Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 200
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reluctantly heading for America in search of opportunity, a penniless young man goes west, rides a riverboat, and is overtaken by bad company, while the battle for his grandfather's gold in London reveals new depths of family treachery
Author
Series
Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Heart of the Wilderness, young Kendra Marty goes to live with her grandfather after her parents die in a river accident. But what can a trapper living in the backwoods offer a small child? Will Kendra ever be ready to face the scary and confusing world far from the wilderness she loves?
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Old grudges, tribal traditions, and outside influences collide for a Kiowa woman as forces threaten her family, her tribe, and the land of her ancestors. No one called her Mud in Silicon Valley. There, she was Mae, a high-powered professional who had left her Kiowa roots behind a decade ago. But a cryptic voice message left from her grandfather, James Sawpole, telling her to come home sounds so wrong that she catches the next plane to Oklahoma. She...
Author
Series
Fourteenth goldfish volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 27
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on a camping trip with their grandfather, the Alden children try to find out about the loud music and missing food that threatens to scare away other campers
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Intimate stranger is a poetic and emotional jigsaw puzzle carved out of the voluminous memorabilia of his grandfather's life story. Family members try to make sense of it all in this witty, candid and cinematically inventive documentary biography. In nobody's business, Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant and graceful study of family history and memory.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In 1964, when Jaime Sonoro, Mexico's most renowned actor and singer, discovers a book telling of the multitude of horrific crimes committed by his ancestors, he must pay for their crimes unless he can uncover the truth about his grandfather, the legendary bandido El Tragabalas, The Bullet Swallower"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explores some of the many and varied ways a grandfather can express his love, even without saying the words, such as by sharing his coin collection, holding hands when crossing the street, and attending tea parties.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Merci Suárez begins the sixth grade and knows things will change, but she did not count on her grandfather acting strangely, not fitting in at her private school, and dealing with Edna Santos' jealousy.
14) A reason to die
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When his dying grandfather gives him clues to a buried fortune in gold, Perley Gates goes up against ruthless lowlifes, kill-crazy prairie rats, gunfighters, outlaws, and Indians in order to claim the treasure.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A horrific family tragedy sends sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of an old orphanage that was home to children who were more than just peculiar, but possibly dangerous--and who may still be alive. Illustrated with vintage found photographs.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A grandfather and his grandson enjoy sharing knock-knock jokes, playing games, hot chocolate, watching movies, reading books, playing baseball and just spending time together
Author
Language
English
Description
"Its 1963, and Calvin Sidey, one of the last of the old cowboys, has long ago left his family to live a life of self-reliance out on the prairie. Hes been a mostly absentee father and grandfather until his estranged son asks him to stay with his grandchildren, Ann and Will, for a week while he and his wife are away. So Calvin agrees to return to the small town where he once was a mythic figure, to the very home he once abandoned. But trouble soon...
Author
Series
Storm keeper's island volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fionn Boyle, terrified of the sea, must spend the summer with this older sister, Tara, and their grandfather on Arranmore, an island that has been known to make people disappear, and seems to be restless again.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Brazil's most acclaimed young novelist, the mesmerizing story of how a troubled young man's restorative journey to the seaside becomes a violent struggle with his family's past - So why did they kill him? - I'm getting there. Patience, tche̲. I wanted to give you the context. Because it's a good story, isn't it? A young man's father, close to death, reveals to his son the true story of his grandfather's death, or at least the truth as he...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request