grandfathers

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grandfathers

Someone to count on

a novel
1995
When eleven-year-old Sam visits her grandfather's ranch for the first time, she finds a new life very different from the one she has known with her vagabond mother and discovers what really matters most to her.

Into the dark

an Echo Falls mystery
2009
Thirteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes aficionado Ingrid Levin-Hill tries to clear her grandfather's name when he is accused of murdering an environmental activist found dead on his farm.

The Watermelon King

2003
Orphan Thomas Rider returns to the town of his birth at the age of eighteen to learn the truth about his parentage and how and why his mother came to destroy Ashland, Alabama's annual Watermelon Festival and accompanying fertility rite.

40 uses for a grandpa

2012
Grandpas are terrific and here are 40 reasons why.

No kiss for Grandpa

2001
After he and his grandfather spend the day doing what Louie wants to do, the young kitten gives Grandpa the best kiss ever.

Grandaddy and Janetta together

the three stories in one book
2001
Three stories about Janetta's friendship with her grandfather.

Stina's visit

1991
Stina and her grandfather visit an old sailor on his birthday.

Caleb's story

2002
The stranger lurking on the Witting family's prairie farm turns out to be their long-lost grandfather, whose presence plus prodding from Caleb forces Jacob to deal with his past.

Faith of my fathers

2000
Congressman John McCain explains how he learned about life and honor from his grandfather and father, both four-star admirals in the U.S. Navy.

On hope's wings

1998
In 1948, while her mother is off making yet another movie, fourteen-year-old Allison O'Brian makes her way from New York to Oregon to see the grandfather she has never met and to learn what she can about her supposedly dead father.

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