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The Choices We Make was inspired by my younger cousins, it's letting them know to love the skin that they were born in. It's also about getting to know someone for the heart that's on the inside. It's not about looking at the color of their skin that is on the outside. It's about knowing what color is and really seeing it. But choosing to be friends with someone because of their character and not judging them because of their skin color, not letting...
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A young girl explains what it is like for her and her brother to live with their grandmother in this narrative nonfiction title. Their dynamic relationship is explained as they live together in an alternative nuclear family setting. A picture-word glossary is included. This nonfiction title is paired with the fiction title A Grandmother's Story.
63) Grandma's Room
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Sandra lives with her dad and grandma. In this fictional narrative, explanatory text and key ideas will help readers follow along as Sandra learns about her grandmother's life. Bright illustrations will help readers learn the importance of listening and being respectful to one's elders. This fiction title is paired with the nonfiction title I Live with My Grandma and Grandpa.
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Hop into the back seat with Kay on her family's road trip from the mountains of Colorado to the farms of Iowa. Sometimes the back seat is unfair and the road is long, but plenty of fun and adventure awaits at Grandma's house! Going back home feels sad, but it's Kay's memories and a special gift from Grandma that make the drive home easier.
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A Visit with Two Grandmothers is a heartwarming story of a young girl who travels halfway around the world and experiences two very opposite cultures. She visits her two very different grandmothers and learns many different things from them. She realizes how lucky she is to have this opportunity and finds out how similar yet different each culture is.
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Going for a Walk with Papa: Story of Houses is an idea created from love. This book is dedicated to my two beautiful granddaughters, Addison and Ella. Every time I visit with them, we always read books and go for walks together. We see so many wonderful things, flowers, trees, clouds, birds and planes. So many beautiful things to view, learn, and talk about.
67) Me in the Middle
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One day Isabel finds a box in her mother's closet and, inside, a photograph of a girl dressed in old-fashioned clothes. Ten-year-old Bel is enchanted to discover that the girl is her great-grandmother Beatrice, her Bisa Bea, and that she and her great-grandmother look very much alike. Bel convinces her mother to let her borrow the treasured photo promising to look after it carefully. To her dismay, by the time she returns home from school, the picture...
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Grandfather Knows. about the Sun, is an exciting opportunity to expand on your childs curiosity about the world around them in an entertaining way. The value of knowledge gained and shared by older family members, such as Grandfather, shows the respect children should have and reflect as they grow. The inspiration and main character, Grandfather, was based on John Noga, a great story teller to his grandchildren who loved and admired him. His granddaughter,...
69) Avram's Gift
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The author's story behind the story: It all started with a smile. Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) had arrived and my great-uncle Morris had come over for lunch to celebrate. In addition to talking and eating, I hoped that this would also be a day for reminiscing, for I'd always wanted to know about the man in the portrait that had been hanging in the hallway for years. "Who was that man and what was he like?" I asked as my great-uncle brought...
70) Grandfathers
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Text and photographs present grandfathers and how they interact with their families.
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What happens if you're not perfect? When the Tree was small, a windstorm almost ended her life. Although rescued, she was badly scarred, marking her for removal. When 10yearold Dolores was small, she was left in a foreign orphanage. Even after her father found her, he abandoned her with her grandparents, who are too old to take care of her. Scar and Lolo live precariously in a Canyon Garden, inhabited by magical creatures: some friend, some foe. When...
72) Grandma's Love
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Take a trip with Addie down memory lane to capture a glimpse of frequent weekend stays with one of the family's unsung heroines in Grandma's Love.
Through the eyes of her granddaughter Addie, observe the beauty and inhale the sweet aroma of this vital relationship in this close-knit family unit and the powerful influence of a grandmother's love.
As you read this story with your little ones, may it not only spawn fond memories from your own childhood...
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The Abuelo Books were written as a companion book to The Yaya Books. Just as The Yaya Books describes the loving relationship that the little boy shares with his grandmother, The Abuelo Books shows the love and respect that the little boy also shares with his grandfather.
In Book 1, "My Abuelo's Country Store," the readers are given a glimpse of the way of life of the little boy's grandfather as the little boy tells about how he helps his grandfather...
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IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Elmer is on his way to visit his Grandpa Eldo. He has great fun reminding Eldo of all the things they used to do together, but is Eldo quite as forgetful as Elmer thinks? He may be old but he is an elephant, after all, and elephants never forget. Do they?
77) Way Back When
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When Ethan has to interview his grandfather for a school project, he learns what kinds of things children did for fun in the past. As his grandfather recounts what sports, games, and books he liked as a child, Ethan finds out what sort of things are similar and different between childhood of today and childhood of years past. Even though many things are different today, such as television and computers, Ethan learns that there are many things that...
78) In the Buff
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After a big fight with his wife, Rupert's grandfather, known to everyone as Gump, packs up and moves into Gentle Breezes Nudist Community for Active Seniors.
Thirteen-year-old Rupert is sent in to talk some sense into him. While he's there, Rupert accidentally lets Gump's dog, Wayne, escape. Gump is frantic. Wayne is blind and tends to panic. Rupert and his grandfather set out to search the woods, and soon they are lost too. Aside from an apron,...
79) Runaway and Hide
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Aria has just turned four years old. She loves to play even more now. "Is that possible, playing more?" She is always making funny faces. Everyday Aria plays hide & seek, but … it is not the planned game. Aria puts Mommy & Grammy to the chase. The longest arms get to reach for her. Aria is a "tease", she always has been a "tease." And, at a contrast, "Is this when arguing begins?" The story will take you to Aria's hiding places all around the house...
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Lucy and her grandfather are the focus of this poignant and warm story that teaches that wrinkles are badges of happiness rather than signs of age. Lucy asks Granddad, "Why doesn't your skin fit you? It's all crinkly," to which he replies, "Those crinkles are called wrinkles," each of which he got when he smiled especially big. As Lucy traces Granddad's joy-filled face, he describes his memories and shares the cause of each line-his wedding day, Lucy's...
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