Abuela, don't forget me by Ogle, Rex 

BTSB Prebound(Norton Young Readers, 2022)

BTSB #: 686625 Available

Dewey: 306.874/BAges: 13-18   
Lexile: NP F&P: Z+

Genres:

Subjects: Ogle, Rex - Childhood and youth Poor people - Biography Grandparent-grandchild relationship Grandmothers American authors - Biography

Summary: Throughout a coming of age marked by violence and dysfunction, Abuela's red-brick house in Abilene, Texas, offered Rex the possibility of home, and Abuela herself the possibility for a better life. Abuela, Don't Forget Me is a lyrical portrait of the transformative and towering woman who believed in Rex even when he didn't yet know how to believe in himself.

We wait for the sun by Roundtree, Dovey Johnson 

BTSB Prebound(Roaring Brook Press, 2021)

BTSB #: 617346 Available

Dewey: 340.092/BAges: 4-8   
Lexile: 840 AD

Genres:

Subjects: Roundtree, Dovey Johnson,|d1914-2018 - Childhood and youth Grandparent-grandchild relationship Berries - Harvesting Morning Sun - Rising and setting African Americans - Biography

Summary: The author gives an account of a special time when her grandmother took her to pick berries from the nearby forest in the dark hours before the dawn and how they spent time admiring the sunrise after completing their mission.

While I was away by Brown, Waka T. 

Paperback(Quill Tree Books, 2022)

BTSB #: 162531 Available

Dewey: 305.8956/AAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.1 MG

Genres:

Subjects: Brown, Waka T Japanese Americans - Biography Families Grandparent-grandchild relationship Tokyo (Japan)

Summary: When twelve-year-old Waka's parents suspect she can't understand basic Japanese they speak to her, they make the drastic decision to send her to Tokyo to live for several months with her strict grandmother. Forced to say goodbye to her friends and what would have been her summer vacation, Waka is plucked from her straight-A-student life in rural Kansas and flown across the globe, where she faces the culture shock of a lifetime.