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1) Heidi
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Description
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
Pub. Date
©2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Matt Fleming can't get it together as a lawyer or boyfriend. His mother asks him to check on his eccentric grandfather. Matt can't understand his grandfather's bare-bones existence until he meets Gwen. When his friends come to find him he has to make a decision.
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Series
Fourteenth goldfish volume 1
Description
Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.
5) Tom
Author
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
Aside from having the same name, Tommy and his grandfather Tom share a sense of humor.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
In the vein of When You Trap a Tiger and Shouting at the Rain, this is the story of the journey one girl undertakes to find herself. After Breda Moriarity gets caught stealing one too many times, Breda's mom sends her to Ireland, a place she has never been, to live with the grandfather she has never met. While Breda doesn't want to be in this strange land, she finally gets to meet Granda, her mom's father. He's a grumpy farmer who is also a seanchai,...
7) The hat hunt
Author
Pub. Date
©1988
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Description
When the hat he never takes off suddenly disappears, Grandpa searches for it all over town and in the process finds a variety of objects from his past.
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Series
Circus Mirandus volume 1
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"--
11) A game of Noctis
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Pub. Date
2024.
Description
A thrilling middle grade fantasy about a girl who must participate in a deadly game with a ragtag team of players to save her grandfather from a terrible fate--perfect for fans of James Riley and Shannon Messenger! In the opulent, sinking city of Dantessa, the Great Game rules all. Pia Paro believes that so long as you follow the rules, you always have a chance at winning. But after her beloved Gramps is sentenced to a life of servitude, Pia accepts...
12) Grandpa Green
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A child explores the ordinary life of his extraordinary great-grandfather, as expressed in his topiary garden.
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Twelve-year-old Clare Burch has just lost the person she loves most in the world. She wonders if her feelings of sorrow and self-blame over her grandfather's death will ever go away. Out of the blue, a special request sends Clare on a journey from her home in Chicago to the Northwoods of Wisconsin. She knows that she must honor Grandpa Anthony's last wishes, even though they completely upend her summertime plans. Clare heads to rural Alwyn with her...
15) Abuelo
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Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
[29] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Description
An illustrated story about a boy and his grandfather, and the family bond that can span miles.
17) Bag of bones
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Description
On falling in love with a woman half his age, novelist Michael Noonan of Maine is drawn into a custody battle for the woman's daughter. The father-in-law, a nasty millionaire, is trying to take the girl away and to complicate matters malevolent spirits are at work. Part love, part ghost story.
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"In the summer of 1995, a Korean War vet struggling to raise his sixteen-year-old grandson on a farm in southern Indiana receives a mysterious gift--a beautiful quarter horse--that upends the balance of their lives. The horse catches the attention of two meth-dealing brothers who steal and sell the animal. Grandfather and grandson pursue the ruthless criminals across the bleak heartland, all the while confronting the misperceptions [sic] of their...
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