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Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle's mother has disappeared. While tracing her steps on a car trip from Ohio to Idaho with her grandparents, Salamanca tells a story to pass the time about a friend named Phoebe Winterbottom whose mother vanished and who received secret messages after her disappearance. One of them read, "Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins." Despite her father's warning that she is "fishing in the...
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Little Bear enjoys a visit with his grandparents. Mrs. Minarik is at her superb best in depicting the charming childlikeness of Little Bear's delight in visiting his grandparents. Little Bear and his parents are familiar to almost all beginning readers. And now they will meet Grandmother and Grandfather Bear, whom they are sure to love as much as Little Bear does.
3) Fablehaven
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Fablehaven volume 1
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When Kendra and Seth go to stay at their grandparents' estate, they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and that a battle between good and evil is looming.
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Young Amelia Bedelia (Picture books) volume 3
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While visiting her grandparents, literal-minded Amelia Bedelia finally learns, despite some mishaps, how to bake an apple pie.
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"It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two sons, their grandchildren, even their faithful old dog--is on the porch, listening contentedly as Abby tells the tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different too: Abby and Red are growing older, and decisions...
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The frontier railroad has bridged the miles and made Marty's dream of a reunion with Missie and Willie a reality. Marty and Clark are thrilled to meet their two new grandsons for the very first time. Missie beams with pride as she shows her parents her beautiful home and Willie's successful ranch. Anxious to hear news of her family, MIssie plies her mother with questions about her brother sand sisters back home. Their vacation is idyllic, filled with...
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The four Dollanganger children had such perfect lives--a beautiful mother, a doting father, a lovely home. Then suddenly, Daddy was killed in a car accident, and Momma was left deeply in debt, with no skills to earn a living to support her family. So she began writing letters to her parents, her millionaire parents, whom the children had never heard of before. Momma tells them all about their rich grandparents, and about how Chris and Cathy and thetTwins...
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"They're alive! Jodie loves visiting her grandparents' farm. Okay, so it's not the most exciting place in the world. Still, Grandpa tells great scary stories. And Grandma's chocolate chip pancakes are the best. But this summer the farm has really changed. The cornfields are sparse. Grandma and Grandpa seem worn out. And the single scarecrow has been replaced by twelve evil-looking ones. Then one night Jodie sees something really odd. The scarecrows...
16) Rebound
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Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume Prequel
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In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.
19) Love story
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"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a new book featuring everyone's favorite family--the Baxters. Decades ago, John and Elizabeth Baxter lived a love story that is still playing out in the lives of their adult children and grandchildren. But few of them know the exact details of that story or the heartbreak that brought the two together. Now in high school, Ashley Baxter Blake's oldest son, Cole, must write a family history...
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Darius the Great volume 1
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Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's a Fractional Persian--half, his mom's side--and his first-ever trip to Iran is about to change his life. Darius has never really fit in at home, and he's sure things are going to be the same in Iran. His clinical depression doesn't exactly help matters, and trying to explain his medication to his grandparents only makes things harder....
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