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2) Heidi
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"Orphaned Heidi is sent to live with her grumpy grandfather in the Alps, but soon grows to love the mountains. When she is taken to Frankfurt, her homesickness and a new friendship with a disabled girl called Clara lead to an extraordinary turn of events"--
3) Tom
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Once again Tomie dePaola draws upon his childhood, this time telling about his Irish grandfather, who says to him, "We're named after each other, Tommy. That's why I want to you to call me Tom, instead of Grandpa." They share a lot of silly times, which dePaola recounts in this charming book.
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Young Cedric is quite happy living with his widowed mother in New York and visiting with his best friend. The Cedric learns that he is Lord Fauntleroy and will one day become an Earl. But in order to claim his title, he will have to leave behind everything he knows to live with his hard-hearted grandfather in England. Can Cedric win over his grandfather? And is he the real Lord Fauntleroy?
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Charlie and Mouse volume 2
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Brothers Charlie and Mouse enjoy a special visit from Grumpy.
6) Stone Fox
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Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters.
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Lotterys volume 1
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2017.
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Nine-year-old Sumac Lottery is happily living with four parents (one lesbian couple and one gay couple), six siblings from multicultural backgrounds, and five rescue pets. But when Grandpa Grumps, who Sumac has never met because he's been estranged from the family, comes to live with them, his disapproving attitude toward the life Sumac loves is hard to take.
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Dog Man volume 9
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The Supa Buddies bamboozled the baddies, but all's not right in the world. Dog Man has a new problem to pound, and he's going to need his entire pack to help him. Will he go barking up the wrong tree? Could a cat-headed cop replace Dog Man?
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Miss Peregrine volume 1
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A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of peculiar photographs. A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its decaying bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that Miss Peregrine's children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They...
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Fourteenth goldfish volume 1
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Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.
12) The outside dog
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Marisol and her grandfather find a skinny brown mutt, and Marisol persuades Grandfather to feed the dog. Can she convince him to give this outside dog a home?
13) Heartbeat
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Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and running partner) becomes distant.
15) Charlie's raven
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Charlie Carlisle's grandfather is ill. Charlie's friend, Singing Bird, a Teton Sioux, tells him that ravens have curing powers, so Charlie steals a baby bird from its nest. Granddad, a retired naturalist, encourages Charlie to record his observations of the bird and study the effect it has on humans. Charlie just hopes that the raven will make Granddad well.
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Boxcar children volume 7
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The Boxcar Children are spending the summer in an enormous New England farmhouse and the old woodshed holds a surprising secret that dates from the Revolutionary War.
19) On Noah's ark
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[2003]
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Noah's granddaughter helps him bring the animals onto the ark, calm them down, and get them to sleep.
20) Stand tall
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Tree, a six-foot-three-inch twelve-year-old, copes with his parents' recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school.