grandparents

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grandparents

Valerie and the silver pear

1992
Valerie and her grandfather preserve the memory of her grandmother by making pear pies together. Includes a recipe for pear pie.

The melodeon

1977
A youngster relates how his grandparents donated a valuable family heirloom, their melodeon, to the church in an unselfish act of giving one Christmas during the Depression when they had nothing to give each other.

The art of keeping cool

2001
In 1942, Robert and his cousin Elliot uncover long-hidden family secrets while staying in their grandparents' Rhode Island town, where they also become involved with a German artist who is suspected of being a spy.

Missing in action

2011
While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.

A special day

1993
A young boy enjoys a visit with his grandparents at their house in the woods, where he meets a friendly, hungry bear.

Touch the sky summer

1997
Luke and his family take their annual trip to their grandparents' lakeside cabin where they spend time fishing, camping, and hiking.

The gift stone

1998
Jean, who lives underground in an Australian opal mining town, finds a precious stone large enough to allow her to move into a proper house with her grandparents.

Robert lives with his grandparents

1995
Robert is embarrassed to admit to his classmates that he has lived with his grandparents ever since his parents' divorce.

The farm summer 1942

1994
A young boy spends the summer on his grandparents' farm in New Hampshire while his mother works for the war effort in New York and his father serves on a destroyer in the Pacific.

Jurassic Grampa

2009
After fossilized dinosaur droppings contaminated the pet food across Gringham County Merle gets saber-toothed, Wiley's lizard becomes a tyrannosaur, but the worst is when Grampa turns into a caveman for consuming a tainted dog treat.

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