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Grandfathers

  • The inheritance of loss
    Author:
    Desai, Kiran
    Summary:

    Himalayas, 1986. Retired judge Jemubhai Patel lives with his cook and sixteen-year-old granddaughter, Sai. An Indian-Nepalese insurgency makes Jemubhai confront his past and interrupts Sai's romance with her Nepali tutor. Meanwhile...
  • 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...
  • The big snapper
    Author:
    Holubitsky, Katherine
    Summary:

    Ten-year-old Eddie lives with his mom and grandparents in a small cabin on the Queen Charlotte Islands. A year earlier, Eddie's dad took the ferry to the mainland and never returned. Eddie loves going fishing with Granddad and listening...
  • The belief in angels : adapted for young adults
    Author:
    Yates, J. Dylan
    Summary:

    Jules Finn and Szaja Trautman know that sorrow can sink deeply—so deeply it can drown the soul. Growing up in her parents' crazy hippie household on a tiny island off the coast of Boston, Jules's imaginative sense of humor is the weapon...
  • Tea with grandpa
    Author:
    Saltzberg, Barney
    Summary:

    Spending time with Grandpa is always fun. Singling, laughing, eating, and playing. And when it's time to say goodbye, It won't be for long because He's never too far away to have tea. In this sweetly simple, rhyming picture book by...
  • Stolen Words
    Author:
    Florence, Melanie
    Summary:

    This picture book explores the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families. The story recognizes the pain of those whose culture and language were taken from them...
  • Spring forward
    Author:
    Anderson, Catherine
    Summary:

    The fourth heartwarming novel in the New York Times bestselling series about unlikely pairs learning to open themselves up to love in Mystic Creek, Oregon. Crystal Malloy owns the beauty salon in Mystic Creek, Oregon. It took years of...
  • Speed (7 prequels)
    Author:
    Staunton, Ted
    Summary:

    In this middle-grade novel, Spencer ends up in the middle of a War of 1812 reenactment.
  • Speed
    Author:
    Staunton, Ted
    Summary:

    How can you liven up a boring camping trip with your grandpa and your younger brother? Spencer has the answer: lose the new cell phone you weren't supposed to bring with you. Add a War of 1812 reenactment, a student film crew, an old...
  • Something from nothing : adapted from a Jewish folktale
    Author:
    Gilman, Phoebe
    Summary:

    In this retelling of a traditional Jewish folktale, Joseph's baby blanket is transformed into ever smaller items as he grows until there is nothing left--but then Joseph has an idea.
  • Sofia et le marchand ambulant
    Author:
    Canciani, Katia
    Summary:

    Pour avoir une chance que son voeu d’anniversaire se réalise, Sofia décide de rencontrer Tullio, le marchand ambulant, chaque semaine lors de son passage. Elle ne pourra rien lui acheter, mais qu’importe. Au fil du temps, Tullio lui...
  • Sleeper
    Author:
    Walters, Eric
    Summary:

    DJ jets across the Atlantic to England to follow a series of obscure clues and symbols he hopes will reveal the truth about his grandfather. In London, spies, guns, double agents, the Cambridge Five and a vintage E-Type Jag are a few of...
  • Ski, Blanche et avalanche
    Author:
    Bélanger, Pierre-Luc
    Summary:

    Un jeune homme, Cédric Poitras, accumule les mauvais coups depuis son entrée au secondaire : cours séchés, vols à l’étalage, alcool… rien ne semble l’arrêter. À bout de nerfs, ses parents l’expédient chez son grand-père paternel,...
  • Seven Prequels Bundle
    Author:
    Orca Book Publishers
    Summary:

    These middle-grade novels, prequels to Seven (the Series) and the Seven Sequels, introduce David McLean's seven grandsons and follow their initial adventures.
  • Seven bundle
    Author:
    Orca Book Publishers
    Summary:

    Seven novels of adventure in one ebook bundle. When David McLean, well-loved grandfather and avid adventurer, dies, he leaves behind an unusual will that outlines sevens tasks he has set for his seven grandsons. Eric Walters, John...
  • Satellite love : a novel
    Author:
    Ferguson, Genki
    Summary:

    Set in 1999 Japan, Satellite Love is a heartbreaking and beautifully unconventional debut novel about a girl, a boy, and a satellite--and a bittersweet meditation on loneliness, alienation, and what it means to be human. On the eve of...
  • Sam's ride
    Author:
    Citra, Becky, Meissner, Amy
    Summary:

    Sam, a seven-year-old boy, is devastated when his mother leaves him for two weeks on his grandfather's ranch. Grandpa has a lot of rules, and Sam isn't happy about having to stay with him. But Sam's time on the ranch isn't all bad. He...

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