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81) In her shoes
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Language
English
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Meet Rose Feller. She's thirty years old and a high-powered attorney with a secret passion for romance novels. She dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her eyes, and tell her that she's beautiful. She also dreams of getting her fantastically screwed-up little sister to get her life together. Meet Rose's sister, Maggie. Twenty-eight years old, drop-dead gorgeous and only occasionally employed. Although her dreams of big-screen...
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Series
South Carolina sunsets volume 4
Language
English
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Description
There's always something happening on Seagrove Island! Dixie has a boyfriend, and she's hiding him from everybody. William gets a job offer and has a big decision to make. Dawson has a huge announcement. Colleen gets the shock of her life. Julie adjusts to being a grandmother. Meg and Christian start building a life together. Someone unexpected comes to town and decides not to leave.
84) The exiles
Author
Series
Exiles (Hilary McKay) volume 1
Publisher
M.K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The four Conroy sisters spend a wild summer at the seaside with Big Grandma, who tries to break them of their reading habit by substituting fresh air and hard work for books and gets unexpected results.
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Language
English
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Suddenly sent from their home in Brooklyn to Bird Hill in Barbados after their mother can no longer care for them, sisters Phaedra and Dionne spend the summer of 1989 living with their grandmother Hyacinth, a midwife and practitioner of the local spiritual practice of obeah.
86) Naptime, laptime
Author
Publisher
Cartwheel Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
In rhyming verse, a little girl describes places where animals like to sleep, from seals snoozing on ice to spiders in the kitchen clock, as well as her favorite place, on grandma's lap.
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Series
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English
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After Julia DeSmit's boyfriend, Parker, left her in a college parking lot six years ago, she made a new life with her son, younger brother, grandmother, and new boyfriend. She works hard at a grocery store to bring in a meager income and takes classes toward her associate's degree. Overall, Julia is happy. But when she receives an email from Parker, her son's father, wanting to know if he has a child, her world is turned upside down.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
In 1942, fourteen-year-old Jill goes to stay with her grandmother on the coast of Maine, where she is introduced to the often gossipy nature of small-town life, and discovers that the war is closer than she thought.
89) Abuela
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
While riding on a bus with her grandmother, a little girl imagines that they are carried up into the sky and fly over the sights of New York City.
91) First rain
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When Abby moves with her family to Israel, where it does not rain all summer, she misses her grandmother and remembers the fun they used to have splashing in puddles together.
93) The raft
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Reluctuant Nicky spends a wonderful summer with Grandma who introduces him to the joy of rafting down the river near her home and watching the animals along the banks.
94) Granny's dragon
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A grandmother tells her grandchild that an invisible dragon will provide protection from the monsters that she fears at night.
96) Mixed bags
Author
Series
Carter House girls volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
DJ's grandmother is a former fashion model who has restored an old mansion and turned it into a boarding house for rich teenaged girls who are interested in fashion, presenting DJ with a conflict between retaining her tomboy identity or changing her style, as she decides whether or not to try to fit in.
Author
Series
Green Knowe chronicles volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
A strange friendship develops between a young Chinese refugee who is spending the summer at Green Knowe and a gorilla who has escaped from the London Zoo.
100) Mailing May
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1914, because her family cannot afford a train ticket to her grandmother's town, May gets mailed and rides the mail car on the train to see her grandmother.
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