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IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
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George is alone in the house with Grandma. The most horrid, grizzly old grunion of a grandma ever. She needs something stronger than her usual medicine to cure her grouchiness. A special grandma medicine, a remedy for everything. And George knows just what to put into it. Grandma's in for the surprise of her life—and so is George, when he sees the results of his mixture!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Junie B. is spending the night!
Lucille is having a sleepover party -- at her richie nanna's big giant house! Grace and Junie B. can't wait to see all the rich stuff in that place. Sleeping over at the nanna's is sure to be a dream come true!' Cause what could possibly go wrong?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
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Kenny Wright is a kid with a secret identity. In his mind, he's Stainlezz Steel, super-powered defender of the weak. In reality, he's a chess club devotee known as a "grandma's boy," a label that makes him an easy target for bullies. Kenny wants to bring a little more Steel to the real world, but can he recognize his own true strength before peer pressure forces him to make the worst choice of his life?
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2018.
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Ellen is putting the finishing touches on a wedding quilt made from scraps of old dresses when the bride-to-be-her granddaughter June-unexpectedly arrives and announces she's calling off the marriage. With the tending of June's uncertain heart in mind, Ellen tells her the story of Nell, a Kansas-born woman who goes to the High Plains of New Mexico Territory in 1898 in search of a husband. Working as a biscuit-shooter, Nell falls for a cowboy named...
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Sisters Grimm volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead and find out that they must take on the family responsibility of being fairy-tale detectives.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
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Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage
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"When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni's Korean folktales arrives. The tiger offers Lily a deal- if Lily will open her grandmother's star jars and return what she stole, the tiger will heal her grandmother. But deals with tigers are never what they seem! With the help of her sister and her new friend Ricky, Lily must find her voice . . . and the courage to face a tiger. Tae Keller,...
10) The witches
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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This Roald Dahl classic tells the scary, funny and imaginative tale of a seven-year-old boy who has a run-in with some real-life witches! In fairy tales witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy tale. This is about REAL WITCHES. REAL WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women. They live in ordinary houses and they work in ordinary jobs. That is why they...
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Catherine, recently divorced, comes to live in her grandmother's house and discovers her diary that tells how she raised her sisters, was sent to a sanitarium for tuberculosis, fell in love and how she had changed when she returned home. It allows the granddaughter to see her own patterns of disappointment and compromise in her life and that of her grandmother
13) Notorious
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"Gaby Dupont knows some men shouldn't be trusted, ever. Especially not high-profile lawyer Jake Chandler. How can she trust the man who might be helping her greedy relatives steal her family fortune? To get the inside scoop on Jakes dealings, and protect herself and her beloved grandmere, Gaby must take a job with the devil himself. Of course, she can't tell him who she really is..."
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
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In 1911, when orphaned ten-year-old Inge comes to live with her stern grandmother in a remote island village in Bornholm, Denmark, she ends up changing the climate of the town, bringing joy and laughter to her grandmother's life and finding a new family for herself to help assuage her grief over losing her mother.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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This heartwarming tale of love, life, and friendship by the Newbery Medalist tells the story of how Granny Torrelli's warm words and secret recipes mend a rift between 12-year-old Rosie and her best friend.
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.
17) Tribute
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Child star Cilla McGowan rehabs her famous grandmother's long-neglected farm. Cilla's movie-star grandmother, the Marilyn Monroe like Janet Hardy, who died mysteriously on the farm at age 39, haunts Cilla as she transforms the former hideaway of the rich and famous into habitable living space and tries to resolve whether Janet committed suicide or was murdered. While cleaning out the attic, Cilla unearths a collection of unsigned love letters to Janet...
18) Secrets, book 1
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Michelli family volume 1
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Long-hidden secrets unveiled at a lovely old villa. Antonia stared out the Studebaker's rear window as it sped away from her grandfather Quillan's Sonoma villa, leaving behind the vineyard that had been life to her family, a life now lost. The old villa needed what Rese Barrett could do as well as any man on the crew. Trained by the best, she had honed her skills with a passion for quality, an eye for detail, and no room for compromise. Renovation...
19) Olive's ocean
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer.
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[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
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Jennifer Hernandez is a medical student who hears a news report on medical tourism: first-world citizens traveling to third-world countries for surgery. Then she hears her grandmother's name: Maria Hernandez has died after a hip replacement in New Delhi. That Maria traveled to India is a shock to Jennifer, until she realizes it was the only viable option for the uninsured woman. Jennifer heads to India and presses for more information. With two more...