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Heidi is the story of a five-year-old orphan girl who has to go live with her grandfather, a lonely and somewhat rude man, in the Swiss Alps. Little by little, Heidi will win the affection of her grandfather and all the inhabitants of the valley. Her life will become complicated when she has to return to the city with her aunt Dete. A book full of innocence, where human values and love for nature are highlighted. .

A Swiss orphan must leave her beloved grandfather and happy mountain top home to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

Following a family tradition, Grandpa gives Emilia a walnut and together they plant and care for it, but as her little nut grows into a tree, Grandpa begins to slow down until one sad day Emilia has to say goodbye.

Twelve-year-old Cuban American Benny must help the ghost of his rich, famous, and morally bankrupt musician grandfather cross over to the other side before the New Year's Eve deadline.

When thirteen-year-old Ellie's Grandpa Melvin, a world-renowned scientist in the body of a fourteen-year-old boy, comes for an extended visit, he teaches her that experimenting--and failing--is part of life.

Together with Grampa, Ray Halfmoon, a Seminole-Cherokee boy, finds creative and amusing solutions to life's challenges.

Thoughtful, strong-willed sixth-grader Merci Suarez navigates difficult changes with friends, family, and everyone in between.

"A visit to Leo's grandfather's farm turns upside down when his grandmother's bee hives are stolen. A light-hearted and funny middle-grade novel for fans of Rebecca Stead and Linda Mulally Hunt."--

Accused of witchcraft and shunned by his fearful village, twelve-year-old carpenter's apprentice Gauge allies with another orphan to prove his innocence and capture the magical wolf hounding his every move.

Grandpa and the children have an adventurous drive to the picnic grounds in this seek-and-find book.