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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"A quintessential Jojo Moyes novel about a lost girl and her horse, the enduring strength of friendship, and how even the smallest choices can change everything. When Sarah's grandfather gives her a beautiful horse named Boo, hoping that one day she'll follow in his footsteps to join an elite French riding school away from their gritty London neighborhood, she quietly trains in city parks and alleys. But then her grandfather falls ill, and Sarah must...
Author
Language
English
Description
Struggling to understand why her beloved grandfather left his family to die alone in a field hospital far from home, a young doctor in a war-torn Balkan country takes over her grandfather's search for a mythical ageless vagabond while referring to a worn copy of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book."
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Language
English
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Acclaimed author Norton Juster is the recipient of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Honors Award for The Hello, Goodbye Window. He is also a proud grandfather who pens a charming tale about a young child's imagination. A little girl visits Nanna and Poppy's house. Their kitchen window looks quite ordinary, but it's so much more!
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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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...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An aspiring teen singer goes to live with her grandmother, once a country music legend, but has fallen on hard times after the death of her husband five years earlier.
Author
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
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"Good things happen at the lake. That's what Alice's grandmother says, and it's true. Alice spent just one summer at a cottage with Nan when she was seventeen--it's where she took that photo, the one of three grinning teenagers in a yellow speedboat, the image that changed her life. Now Alice lives behind a lens. As a photographer, she's most comfortable on the sidelines, letting other people shine. Lately, though, she's been itching for something...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Victorian socialite Clara Stanton strives to protect her eccentric family's reputation, but that proves to be difficult when her grandfather takes off on a flight of fancy. Thrown together with vagabond tinker Theodore Kingsley, Clara sets off to follow her grandfather's whimsical adventure and finds love along the way"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Familius
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Grandmothers make the best cookies and give the best hugs, but there's so much more to being the kind of grandmother who leaves a legacy that stands the test of time. New York Times #1 bestselling author and grandmother Linda Eyre shares her secret formula for teaching your grandchildren values, building meaningful connections with them, and giving them grit and resilience in an ever-changing world. Broken into short, digestible chapters for quick...
10) My grandparents
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English
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Lenny follows Layla for a school project and learns what it is like to live with grandparents.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A keenly observant and "whip smart" (Sunday Telegraph) debut novel, following a former competitive swimmer and granddaughter of a famous Irish poet as she comes of age in the shadow of her family's tragic past, perfect for fans of Sally Rooney, Lily King's Writers & Lovers, and Elif Batuman's The Idiot"-- Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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"When Iris unexpectedly inherits her grandmother's house in the country, she also inherits the painful memories that live there. Iris gives herself a one-week stay at the old house, after which she'll make a decision: keep it, or sell it. The choice is not so simple, though, for her grandmother's cottage is an enchanting place where currant jam tastes of tears, sparks fly from fingertips, love's embrace makes apple trees blossom, and the darkest family...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Roger Rosenblatt's memoir, Making Toast, tells the story of his daughter's unexpected death and his family's courageous efforts to rebuild their lives in its wake. Luminous and utterly unsentimental, Making Toast is both Rosenblatt's tribute to his daughter Amy, and a brave exploration of the human capacity to move through and beyond grief.
When Amy-a gifted doctor, mother, and wife-collapses and dies from an asymptomatic heart condition...Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While her grandmother was alive, Emma's world was filled with enchantment. But now Gram is gone, and suddenly strange spots are appearing on Emma's skin. Soon, she's diagnosed with vitiligo--a condition that makes patches of her skin lose their color--and the magic in her world is suddenly replaced with school bullies and doctor appointments. But when Emma writes one last story in the journal she shared with Gram, something strange happens. Someone...
17) Baking up love
Author
Publisher
Page Education Foundation
Pub. Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A little girl and her grandfather bake cupcakes for school.
Publisher
Hallmark
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by Scotty McCreery's song, "Five More Minutes," a woman's Christmas wish is answered in unexpected ways when her late grandfather's journal turns up and reveals an untold romance.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
No two grandpas are the same, but whether they are a wacky barber, a daring explorer, a genius inventor, or a stay-at-home-papa, you can always count on grandpas for the love they have to give.









