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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lily Pruitt loves her grandparents, but she doesn't love the circus -- and the circus is their life. She's perfectly happy to stay with her father, away from her neglectful mother and her grandfather's elephant, Queenie Grace. Queenie Grace, a circus elephant, is happy to have Grandpa Bill as her keeper. She has had cruel keepers in the past, but Bill is her friend and treats her with love and respect. She doesn't quite understand...
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Rion Kwirk comes from a rather odd family. His mother named him and his sisters after her favorite constellations, and his father makes funky-flavored jellybeans for a living. One sister acts as if she's always on stage, and the other is a walking dictionary. But no one in the family is more odd than Rion's grandfather, Papa Kwirk. He's the kind of guy who shows up on his motorcycle only on holidays handing out crossbows and stuffed squirrels as...
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Feeling most alive when he's playing the blues with his grandfather, Clayton is devastated when his grandfather dies and his mother forbids him from playing music, losses that compel him to run away and join bluesmen on the road.
Author
Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When a young boy's grandfather dies suddenly, he feels overwhelmed and confused. They will never see each other again. To his delight, they meet again in a dream, where his grandfather takes him to Transfer City, where our departed loved ones live on through our memories. In this modern, Eastern telling of the afterlife, death is not an ending, but a new start to life, just like the Immortal Jellyfish which is constantly maturing and then regressing,...
6) Sun & spoon
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
After the death of his grandmother, ten-year-old Spoon observes the changes in his grandfather and tries to find the perfect artifact to preserve his memories of her.
Author
Series
Aurora County trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Alvin Ho volume 1
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
A fearful second grader in Concord, Massachusetts, learns about death when his grandfather's best friend passes away and he offers to accompany his grandfather to the funeral.
11) Arch of bone
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Josiah dreams of joining the crew of whaling ship, like his father and grandfather. A sailor brings news that his father has died, and that his crew was doomed by the mad Captain Ahab and the white whale, Moby Dick. Josiah and his loyal dog, Zeke, set sail to find out the truth of his father's death.
Author
Series
7 habits of happy kids volume 7
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Goob's friends help him after his grandpa passes away.
14) Goodbye, Grandpa
Author
Publisher
Clavis Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Bear and Grandpa are going fishing today. But where is Grandpa? Bear's friends gently tell him that Grandpa has died, and together they say goodbye" --Back cover.
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