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Take Me Out To The Ball Game

author: Kovalski, Maryann
A grandmother takes her two granddaughters to a ballgame. Includes music and text to the song "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" (words by Jack Norworth; music by Albert von Tilzer).
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
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Glass Slippers Give You Blisters

author: Auch, Mary Jane
Kelly's involvement in helping design a production of her junior high school's drama club, spurred on by encouragement from her artistic grandmother, helps her discover her own artistic identity.
FIC
year: 1990
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: theater, artists, grandmothers [X]

George's Marvelous Medicine

author: Dahl, Roald
George decides that his grumpy, selfish old grandmother must be a witch and concocts some marvelous medicine to take care of her.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 125
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: grandmothers [X], magic, humorous stories

Dicey's Song

author: Voigt, Cynthia, Voigt
Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 55
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710

A Long Way From Chicago

author: Peck, Richard
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 229
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750

Sun & Spoon

author: Henkes, Kevin
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.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 45
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780

The Charm Bracelet

author: Rodda, Emily
When Jessie searches for her ill grandmother's missing charm bracelet, she is led to a magical world and finds she has a reason and right to be there.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 42
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: grandmothers [X], fairies, bracelets, magic, fantasy

Old Granny And The Bean Thief

author: Defelice, Cynthia C
After a thief steals Old Granny's beans while she is asleep at night, she gets some surprising help with catching him.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 48
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: grandmothers [X], beans, robbers and outlaws, country life

Junie B. Jones Is A Party Animal

author: Park, Barbara, Park, Babara,
Lucille invites Junie B. and her friend Grace to sleep over at her very rich nanna's house, where everything is beautiful, expensive, and breakable.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 139
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 380

When Lightning Comes In A Jar

author: Polacco, Patricia
A young girl describes the family reunion at her grandmother's house, from the food and baseball and photos to the flickering fireflies on the lawn.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 94
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 540
subjects: family reunions, grandmothers [X], family life

The Name Quilt

author: Root, Phyllis
One of Sadie's favorite things to do when she visits her grandmother is to hear stories about the family members whose names are on a special quilt that Grandma had made, so Sadie is very sad when the quilt is blown away in a storm.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: quilts, grandmothers [X]

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Fly Guy

author: Arnold, Tedd, Tedd Arnold
After accidentally swallowing her grandson's pet fly, Grandma tries to retrieve it by consuming progressively larger animals.
FIC
year: 9120
copies: 191
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 370

Once Upon A Crime

author: Buckley, Michael, Keene, Carolyn
When the fairy-tale detectives rush to New York City hoping to find an Everafter who can cure Puck, they trigger a chain of events that includes a murder mystery, and learn many new things about their mother who, along with their father, is still in an enchanted sleep.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 102
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720

Those Shoes

author: Boelts, Maribeth
Jeremy, who longs to have the black high tops that everyone at school seems to have but his grandmother cannot afford, is excited when he sees them for sale in a thrift shop and decides to buy them even though they are the wrong size.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 143
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: shoes, grandmothers [X], poverty, generosity

The Fairy-tale Detectives

author: Buckley, Michael
Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 173
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840

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