Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a nostalgic story of forgiveness set at Christmastime in 1943, seven-year-old Patrick Collins wants three things for Christmas: to leave his grandfather's house, for the army to find his father, and a wooden soldier tucked away in his grandfather's attic.
43) Play the game
Publisher
Distributed by Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young ladies' man, David, teaches his dating tricks to his lonely, widowed grandfather, and plays his best mind games in order to meet the woman of his dreams. But as David's games begin to fail him, Grandpa quickly transforms into the Don Juan of his nursing home. Slowly the teacher becomes the student, and it's up to grandpa to teach David that the best way to win the game of love is not to play games at all.
44) Long way North
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sacha, a young girl from the Russian aristocracy, dreams of the Great North and anguishes over the fate of her grandfather, Oloukine, a renowned scientist and Arctic explorer who has yet to return from his latest expedition to conquer the North Pole. Sacha has always been fascinated by the adventurous life of her grandfather and has the same calling to be an explorer. Sacha flees her home and launches an adventure-filled quest toward the Great North...
45) Ichiro
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[275] p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Raised by a Japanese mother in New York City, his American father killed in a war, Ichiro finds it difficult to figure out where he fits in. A trip to Japan leaves the boy with his grandfather, in a country he does not know. And one night Ichi gets dragged down a hole by a monster. When he awakens he isn't in Japan nor the mortal world. He has entered into the domain of the gods. Will Ichiro ever find a place to call home?
46) Heidi
Series
Shirley Temple volume 1
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. or b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When her aunt tires of caring for her, orphan Heidi goes to live in the Alps with her gruff grandfather, who comes to adore her. Eventually placed with another family, Heidi fights to join her grandfather again.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Things got out of hand for befuddled father George Banks when his young daughter unexpectedly announced her plans to wed. Life gets even crazier in the side-splitting sequel when his daughter and his wife both announce they are pregnant, and George desperately tries to capture the wild and crazy days of his youth.
49) Adored
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
Born into a Hollywood dynasty, Siena McMahon seems to have a fairy-tale life. Yet behind the gates of the sprawling McMahon mansion, the family is bound together by infighting and ambition. Siena must search the dysfunctional landscape of her life for people who will help her survive and become the person she was meant to be.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An international best seller: a vivid, masterly novel about a Flemish man who reconstructs his grandfather's story--his hopes, loves, and art, all disrupted by the First World War--from the unflinching notebooks he filled with pieces of his life. The life of Urbain Martien--artist, soldier, survivor of World War I--lies contained in two notebooks he left behind when he died in 1981. His grandson, a writer, retells his story, the notebooks giving...
51) Wild spaces
Author
Publisher
TorDotCom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
121 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"An eleven-year-old boy lives an idyllic childhood exploring the remote coastal plains and wetlands of South Carolina alongside his parents and his dog Teach. But when the boy's eerie and estranged grandfather shows up one day with no warning, cracks begin to form as hidden secrets resurface that his parents refuse to explain. The longer his grandfather outstays his welcome and the greater the tension between the adults grows, the more the boy feels...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berenice
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Primera edición en Berenice.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"In the wink of an eye, as quick as a flea, / The Devil he jumped from me to thee. / And only when the Devil had gone, / Did I know that he and I'd been one ... Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the farm where he grew up, to help gather the sheep down from the moors for the winter. Very little changes in the Endlands, but this year, his grandfather--the Gaffer--has died and John's new wife, Katherine, is accompanying him for the first time....
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Mud Sawpole mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Old grudges, tribal traditions, and outside influences collide for a Kiowa woman as forces threaten her family, her tribe, and the land of her ancestors...A cryptic voice message from her grandfather, James Sawpole, telling her to come home sounds so wrong that she catches the next plane to Oklahoma...When Mud and her cousin Denny discover her grandfather missing...and stumble across a body in his work room--Mud has no choice but to search for answers....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
""On rare occasions I read a book that reminds me of why I fell in love with storytelling in the first place. This is such a book." -Stephen King. Peter Blauner's epic Picture in the Sand is a sweeping intergenerational saga told through a grandfather's passionate letters to his grandson, passing on the story of his political rebellion in 1950s Egypt in order to save his grandson's life in a post-9/11 world. When Alex Hassan gets accepted to an Ivy...
Publisher
NCircle Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a young girl grows a pine tree named Piney on her grandfather's Christmas tree farm, but he is accidentally taken from the farm with another shipment when he is ready, her dog Jackster tries to lead Piney home by Christmas Eve while she and her grandfather search for them.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
[Widescreen edition].
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 211 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Father of the bride: The prenuptial pandemonium begins when the bride-to-be announces her engagement, setting off an outrageous chin of events, including a chaotic first meeting with the in-laws and a wedding day snowstorm.
Father of the bride Part II: George Banks feels far too young to be a grandfather ... and way too old to become a father again. So, when his recently married daughter Annie and his wife Nina both announce they're pregnant, the...
Author
Publisher
Sentinel
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xviii, 187 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mike Huckabee--pastor, politician, governor, presidential candidate, talk show host, rock bassist, pundit, husband, and father--shares his love and wisdom with his grandson Chandler and granddaughter Scarlett, recounting heartwarming stories from his past and the bittersweet lessons learned along the way.
59) Ojichan's gift
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colored illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young girl finds a way to give the gift of a traditional Japanese garden back to her beloved grandfather and accept a difficult change."--
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (427 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
What if Superman never existed? Set two generations before the destruction of Superman's home planet, this story follows Seg-EI, the legendary Man of Steel's grandfather, who is faced with a life-and-death conflict: save his home planet or let it be destroyed in order to restore the fate of his future grandson. With Krypton's leadership in disarray, Seg must balance the quest to redeem his family's honor and protect the ones he loves while being challenged...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request