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River Falls Public
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September
2005
Grandparents
Younger Fiction
- Carlson, Nancy
Hooray for Grandparents' Day!
Penguin, 2000
E Car (Picture Books)
Arnie doesn't have grandparents to come to school on Grandparent's Day,
but it turns out he has a lot of people who can substitute.
- Crunk, Tony
Big
Mama
Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 2000
E Cru (Grades 1-3)
Billy Boyd likes living with his grandmother, Big Mama, because she can
make a space capsule out of junk, joins in all kinds of games, and turn
a trip for ice cream into an adventure,
- Darling, Benjamin
Valerie
and the Silver Pear
Four Winds Press, 1992
E Dar (Grades 1-3)
Valerie and her grandfather preserve the memory of her grandmother by
making pear pies together.
- Dorros, Arthur
Abuela
Dutton Children's Books, 1991
E Dor (Grades 1-3)
While riding on a bus with her grandmother, a little girl imagines that
they are carried up into the sky and fly over the sights of New York
City.
- Flory, Jane
The
Unexpected Grandchildren
Houghton Mifflin, 1977
E Flo (Grades 1-3)
Mr. and Mrs. Newton's life was orderly and precise until the day they
received a letter announcing the arrival of unexpected grandchildren.
- Hill, Eric
Spot
Visits His Grandparents
G.Putnam, 1996
E Hil (Picture Books)
Spot, the lovable dog, goes to visit his grandparents for a day.
- Kunhardt, Edith
Grandma
and Grandpa Smith
Western Publishing, 1985
E Kun (Grades 1-3)
Sam and Sally have a wonderful time vacationing in the country with
their grandparents.
- Mason, Ann Maree
The
Weird Things in Nanna's House
Orchard House, 1991
E Mas (Picture Books)
A young girl wonders at the many unusual things in Nanna's house and
imagines what they are used for.
- Polacco , Patricia
The
Trees of the Dancing Goats
Simon and Schuster, 1996
E Pol (Grades 1-3)
During a scarlet fever epidemic one winter in Michigan, a Jewish family
helps make Christmas special for their sick neighbors by making their
own Hanukkah miracle.
- Shapiro, Jody
Up,
up, up! It's Apple Picking Time
Holiday House, 2003
E Sha (Picture Books)
Myles and his family go to his grandparents apple ranch, where they have
a wonderful time picking and selling apples together.
Older Fiction
- Creech, Sharon
Walk
Two Moons
Harper Collins, 1994
+ PB Cre
After her mother leaves home, thirteen year old Sal and her grandparents
take a car trip retracing the route her mother took. Along the way she
recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
- Kornblatt, Marc
Izzy's
Place
Margaret McElderry Books
+ Kor
While spending the summer at his grandmother's Indiana home, ten year
old Henry Stone gets help from a new friend in coping with the recent
death of his grandfather and the possibility of his parents getting
divorced.
- MacLachlan, Patricia
Journey
Bantam, Doubleday Dell, 1991
+ Mac
When their mother goes off, leaving her two children with their
grandparents, the children feel as if their past has been erased until
Grandfather finds a way to restore it to them.
- Peck, Richard
A
Long Way From Chicago
Puffin Books, 1997
+ PB Pec
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister
during the Great Depression to visit their larger than life grandmother.
- Wiles, Deborah
Love,
Ruby Lavender
Gulliver Books, 2001
+ Wil
When her quirky grandmother goes to Hawaii for the summer, nine year old
Ruby learns to survive on her own in Mississippi by writing letters,
befriending chickens as well as the new girl in town, and finally coping
with her grandfather's death.
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