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Language
English
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"It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two sons, their grandchildren, even their faithful old dog--is on the porch, listening contentedly as Abby tells the tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different too: Abby and Red are growing older, and decisions...
Author
Series
Prairie Legacy volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Her Character Has Been Shaped and Tempered by Both Adversity and Triumph... If Virginia could have chosen to accept or discard all the changes that came her way, she gladly would have let most of them pass right by herself and her family. She loved her life--living on the farm with her beloved Jonathan and their children, not far from her parents and her grandparents. But a change that is tearing at her heart is the gradual but steady physical decline...
4) Roads
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides a child's view of a car trip to visit grandparents
Author
Series
Darius the Great volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life
10) The Danger Box
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
In small-town Michigan, twelve-year-old Zoomy and his new friend Lorrol investigate the journal found inside a mysterious box and find family secrets and a more valuable treasure, while a dangerous stranger watches and waits
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Silas' Seven Grandparents is a fun and loving story about having multiple sets of grandparents and step grandparents. When Silas' parents go away on a business trip, all seven grandparents invite Silas to stay with them....How can he choose one without hurting the others' feelings?
14) North of nowhere
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rushing to the sleepy seaside village of Porthaven to help her grandmother when her granddad mysteriously vanishes, Mia discovers a diary on an empty fishing boat and begins exchanging notes with a local girl who makes excuses for not meeting Mia in person, adding to an already mystifying situation
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