grandfathers

Thirteen-year-old Birch encourages her grandfather to fulfill his dream of flying his old Piper Cub plane from South Carolina to California and then informs him that she is coming along.

Knowing that he is dying, Jess' grandfather insists on returning to the river he had known as a boy to finish a special painting and fulfill a life-long dream.

"DJ is always thrilled to spend time with his grandfather, whom he idolizes. Even when it involves being in a small plane as the two fly to Central America for a week. Then a kidnapping attempt forces DJ to flee throught the jungle and down a crocodile-infested river, pursued by armed gunmen. During the escape, DJ uncovers things about his beloved grandfather that point to a secret life and questionable activities DJ never thought possible."--Back cover.

Gramps gets a good bargain on an apparently perfect bay mare for Lily, but because the horse is named Beware he suspects that there may be something wrong with her.

"In this rhyming picture book, a young girl describes the magical encounters with wildlife that she and her grandfather witness while out in the red canoe"--Provided by publisher.

"Calvin Sidey is a cowboy of the old-school, no-guff sort--steely, hardened, with his own personal code. It's the 1960s, and he's living off the grid in a stifling trailer on the prairie when his adult son, Bill, seeks his help. A mostly absentee father, and a virtual no-show as a grandfather, Calvin nevertheless reluctantly agrees to stay with his grandchildren for a week. He decamps for his son's dark and musty basement, to the small town where he once was a mythic figure, and soon enough problems arise: a boy's attentions to seventeen-year-old Ann are increasingly aggressive, and a group of reckless kids portend danger for eleven-year-old Will. Calvin only knows one way to solve a problem: the Old West way, in which scores are settled, ultimatums are issued, and your gun is always loaded. In the changing culture of the 1960s, Calvin isn't just a relic, he's a wild card and a threat.".

Desperate to escape their confining lives, Corrina and Hendrix hatch a plot to drive Hendrix's grandfather from Los Angeles to New York and fulfill his dying wish of returning to the hill where he first kissed his wife. With their family, doctors, and the police on their trail, Corrina and Hendrix will discover if his grandpa's stories about life and love are really true.

Illustrations and simple rhyming text tell a story about two children who hear strange noises at night while visiting their grandfather's farm.

Puzzling over conflicting advice from family members, seventeen-year-old DeQuin Lewis continually faces trouble in his St. Paul, Minnesota, neighborhood, until a betrayal leads him to fresh start in an alternative school, one confrontation away from losing everything.

Cousins William and Maxine arrive on the doorstep of Battersea Manor in May of 1929, to stay the summer with their grandfather, whom they hardly remember. Before they even get settled in, though, Grandpa, or Colonel Battersea, receives a cryptic telegram and takes them to New York to pick up a mysterious parcel. Before they get the parcel, Grandpa disappears, and the cousins meet Nura, a girl from Turkey who seems to know a lot about Colonel Battersea and the importance of the parcel--and she needs their help to stop a secret society of assassins and a group of cold-blooded gangsters from getting the parcel first.