When teenaged violinist Cassie Brittman's grandfather becomes ill, she and her mother return to her mother's childhood home where an ancient conflict involving their family clan resurfaces.
Old Bob gets a teddy bear for his birthday because he never had one as a child, but his grandaughter, thinking the bear deserves better than to be stuck between dusty books, wants to take him home.
After he and his cousin Kristin discover a sea chest full of runes and a journal belonging to their deceased Norwegian grandfather, fifteen-year-old Sky summons the old man's ghost, who teaches him how to use the power of the runestones to travel through time and space.
Contains an illustrated list of forty reasons to appreciate a grandfather, describing the different roles they play in a child's life and in the family.
When his beloved grandfather is killed in a storm while leading the swan flock south for the winter, Moonshadow is reassured by his father that the flock will go on with Grandfather always in their hearts.
