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Getting us to Grandma's  Cover Image Book Book

Getting us to Grandma's / written by Nadia L. Hohn ; illustrated by TeMika Grooms.

Hohn, Nadia L. (Author). Grooms, TeMika. (Added Author).

Summary:

No one knows maps like Nikki - but can she get her family to Grandma's house in time? Nikki's family is preparing for a long road trip from Toronto to the Bronx to attend Uncle Travis's wedding. They pack their suitcases, boxes of Jamaican black cake, and most importantly to Nikki, the big map book! Nikki loves geography and enjoys tracing the routes to all the places her relatives live - her Grandpa in Florida, her cousins in Atlanta, DC, and Boston. She daydreams of England, where other family lives, and Jamaica and Africa, where her roots run deep. Her attention comes back to the road trip when it's clear that Daddy's taken a wrong turn. "I can help!" says Nikki, who proves to be an excellent navigator. She guides them back to the Bronx Expressway, under the elevated subway tracks, onto a street of brown row houses and safely to Grandma's. Inspired by the childhoods of author Nadia L. Hohn and illustrator TeMika Grooms, Getting Us to Grandma's is full of fun historic details - a world before Google Maps! - and authentic cultural moments shared by diasporic families, whose stories can be traced across continents. A fantastic representation of Black girls in STEM.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781773066899 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto : Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press, 2024.
Subject: Automobile travel > Juvenile fiction.
Map reading > Juvenile fiction.
Maps > Juvenile fiction.
Weddings > Juvenile fiction.
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) > Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Picture books.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lakeshore Branch GRO JP Hohn 31681030054555 PICTURE Available -

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520 . ‡aNo one knows maps like Nikki - but can she get her family to Grandma's house in time? Nikki's family is preparing for a long road trip from Toronto to the Bronx to attend Uncle Travis's wedding. They pack their suitcases, boxes of Jamaican black cake, and most importantly to Nikki, the big map book! Nikki loves geography and enjoys tracing the routes to all the places her relatives live - her Grandpa in Florida, her cousins in Atlanta, DC, and Boston. She daydreams of England, where other family lives, and Jamaica and Africa, where her roots run deep. Her attention comes back to the road trip when it's clear that Daddy's taken a wrong turn. "I can help!" says Nikki, who proves to be an excellent navigator. She guides them back to the Bronx Expressway, under the elevated subway tracks, onto a street of brown row houses and safely to Grandma's. Inspired by the childhoods of author Nadia L. Hohn and illustrator TeMika Grooms, Getting Us to Grandma's is full of fun historic details - a world before Google Maps! - and authentic cultural moments shared by diasporic families, whose stories can be traced across continents. A fantastic representation of Black girls in STEM.
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650 0. ‡aMap reading ‡vJuvenile fiction.
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650 0. ‡aWeddings ‡vJuvenile fiction.
651 0. ‡aBronx (New York, N.Y.) ‡vJuvenile fiction.
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