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781) La lengua del viento
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"Guillermo descubre tras una ventana a una niña que llora. Su nombre es Elisa y va en silla de ruedas. Elisa le pide que busque a su abuelo que se ha escapado del centro en el que estaba. Guillermo empieza a investigar el lugar donde puede estar el abuelo y también el tesoro que dejó a su nieta y que parece estar relacionado con una colección de libros muy valiosa."--
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Thirteen-year-old, clarinet-playing, Southern California surfer, Yumi Ruiz-Hirsch, comes from a complex family--her father is Jewish-Japanese, her mother is Cuban, and her parents are divorced--and when her grandfather Saul is diagnosed with terminal cancer, Yumi asks him to tell her his life story, which helps her to understand her own history and identity.
785) Mi abuelo y yo
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"En todo el mundo, en todos los idiomas, en todos los países, lo que más les gusta a los abuelos es... ¡estar con sus nietos!"--
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"Pilar recibe de su abuelo una hamaca mágica, con la cual se transporta a la antigua Grecia. Allí conocerá a personajes emblemáticos de la mitología griega y vivirá toda clase de situaciones, mientras aprende no solo sobre la historia de esta civilización, sino también sobre los misterios de la vida y la muerte."--
788) Mystery isle
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What seems a harmless enough trip to the family's ancestral home on a Maine island turns into something much more dangerous for thirteen-year-old Kim.
790) The shadow children
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While spending the summer on his grandfather's farm in the French countryside, eleven-year-old Etienne discovers a secret dating back to World War II and encounters the ghosts of Jewish children who suffered a dreadful fate under the Nazis.
791) Let's play jegi
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Traditional Korean games volume 3
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When Dongje finds his friends playing jegi without him, he confronts Han, the jegi champion of Yonggol, only to find out that they don't want to play with him because he's the worst player. But after Dongje's grandpa gives him a colorful jegi made out of feathers, he is shocked at how easily he picks up the game! Jealous of Dongje's new skills, Han challenges him to a game, but is holding the title of jegi master really the most important part of...
793) My dad, my rock
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"Oliver never met his grandpa. He wonders what he would tell Grandpa if the two of them could meet, even once. Oliver decides that he would tell him about an amazing man that Grandpa never met: Oliver's dad, Grandpa's own son. In this touching and heartfelt story, you will be take on a journey of what it means to be a dad and to be the master of your own destiny."--Back cover
794) Trials of Kate Hope
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At the young age of fourteen, Kate Hope is licensed to practice law in the state of Colorado in 1973, and with the help of her lawyer grandfather, and memories of her dead father, also a lawyer, she tries the case of a dog that is slated to be destroyed for attacking a baby.
795) Check mates
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Felix School isn't a problem child. He's a child with a problem... Felix's ADHD makes it hard for him to concentrate and his grades are slipping. Everyone keeps telling him to try harder, but no one seems to understand just how hard he finds it. When Mum suggests Felix spends time with his grandfather, Felix can't think of anything worse. Granddad hasn't been the same since Grandma died, and he's always trying to teach Felix boring chess. But sometimes...
797) Toucania
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"A young explorer has a chance to travel to a magical island inhabited by unusual creatures she's only ever heard about in bedtime stories told to her by her grandfather."--
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"Laura discovers that beauty and perfection exist not only in the sky but also in the universe. Through conversations with her grandfather, Bruno, Laura gains a better understanding of how beauty goes beyond physical appearance, and that all living creatures and elements of nature acquire a special value when we recognize their purpose. She also learns how to understand what perfection means. By learning these virtues, she realizes that if the sky...
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"Wei-Lin y su abuelo tienen una relación muy especial. Viven cerca del rio Yang-Tsé, en China, en plena revolución neolítica. Se pasan los días pescando, recolectando frutos, almacenando arroz, moliendo grano y haciendo harina. Por las noches, alrededor del fuego, el abuelo de Wei-Lin saca su flauta y toca unas bonitas melodías mientras explica unas historias que gustan tanto a pequeños como a mayores. Hasta que un día empieza a perder la...
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From his first day, school had been torture for Gregory and it got progressively worse, until he was expelled in eighth grade, but through all his difficulties, Gregory could count on support from his grandfather, until his grandfather became ill and needed support from Gregory.
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