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241) An acceptable time
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Polly's stay with her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious strangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.
242) Curveball
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While spending the summer with his extended family in New Jersey, Derek finds a team he can play baseball with, meets new friends he admires, and works hard mowing lawns with his grandfather to earn money to take his best friend Dave to a Yankees game. However, when one of Derek's new friends tries to convince him to do something that might get him into trouble, Derek must reconsider who his role models are.
243) A bird will soar
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After a tornado, Axel, who loves birds, finds an injured eaglet, and helps to rescue it--and also helps to resolve the problems in his broken family, and draw his father back home.
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Dancing with Granddad is s picture book designed to be a teaching tool adults can use to have a conversation with a child about Alzheimer's disease. The book takes young readers on the journey of learning in an age-appropriate way that seven-year-old Nia's Granddad has Alzheimer's and will need to move to a new home. They also learn that while Nia's Granddad is changing, the love they have between them never will
246) Bitty Baby the brave
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A young girl and her Bitty Baby visit the girl's grandparents where they bravely make up a story to account for the noise coming from the basement where they are playing. Includes tips for parents.
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In 1960s Marrakech, a young girl travels to meet her estranged grandmother. Vicky Baudin steps on to the train through Morocco looking for the truth about the woman who gave her father up for adoption decades before. Clemence Petier lives in a kasbah on the edge of the Atlas Mountains, her background shrouded in mystery. But the past holds secrets that threaten them both. A face from Clemence's childhood threatens to expose everything she has built...
249) Missing in action
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While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.
250) Let him go
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Following the loss of their son, retired sheriff George Blackledge and his wife Margaret leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson. When they discover that he is in the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas, George and Margaret must fight for the survival of their family.
252) Un día en el museo
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"It's a surprise visit! Ana & Andrew are excited when Grandma comes to visit. While she is there, the family tours the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and learns about important African American achievements"--
"¡Es una visita sorpresa! Ana & Andrew están emocionados cuando Abuela viene a visitar. Mietras ella está allí, la familia hace una visita guiada del Museo Nacional de Historia y Cultura Afroamericana...
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When Hannah Montana shows signs of forgetting her roots as Miley Stewart, her father Robbie Ray puts his foot down. Miley has always strived to live a relatively normal teenage life, but when late stage entrances, exclusive shopping trips that end in brawling catfights, and ditching friends and family in favor of Hannah appearances become commonplace, Robbie Ray gives her a dose of hometown reality at her grandma's in Crowley Corners, Tenn.
256) American woman
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Set in rural Pennsylvania, Deb Callahan's life is changed forever when her teenage daughter mysteriously disappears. Deb is left to raise her young grandson and navigates the trials and tribulations of subsequent years, until a long-awaited discovery of the truth is revealed.
257) It's Hanukkah time!
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Preschoolers invite their grandparents to a Hanukkah party and celebrate by lighting the menorah, playing dreidel, making sufganiyot, and telling the story of the Maccabees. Includes facts about Hanukkah and a recipe for sufganiyot.
258) A grand day
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"Celebrates the special bond between grandparents and their grandchildren."--
260) When Papa snores
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A child describes the increasing intensity of his grandparents' snores--that annoy some but also provide a sense of security.