grandmothers

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Grandma's Saturday soup

Mimi misses her grandma. Every day something reminds her of grandma's special Saturday soup and the tales of Jamaica her grandmother tells.

Tia Lugo speaks no evil

Sneaking the courage to speak out after she witnesses a murder late one night, thirteen-year-old Tia Lugo turns to her grandmother's favorite shopping spot--the botanica.

Granny Torrelli makes soup

With the help of her wise old grandmother, twelve-year-old Rosie manages to work out some problems in her relationship with her best friend, Bailey, the boy next door.

Joy takes root

"In her grandmother's garden, a young Black girl learns about mindfulness and herbal medicine in this soothing intergenerational story about our connection to nature."--Amazon.com.

Parker grows a garden

Parker is visiting her grandmothers, Nana and Mom Mom, and she helps them plant flowers, vegetables, and herbs in the garden. As the seasons change, Parker patiently waits to see everything bloom. Spring finally arrives, and blooming flowers, birds, and bees come right along with it.

Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh

niibing, dgwaagig, bboong, mnookmig dbaadjigaade maanpii mzin'igning = La Terre me parle : un livre sur les saisons
"In this lyrical story-poem, written in Ojibwa and French, a child and grandmother explore their surroundings, taking pleasure in the familiar sights that each new season brings. We accompany them through warm summer days full of wildflowers, bees and blueberries, then fall, when bears feast before hibernation and forest mushrooms are ripe for harvest. Winter mornings begin in darkness as deer, mice and other animals search for food, while spring brings green shoots poking through melting snow and the chirping of peepers"--Provided by publisher.

Fishing

2006
"A child goes fishing each day with one or all of the family except for two days only with Grandma."--OCLC.

Grandma Ruth's garden

2008
Danny and Grandma Ruth spend time in the garden.

The big bike race

Ernest Peterson's hopes of winning the Washington, D.C., Citywide Cup bicycle race are shattered when his grandmother gives him a huge, clunky, yellow bike for his tenth birthday.

Dear Rebecca, winter is here

A grandmother explains to her granddaughter how the arrival of winter brings changes in nature and the earth's creatures, and how the return of spring and summer will bring more changes.

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