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1) Throwback
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When Corey learns that he has the ability to save lives while time traveling, he is determined to go back in time to save his grandmother who died on September 11, 2001.
5) The lost ryū
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Running out of time to make his grandfather smile once again before it's too late, Kohei searches for a ryk--a dragon of legend--in this multigenerational story about the lengths to which people will go to protect those they love.
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Set in the 1980s, this item is about a 12 year boy "Jack" and his relationship with his Grandpa. Grandpa's memory is slipping. He often mistakes Jack for his WWII squadron leader. Jack's parents have sent Grandpa to a boring rest home, he wants to escape. Will Jack help him?
12) Tofu takes time
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"Lin makes tofu with her grandma and discovers that patience brings a whole universe together in a simple dish made by a modern Chinese American family"--
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It is 1969 in Spanish Harlem, and fourteen-year-old Evelyn Serrano is trying hard to break free from her conservative Puerto Rican surroundings, but when her activist grandmother comes to stay and the neighborhood protests start, things get a lot more complicated--and dangerous.
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"As young Awâsis searches for the ingredients to make Kohkum's world-famous bannock recipe, [she runs] into a variety of other-than-human relatives that help [her] along in [her] journey. Includes a pronunciation guide and Kohkum's ... bannock recipe at the back of the book"--
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"Once, in a tiny village in India, there was a young boy who loved to paint. He lived with his grandfather, who taught him to paint with his fingers, to make paints from marigolds and brushes made from jasmine flowers. Sometimes, the village children would watch them painting together, and the boy's grandfather would invite them to join in. They didn't have much, but they had each other. After his grandfather dies, the boy notices a little box wrapped...
17) Sugar and snails
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Featuring a grandfather, and his grandson and granddaughter, this picture book provides a twist to a classic rhyme, "sugar and spice and everything nice."
18) The bird feeder
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"A beloved grandma, in the last stages of life, bonds with her young grandchild over birds as they spend all the time they can together, creating a love that never wavers.
19) The red tin box
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On her eighth birthday Maude buries a red tin box with some special treasures at the foot of a flowering dogwood tree and makes a promise to herself--and many years later she and her granddaughter travel to her childhood home to dig it up and pass it on.
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