Celebrate Older Americans Month and read stories about grandparents!
"What Grandmas Do Best: What Grandpas Do Best "by Laura Joffe Numeroff
"The Always Prayer Shawl" by Sheldon Obermanm Illustrations by Ted Levin
"Grandpa's Teeth" by Rod Clement
"Thundercake" by Patricia Polacco
"The Wednesday Surprise" by Eve Bunting, Illustrations by Donald Carrick
"Now One Foot, Now the Other" by Tomie De Paola
"Shoes for Grandpa" by Mem Fox, illustrations by Patricia Mullins
Books About Immigration
America is a land of immigrants. People have been immigrating to the USA for the past 400 years. Each new wave brings new peoples from different lands and many of them were children braving the voyage alone. The books listed below are just a few of their stories.
1.A Picnic in October by Eve Bunting
2.Dreaming of America: An Ellis Island Story by Eve Bunting
3.Tattered Sails by Verla Kay
4.A Boy Named Chong by Brian & Heather Marchant
5.The American Wei by Marion Hess Pomeranc
6.Anna's Goat by Janice Kulyk Keefer
7.Letters From Rifka by Karen Hesse (chapter book)
8.In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord (chapter book)
9.How Tia Lola came to Visit Stay by Julia Alvarez (chapter book)
10. A Day's Work by Eve Bunting
11. How Many Days to America? by Eve Bunting
12. mama provi and the pot of rice by Sylvia Rosa-Casanova
13. Something's Happening on Calabash Street by Judith Ross Enderle & Stephanie Jacob Gordon
14. Boundless Grace by Mary Hoffman
15. Big Jimmy's Kum Kau Chinese Take Out by Ted Lewin
16. The Brand New Kid by Katie Couric
17. Gleam and Glow by Eve Bunting
18. Very Important Day by Herold
19. The Lotus Seed by Sherry Garland
20. Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
21. Grandmother and the Runaway Shadow by Liz Rosenberg
22. The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco
23. The Hand-Me-Down Horse by Marion Hess Pomeranc
24. Klara's New World by Jeanette Winter
25. Annushka's Voyage by Edith Tarbescu
26. I Hate English! by Ellen Levine
27. When Jessie Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest
28. Lights for Gita by Rachna Gilmore
29. The Dream Jar by Bonnie Pryor
30. An Mei's Strange and Wondrous Journey by Stephan Molnar-Fenton
31. When This World Was New by K.H. Figueredo
32. Apple Pie and Onions by Judith Caseley
33. Buba Leah and Her Paper Children by Lillian Hammer Ross
34. Watch the Stars Come Out by Riki Levinson
35. Dancing with Dzaidziu by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
36. My Grandmother's Journey by John Cech
37. All the Lights in the Night by Arthur A. Levine
38. What Zeesie Saw on Delancey Street by Elsa Okon Rael
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