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Tag Archives: grandparents
Amah Faraway by Margaret Chiu Greanias. Illustrated by Tracy Subisak
A heartwarming and beautifully painted picture book about a girl building a real relationship with her grandmother when she and her mother travel to Taiwan. Continue reading
Posted in Books, picture books, Realistic, Reviews
Tagged Asian-American, grandparents, Margaret Chiu Greanias, picture books, Taiwan, Tracy Subisak, travel
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Stories, Stars, and Grandparents: When You Trap a Tiger and the Magic in Changing Your Stars
I love it when happy accidents like this happen – two very different books with similar themes popping up back-to-back in my TBR. Here we have two stories involving stories, stars, and close grandparent-grandchild relationships. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Fantasy, Middle Grade, Print, Reviews
Tagged dancing, grandparents, Harlem, mythology, tigers, time travel, youth fantasy
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Sputnik’s Guide to Life on Earth
Back to Cybils-nominated books with a whimsical adventure with an alien, from the author of the updated Chitty Chitty Bang Bang books. Sputnik’s Guide to Life on Earth by Frank Cottrell Boyce. Harper Collins Children’s 2017. Prez Mellows lives his … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Reviews
Tagged aliens, foster children, grandparents, memory loss, Scotland, youth science fiction
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