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1) Yucky worms
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Series
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Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
While helping Grandma in the garden, a child learns about the important role of the earthworm in helping plants grow.
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Series
Lemonade war series volume 3
Language
English
Description
Siblings Evan and Jessie must solve the mystery of a missing cherished family treasure while coming to terms with their beloved grandmother's unsettling behavior.
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Series
Sisters Grimm volume 4
Language
English
Description
When the fairy-tale detectives rush to New York City hoping to find an Everafter who can cure Puck, they trigger a chain of events that includes a murder mystery, and learn many new things about their mother who, along with their father, is still in an enchanted sleep.
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Series
Sisters Grimm volume 1
Language
English
Description
Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead.
9) Tortilla sun
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English
Description
While spending a summer in New Mexico with her grandmother, twelve-year-old Izzy makes new friends, learns to cook, and for the first time hears stories about her father, who died before she was born.
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Fly Guy volume 4
Language
English
Description
After accidentally swallowing her grandson's pet fly, Grandma tries to retrieve it by consuming progressively larger animals.
11) The witches
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English
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A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.
12) Those shoes
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English
Description
Jeremy, who longs to have the black high tops that everyone at school seems to have but his grandmother cannot afford, is excited when he sees them for sale in a thrift shop and decides to buy them even though they are the wrong size.
16) Listen, Slowly
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English
Description
Assisting her grandmother's investigation of her grandfather's fate during the Vietnam War, Mai struggles to adapt to an unfamiliar culture while redefining her sense of family.
A California girl born and raised, Mai can't wait to spend her vacation at the beach. Instead, she has to travel to Vietnam with her grandmother, who is going back to find out what really happened to her husband during the Vietnam War. Mai's parents think this trip will be...
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Series
Starry River of the Sky volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Pinmei's grandmother always has the most exciting tales. But the peace is shattered one night when the emperor's soldiers kidnap the old storyteller, leaving Pinmei devastated. Now Pinmei must embark on a journey to rescue her grandmother with her friend Yishan, who seems to have hidden secrets of his own. Together, the two face obstacles found only in legends.
18) Dearest One
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English
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The words of wisdom a grandmother might pass on to a growing child if she wrote her advice in the form of a letter.
19) Karma bites
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English
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Using the power of a magic recipe box belonging to her hippie grandmother straightens out some of the problems in twelve-year-old Franny Flanders' life, but she learns that when you tamper with karma, it can strike back in unexpected ways.
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English
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When Grandma says she's seen a tiger in the garden, Nora doesn't believe her. She's too old to play Grandma's silly games! Everyone knows that tigers live in jungles, not gardens. So, even when Nora sees butterflies with wings as big as her arm, and plants that try and eat her toy giraffe, and a polar bear that likes fishing, she knows there's absolutely, definitely no way there could be a tiger in the garden. Could there?