grandparents

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The carnival

After a long, cold winter, the foxes and badgers decide to put on a carnival to chase away their grumpiness.

Halley

a novel
2014
Times are hard in Depression era Georgia mountain country. Even so, fourteen-year-old Halley Owenby, her younger brother, Robbie, and their parents, Jim and Kate manage to get by until Jim dies suddenly in an accident, and Kate decides she and her children have no choice but to move in with her parents.

A secret keeps

2012
Relates a child's trip from his urban home to his grandparents' farm, where a secret surprise awaits at the end of a long weekend.

Young Cam Jansen and the knock, knock mystery

2014
Eric's Grandma Minnie and Grandpa Max keep hearing someone knock at their door, night and day, but find no one there, so Cam tries to solve the mystery using her amazing memory.

Where did my grandparents come from?

2013
Introduces children to several immigrant grandparents and the countries they originally came from.

My grandparents

2011
Simple text and photographs describe the role of grandparents in a family and how grandchildren interact with them.

The granny game

1999
The Cul-de-sac Kids are taken care of by both of their grandmothers who have conflicting personalities.

Wild life

2013
When 12-year-old Eric's parents are deployed to Iraq, he goes to live with grandparents he hardly knows in small-town North Dakota, but his grandfather's hostility and the threat of losing the dog he has rescued are too much and Eric runs away.

My Yiddish vacation

2014
Ruth loves going on vacation with her brother, Sammy, to their grandparents home in Florida, and one of her favorite parts is practicing her Yiddish, a Jewish language full of fun words.

Ballpark

2014
A boy and his grandpa go to their first big league baseball game together, where they cheer on their team, keep an eye out for fly balls, eat some peanuts, and hopefully watch their team win the game.

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