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2) Unbecoming
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Monroe Blackwell, who is spending the summer at her grandmother's Louisiana bed-and-breakfast, meets Nathan Everets, who has a court-appointed job there, they share, and begin to recover from, their respective feelings of loss and guilt.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Promposals at Deacon Locke's high school are in full swing, but when Deacon decides he'd like to take his grandmother to prom, despite the social fallout, he fears he's squandered his chances when he unexpectedly meets Soraya.
5) Hit the road
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Brittany acts as chauffeur for her grandmother and three other eighty-plus-year-old women going to what is supposedly their college reunion, on a long drive that involves lies, theft, and kidnappings.
6) Sisterland
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When Hilly's grandmother becomes ill with Alzheimer's disease, her family is turned upside down by revelations from her life during World War II.
Author
Publisher
J. Lorimer
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Penny and her friends have always taunted an eccentric old gypsy whom they call the Queen of Sheba. When a teacher assigns a history project, Penny interviews her grandmother, who tells her about her youth and about the Queen of Sheba, whom she once knew. When Penny's grandmother has a heart attack and dies, the woman comes to pay her respects.
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