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Daughters of war volume 3
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In 1960s Marrakech, a young girl, travels to meet her estranged grandmother. Vicky Baudin steps on to the train through Morocco looking for the truth about the woman who gave her father up for adoption decades before. Clemence Petier lives in a kasbah on the edge of the Atlas Mountains, her background shrouded in mystery. But the past holds secrets that threaten them both. A face from Clemence's childhood threatens to expose everything she has built...
83) Icy watermelon
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When three generations of a family gather to eat watermelon, the grandparents reminisce about how the sweet fruit brought them together.
84) Colton countdown
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"Widow Theresa Fitzgerald is frantic when her young twins are abducted by their doomsayer grandparents. Hardened army sergeant Ezra Colton vows to find the girls he'd unexpectedly bonded with while home on leave. Ezra's emotional investment and stealth skills give Theresa hope. But the closer they get--to each other and the grandparents' trail--the more dangerous the desperate search for her daughters becomes."--Back cover.
85) Fishing Frankie
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When a water-loving Bengal cat, Frankie, arrives at her grandparents' cat hotel, Tabitha decides to build him an indoor water attraction in hopes he will stop trying to escape to a nearby lake for some fishing. Includes information about Bengal cats, glossary, discussion questions, and writing prompts.
87) My mountain song
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One summer day on her great-grandparents' Kentucky farm, a squabble with her cousin Melvin spurs Brenda Gail to begin choosing the moments that will become her own special song made of memories.
88) This old van
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"Vidal's soft pastel palette and comically inventive, Peter Max-inspired illustrations -- from the grinning, wide-eyed bulldozers to the hard-hat-wearing mountain goats -- are reminiscent of the Saturday-morning-cartoons of the 1960s... This intergenerational romp filled with sight gags and puns will keep readers humming as they pore over each detail-packed page." -- Kirkus Reviews
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Following her grandfather's death in rural North Carolina in 1947, twelve-year-old Pattie Mae learns more about her family after reading her grandmother's collection of obituaries and traveling to Harlem, New York, to find her uncle who has escaped from the Ku Klux Klan.
91) Leaping Lizzie
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Tabitha Catarina is staying at her grandparents' farm/cat hotel for the summer, and she is thrilled when the owner of Queen Lizzie's Pizza Palace brings Queen Lizzie, a Sphynx cat, to Tabby Towers to stay because Lizzie keeps jumping up on the counter too close to the food--but her owner is sad, so Tabitha sets out to research this bad behavior and come up with a solution that will allow Lizzie to remain in the store that is named after her.
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Long Pond volume 3
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While fishing for bass, Katie and her grandfather observe a deer, an osprey, a goose, and other pond visiters.
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"As a child, Kate Hamilton was packed off each summer to her grandfather's ivy-covered villa in southern France. That ancestral home, named Marthe Marie, is now crumbling, and it falls to Kate--regarded as the most responsible and practical member of her family--to return to the rugged, beautiful seaside region to confront her grandfather's debts and convince him to sell. Kate makes her living as a psychologist and life coach, but her own life is...
96) One dark night
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A young boy and his grandparents help a mother and her kittens find safety during a summer thunderstorm.
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Jack and Rachel leave Culpepper for their long-awaited honeymoon trip, a driving tour through New England. On day three, they stop at a little bayside town in Cape Cod to visit Jack's grandmother. After he gets called away to handle an emergency, Rachel stays and listens as Jack's grandmother shares a remarkable story about how she and Jack's grandfather met in the early days of World War 2. It's a story filled with danger, decades-old family secrets,...
98) Harvest song
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A little girl and her grandmother share many activities together.
99) Roads
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Provides a child's view of a car trip to visit grandparents.
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Finding their holiday home With Christmas In His Heart By Gail Gaymer Martin: Caring for her grandmother was a labor of love, but Christine Powers worried about the paper piling up in her office. As soon as she arrived on Mackinac Island, she was challenged by Will Lambert, her grandmother's boarder. His laid-back style and faith in this season of joy grew on her. But an ultimatum to return to work or lose her job forces Christine to make a difficult...
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