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"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel comes a powerful novel about a woman running her family's luxury department store and the wealthy investor who threatens to take it over. Spencer Brooke always knew she was destined to be CEO of her grandfather's business-the most respected and luxurious department store in New York City. Brooke's has been at the center of every happy memory she has, but it hasn't been an easy journey. Seven...
102) Grandfather's dream
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
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English
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After the end of the war in Vietnam, a young boy's grandfather dreams of restoring the wetlands of the Mekong delta, hoping that the large cranes that once lived there will return.
103) The Tub grandfather
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
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When the Tub Child discovers his missing grandfather asleep under the radiator, the whole Tub family rallies to wake him up.
104) Song and dance man
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1988
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IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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1 v (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
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English
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In this affectionate story, three children follow their grandfather up to the attic, where he pulls out his old bowler hat, gold-tipped cane, and his tap shoes. Grandpa once danced on the vaudeville stage, and as he glides across the floor, the children can see what it was like to be a song and dance man. Gammell captures all the story's inherent joie de vivre with color pencil renderings that leap off the pages. Bespectacled, enthusiastic Grandpa...
106) The tickle stories
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
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English
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Grandpa's fanciful tall tales of ticklish worms, cows, and toes help three rambunctious children get ready for bed.
107) Tom
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
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Aside from having the same name, Tommy and his grandfather Tom share a sense of humor.
108) Bag of bones
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 32
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English
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A powerful tale of grief, love's enduring bonds, and secrets of the past from #1 New York Times bestselling author and master storyteller Stephen King.
Four years after the sudden death of his wife, bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls "Sara Laughs," Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved...
Four years after the sudden death of his wife, bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls "Sara Laughs," Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved...
110) White owl, barn owl
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
29 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
111) Grandpa's teeth
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
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English
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Soon after Grandpa's teeth disappear from a glass of water near his bed, Inspector Rate has the whole town under investigation.
112) Christmas tree farm
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Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A boy describes how he, his grandfather, and the rest of his family work on their tree farm throughout the year to prepare Christmas trees.
113) The butterfly house
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
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With the help of her grandfather, a little girl makes a house for a larva and watches it develop before setting it free, and every summer after that butterflies come to visit her.
114) The birdwatchers
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Intrigued by her granddad's stories of what happens when he goes birdwatching, Jess decides to accompany him one day.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Meet Otto and Cecil, two brothers growing up privileged in the Welsh countryside. They enjoy watching nature shows, playing with their pet pony, impersonating their grandfather--and killing the help. Murder is the family business, after all. ... However, it's not so easy to continue the family legacy with the constant stream of threats and distractions seemingly leaping from the hedgerow. First there is the matter of the veritable cavalcade of escaped...
116) Two at the zoo
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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A grandfather and grandchild go to the zoo, where they count animals from one to ten.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Young Detective Jeffrey Bones investigates the disappearance of the plastic dinosaur his grandfather just bought for him in a museum gift shop.
118) Life expectancy
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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A dying man's clairvoyant prophesies about his grandson, Jimmy Tock, reveal five terrifying and horrific events, occuring on five different days at different periods in his life, that will turn the young man's world upside down.
119) Jody's beans
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
29 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
From spring to fall with the help of her grandfather, Jody learns to plant, care for, harvest, prepare, and eat some runner beans.
120) Fishing Sunday
Author
Publisher
Tambourine Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young boy is embarrassed by his grandfather's old Japanese ways, but on one of their Fishing Sundays, he learns to see Grandfather in a new light.
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