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Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Every morning is beautiful when Noah visits his Grandparents. When Grandpa and Noah wake up, they take off singing and hardly stop: walking the dog, splashing through puddles, and eating French toast with cinnamon. But one summer Grandpa seems to have forgotten how to do the things they love. Does he even know who Noah is? Grandma steps in energetically, filling in as best she can. But it is Noah who finds the way back to something he can share with...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Amanda maintains a pet cemetery in her backyard where she buries her dead pets, but when she and her friends prepare to bury a dead squirrel they find a grave with a doll in it, a discovery with links to a scary elderly neighbor.
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old David sneaks through the ventilation shafts in his London apartment building pulling pranks on his neighbors, which awakens the ghost of a boy with a grudge against the lonely, senile old man who lives upstairs.
147) Little Mamá forgets
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Although her Mexican-American grandmother now forgets many things, Luciana finds that she still remembers the things that are important to the two of them. Includes glossary of Spanish words used.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.
150) Valentine queen
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Kylie Jean's grandparents fiftieth wedding anniversary is on Valentine's Day, and the whole family is planning a surprise party--but Kylie also wants her class to spread valentine cheer to Oak Manor, the local assisted living facility.
151) The trap
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, seventeen-year-old Johnny Least-Weasel, who is better known for brains than brawn, worries about his missing grandfather, and the grandfather, Albert Least-Weasel, struggles to survive, caught in his own steel trap in the Alaskan winter.
152) Best friends forever
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Holly sees an old house at the end of the street, Carrie and Amy are sure that a witch lives there. But when Holly meets the "witch", she realizes that Annabel Crow is a wonderful old lady who appreciates Holly's friendship.
153) I'm right here
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Even as William's grandmother soothes him with the knowledge that his fears will lessen as he grows up, he reassures her that she need not fear losing the things she loves.
154) Cloud chaser
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emery spends the summer building a flying machine with a new neighbor, an old man named Leon.
155) The garden we share
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This inspring picture book celebrates the friendship between a young girl and an elderly woman as they plant seeds in a community garden alongside friends and neighbors, waiting for the seeds to flower. By mid-summer, the friends welcome a rainbow of color in the garden and picnics in the sun. At harvest, the young girl's elderly friend is bed-ridden, but jubilant as they share baskets with red tomatoes and snap peas amid the sweet smell of lavender....
156) Hanukkah bear
Author
Language
English
Description
On the first night of Hanukkah, Old Bear wanders into Bubba Brayna's house and receives a delicious helping of potato latkes when she mistakes him for the rabbi.
157) Grow up!
Author
Series
Adventures of Daniel Boom volume 4
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Doctor Docter's Energy Replenerator turns Daniel (aka Loud Boy) and his superhero friends into prune-eating, cane-wielding old people.
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