No Sad Songs
"Following a family tragedy, 18-year-old Gabe LoScuda suddenly finds himself thrust into the role of caregiver for his ailing grandfather.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: dementia, alzheimer's disease, family life, grandparent and child, grandfathers [X], young men, families [X], bildungsromans
The Third Mushroom
When thirteen-year-old Ellie's Grandpa Melvin, a world-renowned scientist in the body of a fourteen-year-old boy, comes for an extended visit, he teaches her that experimenting--and failing--is part of life.
FIC
year:
copies: 98
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 500
subjects: grandfathers [X], scientists, aging, middle schools, schools, friendship, family life, school stories, families [X]
The Runaways
Grandpa hates being in hospital. He thinks only of the place he was happiest---the island where he used to live.
FIC
year:
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 480
subjects: aging, families [X], grandfathers [X], grandparent and child, grief, hospitals, family life, grandparent-grandchild relationship, adventure stories, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction
Finding Orion
"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.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 34
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
I Miss You, Grandad
Tom has a lot of questions after his grandfather dies, but he worries most of all that Grandad will not know he is dead and tries to figure out how to send him a message.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
A Song Only I Can Hear
Thirteen-year-old Rob, a painfully shy wallflower, receives a series of mysterious text messages challenging him to leave his comfort zone as he tries to impress new student Destry Camberwick.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: bashfulness, self-confidence, grandfathers [X], families [X], gender identity, family life, shyness, australia
A Ceiling Made Of Eggshells
From age seven, Loma relishes traveling with her beloved grandfather across fifteenth-century Spain, working to keep the Jews safe, but soon realizes she must also make sacrifices to help her people.
FIC
year:
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Josie Bloom And The Emergency Of Life
In 1977, middle-schooler Josie secretly takes on her aging grandfather's financial problems while also helping her friend Winky bail his Major League Baseball idol out of the town jail.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: finance, personal, grandfathers [X], friendship, baseball stories, families [X], baseball, family life, personal finance, maine
Newspaper Hats
A little girl, Georgie, visits her grandfather in the nursing home where he is suffering from memory loss, and manages to reconnect with him when they make newspaper hats for everyone.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: memory in old age, families [X], grandfathers [X], grandparent and child, nursing homes, newspapers, memory, old age, family life
El Pez N?mero Catorce
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.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: grandfathers [X], scientists, aging, families [X], family life, spanish language materials
The D.o.g.
Lola is determined to get a dog, but first she must convince her mother and grandfather, get the rules changed in her building, and a few other things.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: dogs, pet adoption, apartment houses, grandfathers [X], family life, readers (elementary), domestic fiction, animal fiction, fiction / readers / chapter books, fiction / family / multigenerational, fiction / animals / dogs, families [X]
Gigi And Ojiji
"Gigi can't wait for her Ojiji--Japanese grandpa--to move in. Gigi plans lots of things to do with him, like playing tag, reading books, and teaching Roscoe, the family dog, new tricks.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 45
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: japanese americans, racially mixed people, grandfathers [X], grandparent and child, families [X], names, family life, readers (publications), gigi, girls
Turkey Hunt Tradition
On a family hunting trip, twelve-year-old April misses her grandfather but hopes to bag the biggest turkey, using Grandjack's lucky box call.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: hunting stories, turkeys, grandfathers [X], families [X], hunting, family life, hunting fiction
The Infinite Questions Of Dottie Bing
Ten-year-old Dottie learns to navigate the odd spaces between grieving and everyday living when her newly widowed grandfather comes to stay with her family.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
The Last Stand
A little boy is excited to work alongside his Papa as they collect eggs, plums, peppers and pumpkins to sell at their stand in the farmer's market, but when Papa cannot make it to the stand, his community gathers around him, with dishes made of his own produce.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 540
subjects: family-owned business enterprises, families [X], community life, farmers' markets, african americans, helping behavior, family life, helpfulness, markets, black owned farms, picture books, grandfathers [X], farmers