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Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Grandma gives you a lemon tree, definitely don't make a face! Care for the tree, and you might be surprised at how new things, and new ideas, bloom. "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade." In this imaginative take on that popular saying, a child is surprised (and disappointed) to receive a lemon tree from Grandma for her birthday. After all, she DID ask for a new gadget! But when she follows the narrator's careful-and funny-instructions,...
6) Bob
Author
Language
English
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Description
Visiting her grandmother in Australia, Livy, ten, is reminded of the promise she made five years before to Bob, a strange, green creature who cannot recall who or what he is.
8) The witches
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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.
Author
Series
Junie B. Jones series volume 10
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Lucille invites Junie B. and her friend Grace to sleep over at her very rich nanna's house, where everything is beautiful, expensive, and breakable.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club (Graphic novels) volume 4
Language
English
Description
Claudia's participation in the Baby-sitters Club is curtailed when Grandmother Mimi suffers a stroke and Claudia finds herself "Mimi-sitting" and fighting more frequently with her sister.
13) I want a pony
Author
Series
Pony pals volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Hoping to become friends with pony riders Pam and Anna, Lulu dreams of owning a pony while staying with her grandmother during her father's absence, and when she finds an injured pony, Lulu tries to save the beautiful animal.
15) Grandma's shoes
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
A young girl copes with her grandmother's death with the help of the old woman's shoes and some special memories.
19) Oma and Bobo
Author
Publisher
Bradbury Press
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
Bobo the dog learns to sit, stay, and fetch with the help of Grandmother Oma.
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