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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy--as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother's stories, in the Land-of-Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas, where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal. When Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing...
2) Foreign body
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
A series of unexplained deaths in foreign hospitals sends Jennifer Hernandez, an idealistic UCLA medical student, on a desperate search for answers about her grandmother's sudden death. With the discovery of other unexplained deaths followed by hasty cremations, Jennifer reaches out to her mentor, New York City medical examiner Dr. Laurie Montgomery, who has her own deep connection to Jennifer's grandmother.
3) Graveminder
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Rebekkah Barrow never forgot the tender attention her grandmother, Maylene, bestowed upon the dead of Claysville. Now Maylene is dead and Bek must go back to the place--and the man--she left a decade ago. But what she soon discovers is that Maylene was murdered. It turns out that in placid Claysville, the worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously connected.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Majella is happiest out of the spotlight, living a quiet life away from neighbors' stares and the gossips of the small town in Northern Ireland where she grew up during the Troubles. But underneath her seemingly predictable existence, she doesn't know where her father is, and every person in her town has been changed by the lingering divide between Protestants and Catholics. When Majella's grandmother dies, she comes to realize there may be more...
Author
Series
Yue shi jie volume 121
Publisher
Tian pei wen hua you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother s stories, in the Land-of-Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas, where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal. When Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Williams women don't just keep secrets...They bury them. The three Williams girls are as close as sisters can be, and they also share one special trait in common: each of them have a man in their lives that they could do without...Their sister-in-law Stephanie, an outsider, knows all the family dirt and is watching the three of them...When the woman who raised them, their beloved Gran, dies on the eve of her eightieth birthday, the Williams sisters...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Heather Webber's Midnight at the Blackbird Café is a captivating blend of magical realism, heartwarming romance, and small-town Southern charm. Nestled in the mountain shadows of Alabama lies the little town of Wicklow. It is here that Anna Kate has returned to bury her beloved Granny Zee, owner of the Blackbird Café. It was supposed to be a quick trip to close the café and settle her grandmother's estate, but despite her best intentions to avoid...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Two high school enemies must reunite for a road trip inspired by their grandparents' broken engagement in this electric debut romance. Noelle Shepherd is unemployed, living with her parents, and grieving the loss of her beloved grandmother when she discovers decades-old photos of Gram and a smitten man, tucked alongside a love letter. She creates a TikTok to search for the mystery man, which goes viral, and she's shocked when his grandson responds--a...
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