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At the center of Martin Chuzzlewit is Martin himself, very old, very rich, very much on his guard. What he suspects (with good reason) is that every one of his close and distant relations, now converging in droves on the country inn where they believe he is dying, will stop at nothing to become the inheritor of his great fortune. Having unjustly disinherited his grandson, young Martin, the old fellow now trusts no one but Mary Graham, the pretty girl...
3) Life l1k3
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Publisher Annotation: On an island junkyard beneath a sky that glows with radiation, a deadly secret lies buried in the scrap. Seventeen-year-old Eve isn't looking for trouble--she's too busy looking over her shoulder. The robot gladiator she spent months building has been reduced to a smoking wreck, she's on the local gangster's wanted list, and the only thing keeping her grandpa alive is the money she just lost to the bookies. Worst of all, she's...
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When Mellie Turpin's grandfather dies and leaves her family his run-down inn and bar, she learns that for generations her family members have been fairy guardians, and now that the fairies want an important ring returned, the Turpins become involved in aseries of magical adventures as they try to locate the missing ring.
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Wordsong, an imprint of Highlights
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[2016]
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English
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Keet knows the only good thing about moving away from her Alabama home is that she?ll live near her beloved grandfather. When Keet starts school, it?s even worse than she expected, as the kids tease her about her southern accent. Now Keet, who can "talk the whiskers off a catfish," doesn?t want to open her mouth. Slowly, though, while fishing with her grandfather, she learns the art of listening. Gradually, she makes her first new friend. But just...
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Publisher Annotation: Arthur Louis Pullman the Third is on the verge of a breakdown. He?s been stripped of his college scholarship, is losing his grip on reality, and has been sent away to live with his aunt and uncle. It?s there that Arthur discovers a journal written by his grandfather, the first Arthur Louis Pullman, an iconic Salinger-esque author who went missing the last week of his life and died hundreds of miles away from their family home....
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Perfect for fans of Kelly Yang and Rebecca Stead, this touching middle grade novel maps one girl's quest to remember her grandfather through his scavenger hunts; reconnect with her family; and fight for her community in her rapidly changing hometown. Thanks to her Ye-Ye's epic scavenger hunts, thirteen-year-old Ruby Chu knows San Francisco like the back of her hand. But after his death, she feels lost, and it seems like everyone-from her best friends...
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Arthur Bash is the school thug-for-hire (paid in candy bars), mostly because he just looks the part, so when orphan Darius Drake offers him three candy bars to accompany him to the run-down Stompanado Housing Complex, and just look menacing, he agrees--and soon finds himself deep in a mystery involving Darius' estranged grandfather, the lost Dunbar Diamonds, and the villainous Jasper Jones.
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Another one for the keeper shelf! Enjoy again this classic romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.
Janine Hartman loved her grandfather dearly-but she balked at his plan to choose her a husband. Zach Thomas, the intended groom, didn't like it any better.
Zach had recently merged his business with the Hartman family firm, and that was the only Hartman-Thomas merger he wanted. But Grandfather had other ideas, ideas belonging...
14) Texas grit
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The adventures of Wilder Good volume 2
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Paul Dry Books
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Twelve-year-old Wilder Good spends a week in West Texas at his grandfather's ranch, working cattle on horseback and exploring the rough ranch country.
17) Home sweet motel
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Welcome to Wonderland volume 1
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[2016]
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"P.T. and his friend Gloria must solve a mystery at the world's wackiest motel: The Wonderland"--
18) If you find this
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Little, Brown and Company
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2015.
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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.
19) The witnesses
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"Young lawyer Parker House is on the rise--until his grandfather's mysterious past puts both of their lives in danger. The fresh-faced North Carolina attorney shares his German grandfather's ability to see future events in his mind's eye--a gift that has haunted 82-year-old Frank House, who is trying to erase a murderous wartime past"--From the publisher's web site.
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