Take Me Out To The Ball Game
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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subjects: children's songs, baseball, songs, baseball stories, grandmothers [X], grandparent and child, picture books for children, base-ball
Glass Slippers Give You Blisters
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
George's Marvelous Medicine
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
Dicey's Song
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
subjects: brothers and sisters, family life, siblings, newbery medal, grandmothers [X], family, families
A Long Way From Chicago
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
subjects: grandmothers [X], depressions, country life, great depression, 1929-1939, illinois, brothers and sisters, historical fiction, chicago (ill.), extreme read-spunk, historical fiction
Sun & Spoon
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
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
Old Granny And The Bean Thief
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
Junie B. Jones Is A Party Animal
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
subjects: jones, junie b. (fictitious character), grandmothers [X], wealth, jones, junie b. (fictional character), barbara park, denise brunkus, slumber party
When Lightning Comes In A Jar
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
The Name Quilt
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
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There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Fly Guy
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
subjects: flies, pets, grandmothers [X], humorous stories, humorous fiction, animals, humorous fiction
Once Upon A Crime
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
subjects: characters in literature, sisters, grandmothers [X], new york (n.y.), drew, nancy (fictitious character), fund raising, sabotage, mystery fiction, characters and characteristics in literature, detective and mystery fiction, fantasy fiction
Those Shoes
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
The Fairy-tale Detectives
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
subjects: sisters, orphans, grandmothers [X], monsters, fantasy fiction, detective and mystery fiction, mystery fiction