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Author
Publisher
Lectorum
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
The author describes Christmas at his grandmother's apartment in Spanish Harlem the year she introduced him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Diego Velazquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja, which has had a profound and lasting effect on him.
Overview: This prequel to Eric Velasquez's biographical picture book, Grandma's Records, is the story of a Christmas holiday that young Eric spends with his grandmother. After they prepare their traditional...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After her grandmother, a marvelous storyteller, dies, fourth-grader Trixy, accompanied by her friend Raymond, runs away to learn about her grandmother's mysterious past.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espaǫl
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
Publisher Annotation: Today is Corina's birthday, and she's excited to wear the biggest crown with the most beautiful flowers picked from her abuela's garden. Each flower tells a special story about all the ways Corina is rooted in the family she loves. With elegant and eye-catching illustrations from award-winning artist Elisa Chavarri, this charming story shares a beloved family tradition through one girl's journey of self-discovery as she learns...
424) Shadow spell
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"With the legends and lore of Ireland running through his blood, falconer Connor O'Dwyer is proud to call County Mayo home. It's where his sister, Branna, lives and works, where his cousin, Iona, has found true love, and where his childhood friends form a circle that can't be broken ... A circle that is about to be stretched out of shape--by a long-awaited kiss. Meara Quinn is Branna's best friend, a sister in all but blood. Her and Connor's paths...
425) Blood magick
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"County Mayo is rich in the traditions of Ireland, legends that Branna O'Dwyer fully embraces in her life and in her work as the proprietor of The Dark Witch shop, which carries soaps, lotions, and candles for tourists, made with Branna's special touch. Branna's strength and selflessness hold together a close circle of friends and family--along with their horses and hawks and her beloved hound. But there's a single missing link in the chain of her...
426) Flowers in the attic
Author
Series
Dollanganger family series volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
©1979
Language
English
Description
Chris, Cathy, and the twins are to be kept hidden until their grandfather dies so that their mother will receive a sizeable inheritance, however, years pass and terrifying things occur as the four children grow up in their one room prison.
This is the extraordinary novel that has captured millions in its spell!
All across America-- and around the world millions of readers have been captivated by this strange, dark, terrifying tole of passion and...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1911, when orphaned ten-year-old Inge comes to live with her stern grandmother in a remote island village in Bornholm, Denmark, she ends up changing the climate of the town, bringing joy and laughter to her grandmother's life and finding a new family for herself to help assuage her grief over losing her mother.
428) Wild Rose's weaving
Author
Publisher
Tanglewood
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
While her grandmother weaves a beautiful rug, Rose plays in a storm, and both find joy in the beauty that surrounds them.
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When a shipwreck surfaces, old secrets are sure to follow. Or so goes the lore in Ivy Neale's hometown of Nags Head, North Carolina. When Ivy inherits her family's beachfront cottage upon her grandmother's death, she knows returning to Nags Head means facing the best friend and the boyfriend who betrayed her years ago. But then a winter gale uncovers the shipwreck of local legend--and Ivy soon begins to stumble across more skeletons in the closet...
Author
Series
Lucia the luchadora volume 2
Publisher
POW!
Pub. Date
©2018
Language
English
Description
Lucía's little sister Gemma wants to be a luchadora like her big sister, but she is more bumble and splat than pizzazz and seems to find trouble wherever she goes. When Gemma makes a ginormous hole in Lucía's mask, her little sister seems to get away with everything. But Lucía's grandmother, Abu, has an idea: a trip to the mercado to get Gemma her very own lucha libre mask. There are so many masks to choose from, and Lucía cant resist trying on...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"A curmudgeonly but charming old woman, her estranged grandson, and a colony of penguins proves it's never too late to be the person you want to be in this rich, heartwarming story from the acclaimed author of Ellie and the Harpmaker. Eighty-five-year-old Veronica McCreedy is estranged from her family and wants to find a worthwhile cause to leave her fortune to. When she sees a documentary about penguins being studied in Antarctica, she tells the...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
For two women generations apart, going home will change their lives. Four years into her marriage, Jenna is blindsided when her husband asks for a divorce. With time on her hands and her life in flux, she agrees to accompany her eccentric grandmother Evelyn on a road trip to the seaside Massachusetts town where much of their family history was shaped. When they hit the road, Evelyn spins the tale of the star-crossed teenage romance that captured her...
434) The memory keeper
Author
Publisher
Harpeth Road Press
Pub. Date
©2021
Language
English
Description
Hannah Townsend's life is just as she's always wanted it to be. She has the perfect job at a New York magazine, a small but elegant apartment in the upper west side, and an incredibly successful beau named Miles Monahan. This year, for her thirty-fifth birthday, she's leaving the icy city sludge for sunshine! She's got tickets for two to Barbados, and she's all packed and meeting Miles at the airport for a week of cocktails, sandy beaches, and the...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A mother in Chicago tells her daughter how Grandma used to make a special surprise on the freezing cold winter mornings in Belarus--so special that it seemed to bring spring with it. Includes a recipe for cheese blintzes.
436) Signed, Skye Harper
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In 1972, while her idol, Mark Spitz, is in Germany competing in the Olympics, fifteen-year-old Winston, her Nanny, and her crush, Steve, head to Las Vegas in Steve's parents' motorhome to reconnect with Winston's mother, who left ten years before to become a star.
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