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A visit to Oma
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Marisabina Russo |
When a child visits her great-grandmother who speaks to her in an unfamiliar language, she makes up a story in her own head to fit her great-grandmother's gestures. |
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The legacy
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Katherine Webb |
After the death of their grandmother, Erica Calcott and her sister Beth return to Storton Manor in Wiltshire, England, where they, while sorting through her things, decide to discover what really hap… |
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Black, white, other
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Joan Steinau Lester |
Twenty miles from Oakland, California, where fires have led to racial tension, multi-racial fifteen-year-old Nina faces the bigotry of long-time friends, her parents' divorce, and her brother's misbe… |
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Zeke Meeks vs the no-fun fund-raiser
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D. L. Green |
Zeke's school is having a fund-raiser and the student who sell the most cake mix will get four tickets to Thrillsville Amusement Park, but Zeke is not having much luck until his great-grandmother giv… |
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Always the heart =
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Jim Sagel |
In a small New Mexico town, fourteen-year-old C.M. helps take care of her great-grandmother, who tells stories of her star-crossed life, making C.M. realize that she is not so different from those wh… |
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Moriah's Pond
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Ethel Footman Smothers |
While she and her older sisters are staying with their great-grandmother, ten-year-old Annie Rye learns about prejudice first hand when a local white girl causes Annie's sister to be unjustly punishe… |
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Ember Island
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Kimberley Freeman |
"Two women separated by a century discover long-buried secrets in an Australian manor house. In 1876, Tilly, a recently married young English woman, is reeling with shock and guilt after her tempestu… |
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What's heaven?
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Maria Shriver |
After her great-grandmother's death, a young girl learns about heaven by asking her mother all kinds of questions. |
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Jericho
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Janet Hickman |
An account of twelve-year-old Angela's visit to help take care of her great-grandmother alternates with the story of the old woman's life. |
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Goodbye America
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Rita Malie |
At the age of eighty-nine, Anna tells her story of her life to her two great-granddaughters during the family's Thanksgiving reunion. She details her personal history, including her departure from Oh… |
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Ópalo
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Alvarez, Blanca |
"Claudia no esperaba que la estancia con su abuela, una mujer china bastante enigmática, fuera a cambiar su vida. La anciana narra a Claudia, con trazos suaves, la dura existencia de su bisabuela Ópa… |
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Grandma Buffalo, May, and me
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Carol Curtis Stilz |
On her way to visit her grandmother in Montana, a young girl learns more about May, the great-grandmother whom she resembles, and meets a descendant of the buffalo May used to feed. |
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Carmina, come dance!
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Mary K. Whittington |
Carmina is afraid of her great-grandmother until the old lady plays the piano and Carmina discovers that the music makes a special bond between them. |
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The secret of the red shoes
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Joan Donaldson |
Great-grandma's secret makes for a wonderful surprise at the party celebrating her one hundredth birthday. |
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Kalpana's dream
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Judith Clarke |
While an English class of 7B students at Wentworth High in Australia struggle with a six-week essay assignment answering, "Who am I?," one child's great-grandmother arrives unexpectedly from India to… |
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An enemy at Green Knowe
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Lucy M. Boston |
The inhabitants of Green Knowe become involved with black magic when a modern-day witch attempts to find books of witchcraft supposedly hidden in the old house by a mad seventeenth-century alchemist. |
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The dream keeper
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Margery Evernden |
Her parents' impending separation leads a gifted thirteen-year-old musician to discover the story of her greatgrandmother's immigration to America from a Jewish shtetl in Poland. |
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Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs
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Tomie dePaola |
An autobiographical picture book that gently introduces young readers to the concept of grief.
Tommy, a young child who regularly visits his grandmother and great-grandmother one day finds that h… |
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Rosemary in Paris
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Barbara Robertson |
Rosemary Rita's magical hourglass takes her to the Paris Exposition of 1889, where she meets her great-great-grandmother Gracie, also aged ten, and together with a friend they set out to catch the bo… |
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The web
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Nette Hilton |
Jenny enjoys spending time with her great-grandmother and this time she helps her smile again with help from a seven-legged spider. |
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