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Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Twenty years after the start of the war that caused the Collapse, fifteen-year-old Stephen, his father, and grandfather travel post-Collapse America scavenging, but when his grandfather dies and his father decides to risk everything to save the lives of two strangers, Stephen's life is turned upside down.
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Series
Pub. Date
2018
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Perley Gates is the son of a cattle rancher. A restless young dreamer who, under normal circumstances, would follow in his father's footsteps. Normal, however, is not his style. Like his famous grandfather and namesake Perley Gates--a hell-raising mountain man with a heavenly name--young Perley wants adventure, excitement, and freedom. And like his grandfather before him, he will find his dream--in the untamed wilds of a lawless frontier. That dream...
65) Forever hidden
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Series
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For Havyn Powell, growing up on her grandfather Chuck Bondrant's dairy outside the 1904 gold-rush boomtown of Nome, Alaska, offered all she needed. She had the love of her mother, two sisters, and grandfather. But now, at 23, Havyn realizes the stability of her life may soon vanish. Havyn is determined to find a way to keep the family together, but her grandfather's health is declining and everyone seems to be holding secrets from each other, including...
66) Just like Jackie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
Fifth grader Robbie is determined to stay out of trouble so that she does not worry her grandfather whose memory is failing and to make sure that she and her grandfather stay together as he is the only family she has left.
67) Bag of bones
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 32
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Description
Author Michael Noonan falls into a four-year writer's block when his wife Johanna dies. The death of his wife pulls him into a mystery that brings him to Sara Laughs, the summerhouse that he shared with her. At Sara Laughs, he finds his house is haunted and he mysteriously regains his ability to write. Mike finds himself involved in a disturbing child custody tug-of-war that erupts into a terrifying battle between forces of good and evil, present...
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 5
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"With his dying words, H—Jacob Portman’s final connection to his grandfather Abe’s secret life entrusts Jacob with a mission: Deliver newly contacted peculiar Noor Pradesh to an operative known only as V. Noor is being hunted. She is the subject of an ancient prophecy, one that foretells a looming apocalypse. Save Noor—Save the future of all peculiardom. With only a few bewildering clues to follow, Jacob must figure out how to find V, the...
69) THE BECOMING
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Series
Dragon heart legacy volume 2
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Description
"A new epic of love and war among gods and humans, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Awakening. The world of magic and the world of man have long been estranged from one another. But some can walk between the two-including Breen Siobhan Kelly. She has just returned to Talamh, with her friend, Marco, who's dazzled and disoriented by this realm-a place filled with dragons and faeries and mermaids (but no WiFi, to his chagrin). In...
70) Gentlehands
Author
Pub. Date
1990,c1978
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
A teenage boy falls in love with an "upper-class" girl and gets to know his estranged grandfather in one heartbreaking summer which climaxes in a shattering search for Nazi war criminals.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
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Description
"Calvin Sidey is a cowboy of the old-school, no-guff sort--steely, hardened, with his own personal code. It's the 1960s, and he's living off the grid in a stifling trailer on the prairie when his adult son Bill seeks his help. A mostly absentee father, and a virtual no-show as a grandfather, Calvin nevertheless reluctantly agrees to stay with his grandchildren for a week. He decamps for his son's dark and musty basement, to the small town where he...
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Series
Rarities Unlimited volume 3
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Lacey Quinn adored her grandfather. Although he never achieved artistic fame, his paintings inspired her to become an artist. Now, several years after his death, she takes a few of his canvases to an expert for appraisal. When they are identified as the work of an acclaimed landscape painter, Lacey is plunged into doubt. Was her grandfather a forger--or a even a murderer?
73) Miss Rumphius
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
74) Ocean meets sky
Author
Pub. Date
c2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
"A little boy builds a ship to honor his late grandfather and sets sail for the magical place where ocean meets sky from his grandfather's stories"--
75) Kindred souls
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Ten year-old Jake shares a special bond with his grandfather, Billy, but when Billy asks Jake to build him a sod house, Jake is not sure he wants to do it.
76) Grandfathers
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Simple text and photographs present grandfathers and how they interact with their families"--Provided by publisher.
78) Stand tall
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Tree, a six-foot-three-inch twelve-year-old, copes with his parents' recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school.
79) Circus Mirandus
Author
Series
Circus Mirandus volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
"When he realizes that his grandfather's stories of an enchanted circus are true, Micah Tuttle sets out to find the mysterious Circus Mirandus--and to use its magic to save his grandfather's life"--Provided by publisher.
80) Heartlight
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Kate and her grandfather use one of his inventions, combining psychic power with quantum physics, to travel faster than the speed of light on a mission to save the sun from a premature death.