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2121) El nacimiento del bejuco
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Español
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Story about the origin of the bejuco vine, in which a grandmother defeats an evil sorcerer.
2122) I love my grandma
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English
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Grandma Bear plays hide-and-seek with Little Bear.
2123) Kuszenie Gracie
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Polish
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"Gracie Burton mieszka w spokojnym Devon. Nieczęsto opuszczała tę miejscowość w ciągu ostatnich czterdziestu lat. Jej córka Carina prowadzi świetnie prosperujący interes w Londynie. Nie ma czasu dla swojej 17-letniej córki Anastazji, więc wysłała ją do szkoły z internatem. Jeszcze mniej czasu ma dla starzejącej się matki. Trzy kobiety niewiele o sobie wiedzą. Kiedy Gracie dostrzega reklamę tygodniowego kursu gotowania, prowadzonego...
2124) Lazos de sangre
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"Milly, Aubrey, and Jonah Story are cousins, but they barely know each another, and they've never even met their grandmother. Rich and reclusive, she disinherited their parents before they were born. So when they each receive a letter inviting them to work at her island resort for the summer, they're surprised... and curious. Their parents are all clear on one point--not going is not an option. This could be the opportunity to get back into Grandmother's...
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"Tomorrow is the science fair at school and Femi has built his very own wind machine. But there is a problem... it doesn't always work. This makes Femi feel anxious. What if the wind machine won't work on the day? What if his teacher doesn't like it? With Grandma's reassurance and special calming techniques, how will Femi and his wind machine do at the science fair?"--
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Amy's diary volume 2
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English
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"Fourteen year-old Amy Von Brandt's life is upside down. In order to forget Nicolas who has just broken-up with her, her bad grades and the possible devilish fiancé of her mother slash principal, she escapes to Grandma Von Brandts farm. Plenty of Mother Nature and peace and quiet are on the agenda but listening to chirping sparrows, counting ants, observing the mating dance of earthworms ... gets old (and depressing) real fast! But not even Amy can...
2128) Alice by accident
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Nine-year-old Alice must write about herself for an assignment in her London school, and in doing so, she sorts out her feelings about her somewhat prickly single mother, the father she has never met, her flamboyant paternal grandmother, and the rest of her sometimes confusing life.
2129) The falling flowers
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Mayumie and her grandmother take a trip into Tokyo to see a surprise even more fun than the zoo and more beautiful than the shrine: cherry blossoms flowering in the heart of the city.
2132) Hilos de colores
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Cuando la abuela le regaló su historia, llena de colores y cosida con las agujas del corazón, la niña comprendió que algunas veces la memoria puede ser tan frágil como los hilos que se lleva el viento..., que las experiencias de la vida se entretejen para formar lo que cada uno es, y que cuando casi todo se olvida, la mejor medicina son los besos.
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Maryse Condé has pieced together the life of her maternal grandmother to create a moving and profound novel. The author's personal journey of discovery reveals Victoire, her white-skinned mestiza grandmother who worked as a cook for the Walbergs, a family of white Creoles in the French Antilles--Dust jacket.
2134) The big bike race
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Ernest Peterson's hopes of winning the Washington, D.C., Citywide Cup bicycle race are shattered when his grandmother gives him a huge, clunky, yellow bike for his tenth birthday.
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Mysteries in time volume 10
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English
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Felicia's grandmother tells her the story of a twelve-year-old girl named Lily, who witnessed a mysterious kidnapping one night in 1928 Harlem, New York.
2136) ¡Qué confusión!
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Isabel and Enrique are spending the day at Grandma's. They play with clay and markers, and then they go out to the garden to plant seeds and water the plants. They are now all covered with mud! Grandma decides to hose them. Now the three of them and the dog are soaking wet! This very entertaining story written in verse will motivate kids to talk about their favorite pastimes and to reflect upon their relationship with their grandparents. (Authentic...
2137) Caperucita roja
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Español
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A version of Little Red Riding Hood told in Spanish verse.
2138) Un anno con Nonna Dowdel
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In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
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In Red riding hood, a little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest on her way to visit her grandmother.
In Cinderella, in her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect, Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper.
In Goldilocks and the three bears, three bears return home from a walk to find a little girl asleep in baby bear's bed.
In The three little pigs, one of three brother pigs survives a wolf's attacks by using...
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