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5) Heidi
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Heidi, an orphan, builds a strong bond with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps, she is sent into town to attend school and be a friend to a wealthy man's daughter, who is restricted to a wheelchair, but Heidi's health begins to fail as her desire to return to her home in the mountains increases.
7) Sun & Spoon
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
After the death of his grandmother, ten-year-old Spoon tries to find the perfect artifact to preserve his memories of her.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When the grandfather he never knew is released from prison suffering from dementia, eleven-year-old Nicholas, a mathematical and musical genius, tries to save the family's home by helping search for heirlooms Grandpa claims to have buried.
10) The outside dog
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Marisol, who lives in Puerto Rico, wants a dog very much but her grandfather will not let her have one, until a skinny mutt wins him over.
Author
Series
The fourteenth goldfish volume 1
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.
12) Life expectancy
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Before he died, Josef Tock spoke an unusual and frightening prophecy that his grandson Jimmy, who was born the same night, would have to endure five dark days in his life beginning in his twentieth year and ending in his thirtieth.
13) Hour of the bees
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"While her friends are spending their summers having pool parties and sleepovers, twelve-year-old Carolina Carol is spending hers in the middle of the New Mexico desert, helping her parents move the grandfather she's never met into a home for people with dementia. At first, Carol avoids prickly Grandpa Serge. But as the summer wears on and the heat bears down, Carol finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by the crazy stories he tells her about a healing...
Author
Series
Hank Zipzer volume 9
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
With the help of his grandfather, underachieving fifth-grader Hank Zipzer finally discovers that he is good at ping-pong, but he is afraid to tell his classmates for fear of being ridiculed.
19) Soccer shake-up
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Worried sick about his baby brother's operation, twelve-year-old Dominic does not really feel much like playing soccer, so he just messes around on the field during practice--but when his grandfather teaches him some moves he starts to take an interest, and sets out to win the trust of his coach and teammates.
20) Ocean meets sky
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A little boy builds a ship to honor his late grandfather and sets sail for the magical place where ocean meets sky from his grandfather's stories"--
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