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Kadono, Eiko. GRANDPA'S SOUPGrand Rapids, MI : Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2009IL K-3, RL 3.3ISBN 0802853471Grandpa is so sad. Grandma has passed away and now Grandpa is lonely and sad. He decides to cook her special soup to make him happier. But he doesn't know the recipe. So every day, he tries a new recipe and shares it with others starting with the mice. Will he ever get the recipe right? And find happiness again?
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Heuvel, Eric. A FAMILY SECRETNew York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2009IL 5-8, RL 4.7ISBN 0374422656During World War II in Holland, there were ordinary people who became heroes. As his grandmother tells of her teen years in Holland, Jeroen learns that someone in his family may be one of them. Grandmother's father was a policeman who went along with the Dutch Nazi Party so he could get a promotion. But her mother was strongly opposed to what was going on in their country. Her bother is also pro-Nazi and can't wait to join the army. But her other brother was secretly working with the resistence. When it becomes clear that Grandmother's best friend is to go to the concentration camp, she begs her father to help her friend. But her father refuses. After the war, he is executed as a collaborator. But his story has not been told.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Today's Book 01/11/2011
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