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Grandfathers

  • Yellow dog : a coming-of-age novel
    Author:
    Körner, Miriam
    Summary:

    Jeremy lives in a small community where winters are long and stray dogs roam the streets. When peer pressure leads Jeremy into a bad prank, he is immediately struck with guilt - and that's when Jeremy's life changes forever. Trying to...
  • Weerdest Day Ever! (7 Prequels)
    Author:
    Scrimger, Richard
    Summary:

    In this middle-grade novel, Bunny ends up caught in a reenactment of the War of 1812 while searching for a stolen cell phone.
  • We dream medicine dreams
    Author:
    Boivin, Lisa
    Summary:

    From Dene artist and bioethicist Lisa Boivin comes this healing story of hope, dreams, and the special bond between grandfather and granddaughter. When a little girl dreams about a bear, her grandfather explains how we connect with the...
  • Waiting for the whales read-along
    Author:
    McFarlane, Sheryl
    Summary:

    Waiting for the Whales illuminates the unique friendship between grandparent and child and celebrates the restorative power of the natural world. An old man lives alone on a bluff overlooking the sea, tends his garden and waits. Only...
  • Variations on Herb
    Author:
    Lee, John B.
    Summary:

    Winner of the 1995 Milton Acorn Memorial People’s Poetry Prize

    Variations on Herb is the latest in a lengthening series of books that emanate from the south-western Ontario farm of John B. Lee's childhood. The focus of...
  • Une journée poney! / Pemkiskahk'ciw ahahsis! / A pony day
    Author:
    Lang, Paul, Opolahsomuwehs, de Varennes, Hélène
    Summary:

    Joséphine regarde son grand-père et se demande s'il est sérieux. Lui qui aime tant rire ! Un poney n'a ni volant pour le conduire ni fauteuil pour s'y asseoir... Comment pourra-t-elle rester assise sur un poney et le...
  • Tin soldier
    Author:
    Brouwer, Sigmund
    Summary:

    Jim Webb's pursuit of the truth about his grandfather's role in the Vietnam War puts him squarely in the sights of someone high up in the US military who wants certain events from that war left in the past. Webb goes on the run in the...
  • The Wolf's curse
    Author:
    Vitalis, Jessica
    Summary:

    Twelve-year-old Gauge's life has been cursed since the day he witnessed an invisible Great White Wolf steal his grandpapa's soul. When the superstitious residents of Bouge-by-the-Sea accuse the boy of crying wolf, he joins...
  • The wolf and me
    Author:
    Scrimger, Richard
    Summary:

    Bunny's been kidnapped and now he's locked in a cold basement room in his parka and skates. Where is he? And why do his kidnappers keep asking questions about his dead grandpa and some weird national anthem? Bunny may not always know...
  • The ultimate life
    Author:
    Stovall, Jim.
    Summary:

    A profound follow-up to the bestselling book and major motion picture, The Ultimate Gift. When Jason Stevens found out he had to jump through hoops to maybe get an unnamed inheritance from his billionaire grandfather, he was not amused...
  • The turtle of oman
    Author:
    Nye, Naomi Shihab
    Summary:

    Here are some things Aref loves about his home. Mish-Mish, his catThe dunes in the desertHis friends Diram and Sulima Fresh apricotsCrispy fish served in basketsHis grandfather, SidiHis excellent rock collectionThe turtles of OmanAref...
  • The return
    Author:
    Sparks, Nicholas
    Summary:

    Tending to his grandfather's beehives while gearing up for a second stint in medical school, Trevor isn't prepared to fall in love, and yet he senses a connection with deputy sheriff Natalie Masterson.
  • The mystery of Ireland's eye
    Author:
    Peacock, Shane
    Summary:

    Dylan is twelve years old and embarking on his first ocean kayaking trip with his parents. He has spent the last year convincing them that he is ready for the challenging-and very dangerous-adventure. In fact, he has been determined to...
  • The lost and found bookshop
    Author:
    Wiggs, Susan
    Summary:

    In the wake of a shocking tragedy, Natalie Harper inherits her mother’s charming but financially strapped bookshop in San Francisco. She also becomes caretaker for her ailing grandfather Andrew, her only living relative - not counting...
  • The last lobo
    Author:
    Smith, Roland
    Summary:

    When Jake, a teenager, takes his grandfather on a visit to their Hopi tribal homeland in Arizona, he finds himself fighting to save an endangered Mexican wolf.
  • The Land of Roar
    Author:
    McLachlan, Jenny
    Summary:

    When Arthur and Rose were little, they were heroes in the Land of Roar, an imaginary world that they found by climbing through the folding bed in their grandad's attic. Roar was filled with things they loved--dragons, mermaids,...
  • The hero's walk: a novel
    Author:
    Badami, Anita Rau
    Summary:

    Sripathi Rao, the protagonist of Anita Rau Badami's second novel, is an ordinary, middle-aged man whose career and family have failed to meet his expectations. But when his daughter and her husband are suddenly killed in a car crash,...
  • The falcon always wings twice : Meg Langslow mystery series, book 27
    Author:
    Andrews, Donna
    Summary:

    A new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Terns of Endearment. When Meg's grandmother Cordelia hosts a Renaissance Faire at her craft center, the whole family is put to...
  • The emerald curse
    Author:
    Rose, Simon
    Summary:

    Charles Kelly was the world's greatest comic book artist until he disappeared without a trace. Two years later, his grandson Sam discovers a mysterious pen in Kelly's attic studio. Sam is soon propelled into a deadly dimension, where...
  • The dread crew : pirates of the backwoods
    Author:
    Inglis, Kate
    Summary:

    Contains things disgusting, rude, repulsive and crush-like in nature. It also includes the most gigantic party ever seen, a rampaging woodship, random explosions, a prison, an escape, inventions, blackberry sploosh and many, many...

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