grandfathers

Marisol, who lives in Puerto Rico, wants a dog very much but her grandfather will not let her have one, until a skinny mutt wins him over.

Visiting his grandfather all by himself for the first time, five-year-old Leroy has trouble getting used to the routine and the big loud clock that bongs every hour.

In an isolated mountain village, nine-year-old Maria and her grandfather rescue and raise a wolf cub, Shadow, and when Shadow eventually leaves to join his own kind, a stranger's words help Maria to accept that this is for the best.

A little boy and his grandfather go for a walk to a farm, where the grandfather introduces the little boy to many of the different farm animals.

Peter's birthday gift to his grandfather turns out to be much more unusual, and much more trouble, than either of them could have guessed.

When Grandpa tells a boy and his sister why he prays so much they stop thinking that he is just a boring old man.

The summer Allison turns twelve brings many disturbing changes, as she fights to protect her beloved grandfather from the schemes of other family members and seeks the courage to stand up to the taunts of her spiteful cousin Carolina.

When his family attends a reunion in Louisiana, eleven-year-old Ray learns about his Creole roots and about the circumstances that have kept him from ever meeting his father's father.

Despairing because the air has become so filthy that it blocks the sun's rays, the richest man in the world decides to use his money to build a tower so that his grandson can experience the sun as it once was.

A Native American girl's feelings are hurt when schoolmates make fun of the children who live at the lake, but then her grandpa tells her a Seneca folktale that reminds her how much she appreciates her home and her place in the world.