Carpe Diem
Sixteen-year-old Vassar Spore's detailed plans for the next twenty years of her life are derailed when her bohemian grandmother insists that she join her in Southeast Asia for the summer, but as she writes a novel about her experiences, Vassar discovers new possibilities.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: adventure and adventurers, grandmothers [X], artists, authorship, secrets [X], southeast asia, secrecy, life skills
Hattie On Her Way
In the late 1800s, eleven-year-old Hattie, still grieving over the death of her mother and lonely for her absent father, moves in with her grandmother in the city of Kingston, New York, to be educated and learn about polite society, and, while there, discovers the fate of her missing grandfather.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
subjects: grandmothers [X], city and town life, mental illness, secrets [X], conduct of life, kingston (n.y.)
Unbecoming
Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 38
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: grandmothers [X], brothers and sisters, mothers and daughters, family secrets, alzheimer's disease, england, families, family life, secrets [X], mother-daughter relationship, siblings
The Blackbird Girls
Publisher Annotation: On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 78
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: girls, friendship, chernobyl nuclear accident, chornobyl?, ukraine, 1986, secrecy, hate, toleration, secrets [X], historical fiction, chernobyl nuclear accident, chornobyle, ukraine, 1986, grandmothers [X], large print books
Into The Tall, Tall Grass
Yolanda sets out with family and friends to help her grandmother and discovers long-buried secrets about a family curse and the healing power of the magic surrounding her.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
The Memory Keeper
Twelve-year-old Lulu Rose Carter's memory improves greatly just as her beloved Gram becomes very forgetful, and Lulu begins to explore Gram's past in an effort to save her.
FIC
year:
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: memory, grandmothers [X], secrecy, families, alzheimer's disease, secrets [X], family life
Deadly Little Scandals
While spending a summer at the family lake house, eighteen-year-old Sawyer finally learns the full truth about her complicated family.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: identity (psychology), secrecy, mothers and daughters, grandmothers [X], families, southern states, identity, secrets [X], family life, southern states, mother-daughter relationship
Secrets Of The Casa Rosada
Sixteen-year-old Martha's life is transformed when her mother leaves her in Laredo, Texas, in 1990 with a grandmother she never knew, who is a revered healer, or curandera.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: grandmothers [X], healers, mexican americans, secrecy, blessing and cursing, families, secrets [X], family life, texas
Alguien Tiene Un Secreto
While true-crime aficionado Ellery and her twin brother are staying with their grandmother in a Vermont community known for murder, a new friend goes missing and Ellery may be next.
FIC
year:
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: homicide, missing persons, community life, siblings, twins, moving, grandmothers [X], secrecy, mystery fiction, spanish language, detective and mystery fiction, murder, brothers and sisters, moving, household, mystery and detective stories, secrets [X], spanish language materials, electronic books
A Touch Of Ruckus
Twelve-year-old Tennessee Lancaster, burdened by her ability to pry into folks' memories by touching their belongings and by her prideful family's secrets, finds solace in ghost hunting with her nonbinary crush inside a nearby forest in Howler's Hollow, but when the ghosts reveal that the forest's existence is threatened, Tennie must find the link between how they died and her own family's secrets.
FIC
year:
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: forests and forestry, secrecy, friendship, grandmothers [X], families, ghosts, secrets [X], family life, ghost stories
Lia And Beckett's Abracadabra
Seventeen-year-old Lia Sawyer teams up with Beckett--one of the charming Blackwell boys, the latest generation of a rival magic family--to win a stage magic contest and out-con the bad guys.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
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The Journey Of The Ancestors' Gifts
"The Nguyen kids are going on vacation! It's their first time in Vietnam and they are staying in Grandma N??i's childhood home, so they should be excited.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: vietnamese american families, vietnamese americans, grandmothers [X], secrecy, families, identity (psychology), secrets [X], family life, identity, vietnam
Abuelita's Secret
"A boy is living with his family while his father is away. He dreads the fir[s]t day at a new school because he has nothing special to share about himself.
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year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: