, the tragic accident of a young waitress, and her rekindled romance with Dan, a lost love.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
465 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After losing his college scholarship, Arthur discovers a journal written by his deceased grandfather and decides to follow the train route to the destination mentioned in the last sentence of the journal.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
279 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hendrix and Corrina bust Hendrix's grandfather out of assisted living, and leave LA for New York in pursuit of freedom, truth, and love"--
35) Forget me not
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Young Julia comes to terms with the changes in her beloved grandmother, whose Alzheimer's Disease makes it hard for her to remember people and things.
38) The memory wall
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Losing himself in the fantasy world of his favorite video-game character in order to manage the stress of his mother's illness, which he is certain has been misdiagnosed, 12-year-old Nick finds himself fighting alongside another player who eerily reminds him of someone he knows in real life.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 338 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Anna Forster, in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease at only thirty-eight years old, knows that her family is doing what they believe to be best when they take her to Rosalind House, an assisted living facility. She also knows there's just one another resident her age, Luke. What she does not expect is the love that blossoms between her and Luke even as she resists her new life at Rosalind House. As her disease steals more and more of her memory,...
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