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201) A scatter of light
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The summer of 2013 in the Bay is a momentous one for eighteen-year-old Aria Tang West, for the working-class queer community she finds herself in, and for her artist grandmother.
Aria Tang West was looking forward to a summer on Martha's Vineyard with her best friends--one last round of sand and sun before college. But after a graduation party goes wrong, Aria's parents exile her to California to stay with her grandmother, artist Joan West. Aria...
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Hubble bubble volume 2
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114 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Can you keep a secret? Pandora's granny is a witch! She causes magical mayhem wherever she goes. In these stories, she brings comic chaos to a televised baking competition, delightful disaster to a school fair, and tons of trouble to a stately home! But she makes everything right in the end, with a bit of help from Pandora. Everyone loves Granny, especially her long-suffering granddaughter!
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273 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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"In Kenny Wright's active imagination he's a world famous superhero, but in the real world he's a sixth grade "Grandma's Boy" whose struggles to fit in at his Washington D.C. inner city school will put his grades and family loyalty to the test."--
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"Mia's abuela has left her sunny house with parrots and palm trees to live with Mia and her parents in the city. The night she arrives, Mia tries to share her favorite book with Abuela before they go to sleep and discovers that Abuela can't read the words inside. So while they cook, Mia helps Abuela learn English ("Dough. Masa"), and Mia learns some Spanish too, but it's still hard for Abuela to learn the words she needs to tell Mia all her stories....
205) La casita azul
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151 pages ; 20 cm
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Cintia, una muchacha de 12 años, va a menudo a una casa azul para alejarse de su padre, un hombre violento. Esa casa es mágica. Una vez al año, la casa se vuelve azul hasta el día siguiente, cuando vuelve a ser blanca.
In the forgotten little town of Azul in rural Argentina, there is a magical house. No one has lived there for almost as long as anyone can remember. But once a year, at midnight, the house turns blue, and twenty-four hours later...
206) ¿Qué serás?
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 27 cm
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"Una niña sueña con interminables posibilidades, despertando sentimientos de maravilla, curiosidad, y crecimiento. Con la amorosa guía de su abuela, se lanza a un camino de descubrimiento y aprende que su potencial no tiene límites."--
"What will you be when you grow up? A young girl dreams about all the endless possibilities, sparking a sense of wonder, curiosity, and growth. With her abuela's loving guidance, she learns her potential is limitless"--Provided...
207) Candidly Cline
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309 pages ; 22 cm
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Cline Alden's grandmother says that music is in the family's blood, but Cline's mother is dead-set against her daughter's dreams of becoming a country music singer; Cline is determined to find the money to attend a Young Singer-Songwriter Workshop in Lexington (not too far from her Paris, Kentucky home), so now she has a lot on her mind--she is hiding things from her mother, she is losing her beloved grandmother to Alzheimer's, and she has begun to...
208) Abuelita and me
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"In this poignant, empowering picture book debut, a girl and her beloved abuelita lean on each other as they contend with racism while running errands in the city. Spending time at home with Abuelita means pancakes, puddle-jumping, and nail-painting. But venturing out into the city is not always as fun. On the bus and at the grocery store, people are impatient and suspicious--sometimes they even yell. Sad, angry, and scared, the story's young narrator...
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Seventeen-year-old June feels she is nothing without her best friend, Jess, but everything changes after she is expelled and must attend a Virginia boarding school where her grandmother teaches.
At the end of her first semester of junior year June is expelled for drinking at a school dance. Her parents send her to Virginia to attend the all-girls boarding school where her grandmother teaches. Miles away from home, her life, and most importantly her...
210) Bayou magic
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Visiting her grandmother in the Louisiana bayou, ten-year-old Maddy begins to realize that she may be the only sibling to carry on the gift of her family's magical legacy.
212) Cloud hopper
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335 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Fourteen-year-old Sophie and her best friends Wyatt and K set out to help when a silent, mysterious girl in a homemade hot air balloon lands in rural Gilbertine.
When a girl in a homemade hot air balloon falls out of the sky in rural Gilbertine, there are questions: Who is this girl, where exactly did she come from, why won't she talk, and what has she risked to live in a country that does not seem to want her? Sophie, Wyatt, and K-- three misfit...
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A touching tale of a grandmother and her granddaughter exploring and cherishing the natural world.
Words, the woods, and the world illuminate this quest to save the most important pieces of our language-by saving the very things they stand for.
When Mimi finds out her favorite words-simple words, like apricot, blackberry, buttercup-are disappearing from the English language, she elects her granddaughter Brook as their Keeper. And did you know? The...
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25 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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A little girl provides instructions for properly babysitting one's grandmother, such as taking trips to the park and singing duets.
"Cuando cuidas a la abuela, si tienes suerte pasas la noche en su casa! Con los acertados consejos de este cuento, te garantizo que en muy poco tiempo serás un experto cuidaabuelas. Aqui aprenderas cómo distraer a tu abuela; que cosas puedes hacer con ella en el parque, donde puede dormir y qué hacer una vez estáis...
216) This is just a test
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243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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In 1983 seventh-grader David Da-Wei Horowitz has a lot to worry about -- his bar mitzvah is coming soon, his Jewish and Chinese grandmothers argue about everything, his teammates for the upcoming trivia contest, Scott and Hector, do not like each other, he is beginning to notice girls, and Scott has persuaded him to begin digging a fallout shelter just in case the Cold War heats up.
217) Había una vez una
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23 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Grandma Antolina finds a key and begins a long journey into the country, up and down a mountain, and so on, until she finds the door it opens, where her grandchildren await.
219) The remembering day
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Long ago in what would come to be called Mexico, as Mama Alma and her granddaughter, Bella, recall happy times while walking in the garden they have tended together since Bella was a baby, Mama Alma asks that after she is gone her family remember her on one special day each year. Includes facts about The Remembering Day, El dia de los muertos.
220) Mango, Abuela y yo
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La abuela de Mia viene a vivir con Mia y sus padres. Cuando Mia eomparte con ella su cuento favorito a la hora de dormir, descubre que la abuela no entiende inglés. Mia la ayuda con el inglés y a la vez ella aprende algunas palabras en español. Pero la abuela no conoce suficientes palabras en inglés para compartir las historias de familia con su nieta. Un dia, Mia ve un loro en una tienda de mascotas y descubre la manera de ayudar a su abuela....
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