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When the Twin Towers fall on September 11, 2001, blocks from her school, twelve-year-old Molly, unable to reach her dads or Gran, must find her seven-year-old sister, Adi, and get her safely home. Includes author's note, glossary, and discussion questions.
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2020.
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Publisher Annotation: On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor at the nuclear power plant where their fathers work--Chernobyl--has exploded. Before they know it, the two girls, who've always been enemies, find themselves on a train bound for Leningrad to stay with Valentina's estranged grandmother, Rita Grigorievna. In their new lives in Leningrad, they begin to learn what it means...
6) Seeing Red
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Whatever after volume 12
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English
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Abby tries to use the magic mirror to get to her friend's house, but she ends up with her brother in the tale of Little Red Riding Hood; where, having accidently knocked out the Huntsman, they set out to save Red (named Lali) and her rather unpleasant grandmother themselves--but end up having to save the wolf (who actually seems a lot nicer then Lali's grandmother), and discovering a surprising secret about their own Nana.
13) My paati's saris
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Kokila
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A Tamil boy explores his love for his grandmother and her colorful sari collection in this tale of expressing your true self"--
14) Dearest one
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English
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Inspirational words of wisdom passed down from older generations to the young. Imagine the words your grandmother might say if she wrote you a letter. Perhaps she would encourage you to embrace the rain, or shine your light for all to see. Perhaps she would remind you to take up space and choose your path, knowing that whichever path you take will be the right one because it's yours. Perhaps she would tell you you are loved. Perhaps she would start...
16) My Baba's garden
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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A story about the special relationship between a child and his grandmother and the time they spend looking for worms for the garden.
17) Cake day
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Star Bright Books
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2016.
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English
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A child helps Grandma to mix, bake, and decorate a very special cake.
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Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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Many grandmas are dreamers, write poems, even wear green feathered hats… but few dare to participate in poetry contests and plant a love of literature in their grandchildren, and consequently fulfill themselves through them, helping them grow and weaving a strand of continuity through both their lives by way of writing. Petunia is Vicente’s grandmother, and she is not actually that crazy; on the contrary, her eccentricities are explained by her...
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Editorial Destellos
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Español
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In Nena, y Roberta ¿dónde está? a girl and her grandmother travel through fantastical worlds in search of the grandmother's memory, which has run away. This story provides another possible perspective and invites to reader to converse in a playful manner about a disease that affects countless lives.
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