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A remarkable debut that has been called a hybrid of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Myla Goldberg's Bee Season, The Center of Everything is the fictional story of 10-year-old math prodigy Evelyn Bucknow. Living in Kansas with her single mother and deeply religious grandmother, Evelyn believes she is destined to marry Travis, the boy next door. But as she grows up, she experiences the heartbreak of a love not meant to be.
2) Homecoming
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Called home to care for her grandmother after a fall, Jess, a journalist, discovers a book chronicling the police investigation into an old unsolved murder that has a shocking connection to her family.
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After discovering that she was abandoned by her birthmother in 1913, Nell embarks on a life-long quest to discover her true identity. After her death, her granddaughter, Cassandra, takes up the search. Soon, Cassandra finds herself at Blackhurst Manor, investigating the doomed history of the Mountrachet family.
10) Valentine
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1995
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While waiting for her mother to come home from work on Valentine's Day, Heather helps her grandmother rescue a newborn lamb and bake a special cooky.
11) Schooled
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Homeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched television, tasted a pizza, or even heard of a wedgie, but when his grandmother lands in the hospital, Cap is forced to move in with a guidance counselor and attend the local middle school. While Cap knows a lot about tie-dyeing and Zen Buddhism, no education could prepare him for the politics of public school.
12) Knit the season
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Spanning the season from Thanksgiving through New Year's Eve, Knit the Season follows the now college-aged Dakota Walker as she takes a much needed break to visit her Gran in Scotland for the holidays. Dakota is at a crossroads in her life, as everything seems to be changing all at once. While she is working hard to build her future career, the members of her family and her "extended family"—the Friday Night Knitting Club—are all following
...15) Off we go!
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c2000
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One by one, baby woodland creatures leave home to visit their grandmothers in this rhyming text.
17) Yucky worms
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2010, c2009
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While helping Grandma in the garden, a child learns about the important role of the earthworm in helping plants grow.
19) Abuela
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c1991
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While riding on a bus with her grandmother, a little girl imagines that they are carried up into the sky and fly over the sights of New York City.
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