Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
  • A LITTLE LOVE - Virginia Hamilton
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Call Me Consuelo by Ofelia Dumas Lachtman
  • Chambers
  • Checking on the Moon by Jenny Davis
  • Child of the Owl by Laurence Yep
  • Dancing on the Edge, by Han Nolan
  • Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
  • Freewill  - Chris Lynch
  • 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.
  • Granny the Pag by Ninda Bawden
  • 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.
  • Homecoming - Cynthia Voigt
  • 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.
  • Loose Threads by Laurie Ann Grover
  • Marisol and Magdalena: The Sound of Our Sisterhood by Veronica
  • 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.
  • No Lack of Lonesome by Albino Gonzales
  • 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.
  • Robert Lives with his Grandparents.   Hickman, Martha Whitmore. Robert is embarrassed to admit to his classmates that he has lived with his grandparents ever since his parents' divorce.
  • Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer
  • Sammy Keyes series (Sammy Keyes and the Curse of Mustache Mary, Sammy Keyes and the Sisters of Mercy, etc.) by Wendelin Van Draanen.
  • STAND TALL by Joan Bauer
  • Strays Like Us by Richard Peck
  • The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter
  • 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.
  • The same stuff as stars.  Katherine Paterson. When Angel's self-absorbed mother leaves her and her younger brother with their poor great-grandmother, the eleven-year-old girl worries not only about her mother and brother, her imprisoned father, the frail old woman, but also about a mysterious man who begins sharing with her the wonder of the stars.
  • TONING THE SWEEP by Angela Johnson
  • Walk Two Moons. Creech, Sharon  After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route.  Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
  • 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.
  • When I was young in the mountains.   Rylant, Cynthia Reminiscences of the pleasures of life in the mountains as a child.
  • Woman Soldier/La Soldadera by Irene Beltran Hernandez
  • WORDS OF STONE - Kevin Henkes
  • Yellow Raft in Blue Water_ by Michael Dorris
  • Zazoo by Richard Mosher


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