HIT: Living with grandparents

[Craig Seasholes <library@HAPPYMEDIUM.ORG>]

Living with Grandparent bibliography


        Walk Two Moons  Creech, Sharon  After her mother leaves home suddenly,
thirteen-year-old Sal and her gandparents take a car trip retracing her
mother’s route.  Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe,
whose mother also left.
        Georgia Music   Griffith, Helen V.      A little girl and her grandfather 
share
two different kinds of music, that of his mouth organ and that of the birds
and insects around his cabin.
        Robert Lives with his Grandparents      Hickman, Martha Whitmore        
Robert is
embarassed to admit to his classmates that he has lived with his
grandparents ever since his parents’ divorce.
        The Raft        LaMarche, Jim   Reluctant Nicky spends a wonderful summer 
with
Grandma who introduces him to the joy of rafting down the river near her
home and watching the animals along the banks.
        Benjie  Lexau, Joan M.  Benjie had to overcome his shyness before he could
make any progress in his search for Granny’s lost earring which was a
wedding present from Grandaddy.
        Benjie on his own       Lexau, Joan M.  When his grandmother becomes quite 
ill,
young Benjie discovers that the people in his big city neighborhood can be
friendly and helpful after all.
        Journey MacLachlan, Patricia    Left by their mother with their 
grandparents,
two children feel as if their past has been erased until Grandfather finds a
way to restore it to them.
        Missing May     Rylant, Cynthia After the death of the beloved aunt who has
raised her, twelve-year-old Sumer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia
trailer in search of the strength to go on living.
        When I was young in the mountains       Rylant, Cynthia Reminiscences of the
pleasures of life in the mountains as a child.
        What Daddy Did  Shusterman, Neal        A fourteen-year-old living with his
grandparents learns his father is to be released from prison after killing
his mother and feels apprehensive about renewing the relationship.  Based on
true events.
        Heidi   Spyri, Johanna  Older fiction: A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when 
she
must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to
go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
        Belle Prater's Boy      White, Ruth     When Woodrow’s mother suddenly 
disappears,
he moves to his grandparent’s home in a small Virginia town where he
befriends his cousin and together they find the strength to face the
terrible losses and fears in their lives.
        No Mirrors in My Nana’s House   Barnwell, Ysaye Growing up with grandmother
“Nana” meant seeing beauty everywhere, but especially “in my Nana’s eyes.”
Contains audio CD of song as performed by Sweet Honey in the Rock and as
reading by the author.

Craig Seasholes, Librarian
Happy Medium School
620 20th Ave S
Seattle, WA  98144
library@happymedium.org
www.happymedium.org/library/

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