grandparents

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grandparents

My car trip

2005
A boy enjoys his car trip to the country to visit his grandparents, and includes special pages designed for parents and children to take turns reading.

The true gift

a Christmas story
2009
While spending Christmas at their grandparents' farm, Lily becomes convinced that her younger brother Liam is right about White Cow being lonely and helps him seek a companion for the cow, leaving little time for Christmas preparations or reading.

One dark night

2001
A young boy and his grandparents help a mother and her kittens find safety during a summer thunderstorm.

Taking wing

2005
Thirteen-year-old Gus, sent to live with his grandparents in Vermont while his mother recovers from tuberculosis and his father serves in the Army Air Corps during World War II, learns lessons about life, responsibility, and friendship while hatching and raising a brood of orphaned ducks, and getting to know and understand his neighbor Louise Lavictoire.

Nora's ark

2005
During the Vermont flood of 1927, a girl and her grandparents share their new hilltop house with neighbors and animals.

Zero grandparents

2005
Calliope does not have a grandmother or grandfather to bring to school on Grandparent's Day, but she finds a special way to participate anyway.

Icy watermelon

2001
When three generations of a family gather to eat watermelon, the grandparents reminisce about how the sweet fruit brought them together.

Up, up, up!

it's apple-picking time
2003
Myles and his family go to his grandparents' apple ranch, where they have a wonderful time picking and selling apples together.

Meow means mischief

2003
A stray kitten turns out to be the perfect way to help Rana make friends in her new school and to feel more comfortable with her grandparents, who are visiting from India while her parents are away.

Small

2001
On his first overnight visit to his grandmother's house, Tom remembers to pack everything except his favorite toy, a mouse named Small.

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