grandparents

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Grandmother told me

1972
A little boy's grandmother points out all sorts of things that he just misses seeing.

Sophie

1997
As Sophie grows bigger and her grandfather gets smaller, they continue to love each other very much.

When we were saints

2003
Inspired by his grandfather's last words and guided by a girl who believes they are saints, fourteen-year-old Archie sets out on a spiritual quest that takes him from southern Appalachia to the Cloisters Museum in New York City.

The boy on Cinnamon Street

2013
Since a tragedy she cannot remember, thirteen-year-old Louise has changed her name, given up gymnastics, moved in with her grandparents, and locked her feelings inside but through her friends Reni and Hen and notes from a secret admirer she begins to find herself again.

About face

1999
Both Glory Bea Goode, who lives with her grandmother over a second-hand store in Turnback, Missouri, and Marvalene Zulig, who travels with her parents with Shuroffs' Spectacular carnival, are unhappy with their lives until their friendship gives them a new perspective.

Cam Jansen

the birthday mystery
2005
Cam searches for the thief who robbed her grandparents on their way to her parents' suprise birthday party.

Over the river

2002
Eleven-year-old Willa Mae finds herself struggling to understand old family tensions and secrets when her father returns from the war in 1947 to claim her from her grandparents with whom she has been living for the past five years.

The spring tone

2001
Plagued by headaches and nightmares, Tomomi tries to make sense of her grandmother's death, her little brother's obsession with saving sick and abandoned cats, and her fear that she is becoming a monster.

Where I belong

2011
When sixteen-year-old Corinne Corcoran's father loses his job, she is forced to give up her privileged Manhattan lifestyle and move to Broken Spoke, Texas, where she discovers that life is more than shopping sprees and country clubs.

A nervous night

2010
Katie is nervous about a sleepover at her grandparents' house.

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