Timely Topics for Kids
Intergenerational Stories
The Boy on Cinnamon Street
by Phoebe Stone
ISBN: 9780545215121
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Since a tragedy she cannot remember, thirteen-year-old Louise has changed her name, given up gymnastics, moved in with her grandparents, and locked her feelings inside but through her friends Reni and Hen and notes from a secret admirer she begins to find herself again.
Grandpa Green
by Lane Smith
ISBN: 9781596436077
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From the creator of the national bestseller It's a Book comes a timeless story of family history, legacy, and love. Grandpa Green wasn't always a gardener. He was a farmboy and a kid with chickenpox and a soldier and, most of all, an artist. In this captivating new picture book, readers follow Grandpa Green's great-grandson into a garden he created, a fantastic world where memories are handed down in the fanciful shapes of topiary trees and imagination recreates things forgotten. In his most enigmatic and beautiful work to date, Lane Smith explores aging, memory, and the bonds of family history and love; by turns touching and whimsical, it's a stunning picture book that parents and grandparents will be sharing with children for years to come. Grandpa Green is a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Picture Books title for 2011.
How Tia Lola Ended Up Starting Over
by Julia Alvarez
ISBN: 9780375869143
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Welcome to Tia Lola's bed and breakfast! With the help of her niece and nephew and the three Sword Sisters, Tía Lola is opening the doors of Colonel Charlebois' grand old Vermont house to visitors from all over. But Tía Lola and the children soon realize that running a B & B isn't as easy they had initially thought--especially when it appears that someone is out to sabotage them! Will Tía Lola and the kids discover who's behind the plot to make their B & B fail? And will Tía Lola's family and friends be able to plan her a surprise birthday party in her own B & B without her finding out?
Love Mouserella
by David Ezra Stein
ISBN: 9780399254109
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Missing her grandmother, a young mouse writes a letter in which she imparts enthusiastic descriptions of her current adventures, including the discovery of a cat whisker at the zoo and the day she taught her pet ladybug how to fetch. By the Caldecott Honor-winning author of Interrupting Chicken.
The Princess of Borscht
by Linda Schubert ILT by Bonnie Christensen
ISBN: 9781596435155
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Ruthie's grandmother, who is in the hospital with pneumonia, says she needs homemade borscht by five o'clock and young Ruthie, with the help of her neighbors, tries to make some even without the secret recipe.
Same Sun Here
by Silas House
ISBN: 9780763656843
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A twelve-year-old Indian immigrant in New York City and a Kentucky coal miner's son become pen pals, and eventually best friends, through a series of revealing letters exploring such topics as environmental activism, immigration, and racism.
When Grandmama Sings
by Margaree King Mitchell, ILT by James E. Ransome
ISBN: 9780688175634
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An eight-year-old girl accompanies her grandmother on a singing tour of the segregated South, both of them knowing that Grandmama's songs have the power to bring people together.
