The case of Red Corn’s grandfather was one of those voids. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

That the new queen was in fact a witch, that his grandfather had suspected it to be true when he married her, but that he had overlooked it because of her beauty. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then, after only four months, Mrs. Hines announced that Luke and I were going to live with my grandfather. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Before he can answer, the toilet flushes and my grandfather emerges from the bathroom. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

He pushed himself up from his knees, winced, and reached out for the picket gate, not caring much whether he got blood on Mrs. Cobb’s grandfather’s work. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

As he approached, my grandfather’s step seemed to pick up life. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It is very, very difficult to sneak out of an RV when a grandfather is sleeping right on a pullout bench below. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I’m expecting this giant rat to take a big bite out of my grandfather’s leg, but instead he asks, “Hey, Trub—got any grub?” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“They would listen to your grandfather before they would ever heed me.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

His father would float in a sea of white ice, his grandfather atop the white palms. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moths gnawing away at her grandfather’s ancient smocks? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her romance with my grandfather came at the highest of costs. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

That was her grandfather’s phrase, the one he had shouted at her when she drew the long number on her arm. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered my grandfather’s compassionate heart for the poor—how he reached out to them and in Christ’s name met their needs—both spiritual and financial. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Watching Iranian soap operas with her grandfather,” Dad said without looking up from his sketchpad. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I saw tears in my grandfather’s eyes as he talked to them. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were the legacy kids, whose fathers and grandfathers had been Tigers or whose families had funded the building of a dorm or a library. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My grandfather lacked the necessary classics degree; he hadn’t even graduated from university. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Tom found my grandfather lying on the floor and got him to a small hospital in Clanton. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment I thought of my grandfather and quickly dismissed him. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

If her grandfather had been there, he might have told her that a peaceable spirit was the reward of charity. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Looks like Halloween is early this year,” my grandfather says, gesturing to a group of goth boys standing in line. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

He was in the apartment, it was just the two of us, grandfather and grandson. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The shot that Travis Burdow fired over Rob Nelson’s team that night was a shot fired at a society that had kicked a boy from childhood on because he bore his grandfather’s name. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before anyone can say anything, my grandfather clears his throat, folds his hands together on top of the table, and leans forward to speak. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

His grandfather was alive and well and looked nothing like this guy. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

To which her father replied, “Why shouldn’t she? Her grandfather married a Cherokee in Texas.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom tells stories of how when she was little, my grandfather would keep experiments in the refrigerator. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

It would have to be his grandfather, for Jory's father was buried far to the south. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His aunt Dorothy—his grandfather’s youngest half sister—was a secretary at one of the churches. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

What if the bird my grandfather wanted me to find was actually the woman who’d rescued him—the headmistress of the children’s home? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

When she stood back up, her grandfather was watching her with his hands on his hips. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My grandfather is sitting at a table and waving wildly at me. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

But be ready to die, my grandfather says, for what is right. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I pass the final exam,” my grandfather told them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“This is our stop,” I tell my grandfather, pulling him after me. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

In New York, my grandfather developed stomach ailments, and from then on all the foods in the world were divided into those that agreed and those that did not agree with Papito. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He talked on and on about the models his grandfather had given him, pointing out every little detail of his prized World War II fighter jet and the ugly army-green one, a bomber. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Never found out until, of course, being a young girl and very curious, I took my grandfather’s canoe out one day while he was sleeping. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

In the colored part of the cemetery, they sank Chicken Little in between his grandfather and an aunt. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was dusting the grandfather clock in the front hall. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather’s cranky face stares back from the photo, and the look in his eyes is exactly the same as on the boy’s face. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

It took several days before I realized Luke was not coming to my new foster home, which was nowhere near my grandfather’s house. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be mentioning that house, or Old Man Harris, or any of this to your grandfather. It’s a bit of a sore spot.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Now tell me all about yourself. The last I heard of you, your grandfather wrote that he expected you from Berlin.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost as an afterthought, she adds, “Something to do with getting your grandfather from the police.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

She opens the door to her grandfather’s bedroom and stops. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Weird, right? But my grandfather used to say he had the best job in the world.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Little Willy lived with his grandfather on a small potato farm in Wyoming. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to slump into the chair next to the grandfather clock to take it in. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I could tell he was eager to avoid any mention of psychiatrists or dead grandfathers. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

When my grandfather died, my father had said, “Phillip, sometimes people die from just being very, very tired.” The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather tried to embrace her, but she shrugged him off. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“What your grandfather’s last words meant isn’t my conclusion to draw,” he said. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But I don't smell anything except the lotion I rub into my grandfather's hands. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

But suddenly I’m too young to know why my own grandfather has been busted? Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Nina's Russian grandfather on the Volga and Marinas Indian great-grandfather in Guyana were linked by sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She had bought a turtle for my grandfather because it would lengthen his life. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m anxious to share it with the others, and if they like it, I want to show my grandfather. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“My grandfather was mixed up with bad men—men like Erin’s brother, Rod. Probably hard for you to imagine.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m nearly at my grandfather’s lab when a voice stops me dead in my tracks. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“I don't eat any of that stuff,” my grandfather says. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

My grandfather came to two practices this week. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I wanted to cry just listening to my grandfather. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

My grandfather explodes into the kitchen, shouting, “They closed my email account!” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Even though she never met her grandfather, his presence filled the house. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad and I had been in the north country recently, retracing a 1915 wilderness journey taken by my grandfather. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got back to my grandfather’s house, a new Chevy sedan sat in the driveway. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I glanced at the grandfather clock in the corner and was shocked to discover it was only four-thirty. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather joked with the nurses and talked with people all over the hospital. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He went directly to his mother’s bedroom, where Aureliano had boiled mercury for four months in his grandfather's grandfather’s water pipe to conserve the body according to Melquíades’ formula. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The grandfathers, way past slashing but still able enough to bind stalks or feed the sugar vats, used to be thought safe. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather has some silky, long, curly hair. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I, too, said a silent goodbye, to a place that had changed me forever—and the place that, more than any graveyard, would forever contain the memory, and the mystery, of my grandfather. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

In the living room of the old house it was cool, and a grandfather clock ticked high and long and bronzed in one corner. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing to do was to be prepared—as my grandfather had been when it was demanded that he quote the entire United States Constitution as a test of his fitness to vote. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It used to belong to your grandfather. He was always working on it. I thought you might like it.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Both my father and my grandfather were late starters so far as children were concerned. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Better that than our lives," my grandfather would console my grandmother, who wanted to leave the country again immediately. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

This made my grandfather call my brother over to talk about it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve nothing to fear. Bush Hill is now a respectable place. Your grandfather was a clever, kind man to bring you here.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so different from the way Papa had treated my maternal grandfather until he died five years ago. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

This was smart on my mom’s part because my brother is the only person who can get my grandfather to stop making a scene because he’s really direct about it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Edmund Hooper examined the tides of some of the books the day he was brought here to see his dying grandfather, and they were of no interest. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Her grandfather often called her ‘Beth’, and her grandmother watched over her with untiring devotion, as if trying to atone for some past mistake, which no eye but her own could see. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six months—maybe more—of living here with his grandfather, who always seemed on the verge of blowing up. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Idiot,” my grandfather comments when a skateboarder executes a neat flip. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

My grandfather sits up straighter, stares at me hard. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

I explained about my grandfather and the children’s home. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“My grandfather swore in his first language. It drove my grandmother crazy, because she didn’t speak it. But she sang in Italian when she cooked, so...” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Second floor, third, fourth fifth sixth, left turn into her grandfather’s room. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Christian was traveling to outer Pennsylvania to sell these weird daggers and swords he inherited from his grandfather to this collector.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Can a grandfather jail a patriotic grandson who is dying that Italy may live? A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

His grandfather said, “Those Orientals are very good with details.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all lived in a brick house that Elizebeth’s grandfather had built, on the Smith family farm in Union Township, a few miles east of Huntington, Indiana. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I thanked my grandfather with all my heart and asked him how long I'd have to wait for the notice. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, despite his insulation, my grandfather was shivering. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Tell me about a girl who lives in a house with her grandfather, about a house that's full of easy love, about a house that isn't haunted. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I did not know if the baby was making me sick or if your grandfather was. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

As I reached the door, my grandfather said in a loud voice, “Say, it’s been a long time since you’ve had any candy, hasn’t it?” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was convinced it had killed my grandfather and that it would soon return for me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Because your grandfather will get his revolver if they don’t.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And he looks just like me, or almost like me, and maybe he is me, I think, but then he speaks, and it’s my grandfather’s voice. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“That is none of your business. Take me home!” she ordered, copying the authoritarian tone her grandfather employed with everyone he considered beneath his social station. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man jogged over to my grandfather, who speed-walked to meet him halfway. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And there was my grandfather, adding his low baritone in sad, sweet harmony to the music, his long beard glinting in the firelight. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

My grandfather doesn’t look very happy when he reads his fortune. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

They’d heard this discussion between grandfather and grandson many times over. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t you back me with your grandfather? Do you want us to lose this house?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

My grandfather was lost and wandering in that white jungle of cane. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were men created from ants on the island of Aegina, in the reign of Aeacus, Achilles’ grandfather, and they were Achilles’ followers in the Trojan War. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are also the grandfathers of the germ theory of disease, and therefore of much of modern medicine. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather says something loudly and my mother shouts back. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

It was his other grandfather’s name, a man he had never met. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Red Corn gave me the names of several Osage who, she thought, might have information about the murders, and she promised to later share with me a related story about her grandfather. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

You can say your prayer here and roll Jesus and St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi’s grandfather all in one.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

When Mike and Terrell drive away I go inside and find my grandfather drinking a beer. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cry for a little while longer, knowing full well that Marc will remember these as tears for his grandfather, that he will never remember I’ve been here at all. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Ardeshir Bahrami—my grandfather—had leaned a ladder against the side of the house, right next to the little round window above my bed, and he was halfway up to the roof. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

If our soldier boys had learned to knit, if my grandfather had learned, maybe it wouldn’t kill me to learn. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Thank God their grandfather was helping them out. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I am not prepared for the open casket, to have Marc’s grandfather right there in front of me when we walk into the chapel. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

One brownstone was rotund—like a jolly, well-fed grandfather—with a curved facade and decorative curlicues above round, owlish windows. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“He was with your grandfather—his brother—when he died. In the war. ‘Got a bit of gas in the head’ is how they used to say it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My grandfather glowers at him as he passes. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The musical center of my family, though, was my grandfather Shields, the carpenter, who was also Robbie's younger brother. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She asked me about her grandfather, and I showed her The Midnight Special Billy Preston video on YouTube, and she thinks I look like him. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I thought, My grandfather’s house is six hundred years old and made of stone. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Sitting in the kitchen, they looked at Milkman with such rheumy eyes, and spoke about his grandfather with such awe and affection, Milkman began to miss him too. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother, who had separated from my grandfather many years earlier, was especially unnerved by the crime and his death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But maybe I can go further back, to a less complicated time when cute was an accurate description of my grandfather and Mabel was simply my best friend. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But once his grandfather left, Sherm realized that with the guys at school, talking was like a game where everyone piled on jokes and the winner was the person whose joke ended up on top. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

When I reach it, I discover it’s a bottle of my grandfather’s favorite brand of beer. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

My grandfather had brought sugar and cream and two loaves of fresh bread so we had a good meal. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung’s grandfather, who had farmed the very fields upon which Wang Lung now spent his life, had built it, hauling the bricks from the town upon his wheelbarrow. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“I just wanted to say hi while your grandfather was out. Maybe I can heat up some soup or leftover tamales?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

His dad is locally renowned as a jerk and a bigot, and there’s a rumor that his grandfather was involved with the KKK and the Night of a Thousand Flames. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

My grandfather’s new business associates: in the front seat sits Mabel Reese, twenty-six years old, from Kentucky, face rouged, hair giving off a burnt smell from the morning’s curling iron. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

You've got your daddy's easy way, my grandmother says to me, holding the picture of my grandfather in her hands. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

This is the way brown people have to fight, my grandfather says. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Someone had come to see my grandfather about buying a car. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the authorities believed that Adele, who was twelve years older than my grandfather and had been his live-in companion for two years by that time, would make sure that nothing happened to us. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Besides, she did not want the child discussing this with her grandfather, which would certainly lead to disaster. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were simply more people in Marc’s grandfather’s life than his grandson could comprehend. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She tied her hair back with a scrunchie and kept reading as her grandfather snored on. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I know you miss your grandfather, but that’s no excuse for acting like some little demon.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Spending the last money his grandfather gave him. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“I had to resign myself to the idea that you would stay here in spite of everything,” my grandfather said, embracing me. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the boy lifting the boulder in my grandfather’s pictures. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

My grandfather, who hasn’t prayed since he was in Bursa, has the impulse to give it another go. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Or my grandfather will cut me off without a cent.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When the sheriff apprehended him for grave-robbery and gold-hoarding, Mr. Fink demurred on the theory that if his own grandfather wasn’t his, whose was he? Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

His eyes flicker to me briefly before returning to my grandfather. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Since this part of our property adjoined the palacio of the dictator's daughter and son-in-law, my grandfather had been reluctant to erect a high wall lest it be considered a snub. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I will draw a sight draft on my grandfather, I said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

At least my grandfather had been able to join the army and go fight them. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Looking back at the judge, I said, “If you don’t mind, I’ll take it with me. My grandfather can send it in for me.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was only your grandfather and me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But as the children and their grandfather saw him lying in the dim light, they stopped, shocked still. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather’s short employ at the Ford Motor Company marked the only time any Stephanides has ever worked in the automobile industry. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“My grandfather got it from missionary work. Somewhere in the Galápagos Islands.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

On Amherst Street, Gogol sits at his grandfather’s drawing table, poking through a tin full of dried-out nibs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The laws governing inheritance are quite unknown; no one can say why...the child often reverts in certain characters to its grandfather.... The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it was listed under their grandfather’s name. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather’s rules are your grandfather’s rules. He has his reasons. I’m not about to go breaking them. Or bending them either.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Children, you cannot go to Seoul now! It is too dangerous,” the grandfather said. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The marriage of princess and prince, both struck with love, would have proceeded unhindered — for my grandfather the King approved the match — had a prince of another kingdom not jealously desired my mother. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He told me my grandfather wanted to see me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brother and I alternated going with her, and my grandfather always served Sunday supper to my grandmother and whichever of us was along as if we were regular club guests. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“And you don’t think me as handsome as your grandfather?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below each gay scrap of color was a scientific name in my grandfather’s careful copperplate script. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

When my sister finished her speech, we all clapped and yelled, but nobody clapped or yelled louder than my grandfather. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

When McAuliffe tried to find the killer of his grandmother, he initially suspected his grandfather Harry, who was white. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I was trapped on this side of the road, away from my uncles, and the river was too flooded to swim across to the village and the safety of my grandfather’s home. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chief jutted out his lower lip, examining my grandfather. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The lines were the old grandfather’s deathbed advice, talking about his life after slavery, his life still struggling: ‘“Learn it to the young’uns’” his final, “fiercely” whispered words. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My grandfather pulled his car into our family’s front yard and honked the horn. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Hell, if it hadn’t been for me and my grandfather, those farmers would have had to migrate out of there long ago.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They put new glass in the cupola, painted the fence Mrs. Cobb’s grandfather had built, and then painted the porch. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The police brought the somewhat contrite young men and the dead couple’s five-year-old orphan boy before my grandfather, who was a highly regarded judge and a man of impeccable reputation. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And having lived there, it was hers—and his, and his father’s, his grandfather’s, his grandmother’s. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Perseus felt any grief, at least he knew that his grandfather had done his best to kill him and his mother. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had first been played with by Palmer’s great-grandfather, then by his grandfather, then his father. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Following this cold wind, which kept blowing through the Indian summer of 1932,1 sail down the basement stairs to find my grandfather, one morning, counting money. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I’m disappointed, but I set up my phone to keep recording my grandfather. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I remember my grandfather had an Axminster that could seat twelve — but that was before carpets were banned, of course.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

My grandfather wouldn’t leave until he finished printing out something from the Internet. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

A man rifled through his grandfather’s crate of record albums. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“I know, Bud. But remember, your grandfather and I just found out that she passed. The hurt is brand-new for us.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I pick up the basket, go through the kitchen door and along the hall towards the grandfather clock. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was of the Faith, like her father and grandfather and his father before him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Jimmy and his grandfather crossed into their third state in four days. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

She would go on to have five more children with my grandfather. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

So before the five frock coats had clambered out of the dory, Lizzie’s grandfather knew of their coming. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I have a sudden realization: even though my mom’s a grown-up with her own life, my grandfather still treats her like a kid. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

During the Jim Crow era, African Americans were denied the right to vote through poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and felon disenfranchisement laws, even though the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t even the prospect of returning to his grandfather’s grim house. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And then she saw one of her novitiate sisters weeping over the death of her grandfather, and Sister Ignatia staring at the girl—all hunger and muscle and predatory leap. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They don’t know that their grandfather has been my lawyer for forty-one years. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry looked at the grandfather clock by the door. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

After a long moment, she said, “My grandfather says I could outquiet a stump.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They arraigned him before a justice, but by that time your grandfather and Mr Coldfield had got there. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a hedge against bad times, however, Kiowa also carried his grandmother’s distrust of the white man, his grandfather’s old hunting hatchet. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the far end of the room Mr. Justice Wargrave was sitting in a grandfather chair. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Did he know that Negroes like my grandfather had been freed during those days just before the college had been founded? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was during those days that in a moment of carelessness little Aureliano appeared on the porch and his grandfather recognized the secret of his identity. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I guess that after everything my grandfather had been through, he never really felt safe anywhere, not even at home. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Before the war, Jack had had parents, a brother, a sister, a grandfather, uncles, aunts, and cousins—eighty people in all. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

But they weren’t, so his grandfather would have to do. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My grandfather thought that was a wonderful way to begin a report. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The way my grandfather stared at me made me uneasy. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even his grandfather had looked healthy when he’d visited him in California a few months before he died. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I took a gun out of my grandfather’s house and brought it with me to school today. I was going to use it to shoot myself.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was a picture of her and my grandfather when my grandfather was young. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Your grandfather is no longer himself, and the store sells less and less. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And even though I knew I was named after my grandfather, I also knew I had inherited the name of the world's most famous philosopher. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“In my grandfather’s time, cows were four or five years old at slaughter,” Rich Blair explained to me. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Back in the parlor, I looked at my grandfather's Omega and saw that there was no time. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I will, but only if you’ll tell me everything you know about the creatures that killed my grandfather.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

My grandmother agreed to marry my grandfather because she never thought she’d live to see the wedding. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My grandfather had been wrong about yessing them to death and destruction or else things had changed too much since his day. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And her grandfather, after peering at Turner for a moment, followed her. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

How could everything as solid as the earth my grandfather fought for crumble so easily beneath my feet? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Why did I feel so flat on what should have been the happiest day of my life, and my grandfather’s life? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Hey, kid, want a seat?” somebody asks me, patting the place next to him and staring at my grandfather hair. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

She told him then that the time had come for him to seek his father, and a ship was placed at his disposal by his grandfather. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whereas my grandfather was getting used to a much more terrifying reality. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He looked a little like my grandfather, not as heavy, but his face, the way his hair was graying, even the way he moved. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

My grandfather came to spend Rosh Hashanah with us so as to attend the services of the celebrated Rebbe of Borsche. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I realized that I was about to follow in my grandfather’s footsteps in a way I’d never thought possible. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Sierra took a deep breath and studied her old grandfather, the blue veins along his crinkled arms, the deep-brown eyes. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

When it’s time for Sam to go home, she takes her cell phone out and calls her grandfather to let him know she’s on her way. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"Just something about the air. And I've seen lots of rings around the moon too. Something my grandfather taught me to do back home." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I remember. My father was an artist,” she tells Maxine, pointing to one of his grandfather’s watercolors on the wall. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Times when they have to eat too,” my grandfather added. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the years Soojin has taught me enough phrases of Korean that I understand when Soojin asks her grandfather if he wants her to get him anything to eat. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Lolo, my grandfather, used to say, “That’s how dreams work. You just have to do them.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

And it was home for my mom until her parents earned enough money to bring the family to the States to fulfill my grandfather’s dream of a theology degree from an American university. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“My grandfather was a military officer, Colonel. A major. He died for the Gray at Antietam.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A drunk grandfather asked for it,” she shrugged as she made her way through a thick tangle of yellowing banerbyre. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It took hours to sort through what caseworkers in two states were writing to one another while I was at my grandfather’s. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Ceiling-high windows around her grandfather’s bed made the room feel like the crow’s nest on some urban pirate ship. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Every autumn we made a pilgrimage to El Puerto where my grandfather and uncles lived. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is until the man the grandfathers called Hunters Hunter got tapped on the shoulder by fingertips that couldn’t be anybody’s but hers. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather conveys his complimints and appreciates your interest in the subject. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But my grandfather sits at the head of the counter, like he’s the king. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter who your father or mother is, or who your grandfather was, or what business your family is in. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

All her life, whenever her grandfather had asked her a question he had expected a direct answer. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The thing to do was to be prepared—as my grandfather had been when it was demanded that he quote the entire United States Constitution as a test of his fitness to vote. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment, I wished I could elect Mr. Reilly as my grandfather. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Do not use that word about your grandfather ever again.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The day might come, she thought, when she would take her grandfather’s dory and row to the mouth of the New Meadows. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Without thinking, he ran in the direction of his grandfather’s hat. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He was a legacy kid: both his father and his grandfather had attended Granger. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but you’re getting up very early to go visit your grandfather.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

His manner is kindly, fatherly; he gazes out at us from the screen, looking, with his tan and his white hair and candid eyes, wise wrinkles around them, like everybody’s ideal grandfather. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hugged me again and then kissed me on the cheek and said: “I'm so glad you came. Your grandfather is too.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m proud of you,” my grandfather says to me. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

When I was your age, my grandfather bought me a ruby bracelet. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Niran, like his father and grandfather before him, was a blacksmith, and his family’s home had been built adjacent to the smithy over the course of many generations. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then he and his three sons carried in the coffin, escorted by my grandfather. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take care of her. Another thing, I have to make a trip to the store today and I’ll talk this over with your grandfather. He may be able to help some way.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“February fourteenth. I saw it at Dollar-Eight, remember? On that piece of paper you carry around everywhere. Because your grandfather doesn’t matter to you anymore.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Of course, we always felt embarrassed if our grandfather were mentioned, just as we did if God were spoken of.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could she have been friends with her grandfather without Anna’s knowing it? Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Withered rosebushes grew along the sides of the house, planted years ago by his grandfather. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

When Bobby’s maternal grandfather, Jacob Wender, died, the yellowed Times article was found among his papers. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I fly out of the building toward the bushes where my grandfather is waiting. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

I knew the judge’s cold logic had had its effect on my father and grandfather. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps that makes me a little bit as human as my grandfather. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a grandfather clock that had been skinned. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Cager Lee, the eighty-two-year-old grandfather of Jimmie Lee Jackson, killed by a state trooper two weeks earlier, could walk only a few miles each day. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would have to make a study of it, my grandfather and I. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There was his mother and his father, his grandfather, and his older brother. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I thought of the dusty box of them I’d found in her room, written by my grandfather. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But Carl’s grandfather didn’t recognize her and even backed away, knocking a chair over. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I’ve heard of it,” my grandfather says, twisting the ring on his finger. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

You can no more be black like I am black than I could be black like your grandfather was. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

My grandfather and I both take a bite. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

He opened the door for his grandfather, but he let it swing shut on the old man’s heel. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His grandfather had been very kind to him, reading Joseph stories from old books in front of a fireplace in a room filled with statues and boxes and who knew what else. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It got so about the only time I went to see my grandfather was when I had a bundle of fur to take to the store. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was old enough to be his grandfather and I was sitting there, blood gush­ing down my face, apologizing to that son of a dog.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered something his grandfather had once told him: that butterflies were a good omen. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather, who had sat through the clarinet serenades as he sat through everything, aware of their significance but unconvinced of the wisdom of getting involved, now glared at his son. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He concluded by saying he would rather have an ape for a grandfather than be descended from a man who introduced ridicule into a serious scientific discussion. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess,” said Lizzie’s grandfather slowly, “I guess I thought that every town in the state of Maine took care to find a teacher for its own.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Don’t think about it, Little Man,” his grandfather said. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I liked that Margot had decided, reflecting on the small collection of times she had “known” me, that I would have been appealing to my grandfather. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I guess that made Kronos my grandfather, but that thought was so weird I put it out of my mind. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her grandfather, Dyedka, sat in the barn on a stool and milked a goat. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“You can’t just go on electing people to government because they were friends of your father or grandfather,” she says, chewing on a bite of celery. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He finished as the grandfather clock ticked to twenty-six minutes, and he handed the paper across his father’s desk. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

They all came to my grandfather’s funeral, but while I loved their warmth and sympathy, it also felt very surreal. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“But he wasn’t the king yet when your grandfather got it, so I don’t think it counts as a royal gift.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“From the nineteen sixties. You know—the Cuban Missile Crisis. Mr. Lyons’s grandfather was the custodian back then and told him all about it. The entrance is in the custodian’s closet.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

"Your grandfather loved to see me in a brightly colored sari." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The grandfather clock chimed three times in the dark. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

When she was ready she went to the door and called my grandfather. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want his grandfather to think anything bad about him, like he was a punk or something. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Since they intend to make me their grandmother, and you already are their grandfather, that makes us—oh, well, I won’t even think about that. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the afternoon before he left, my grandfather knocked on my bedroom door and said he wanted to go fishing. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Matt Creighton’s grandfather had lived through the Revolution; Matt himself had survived the Mexican War; and Uncle Billy Jeffers, down the road, was still alive to tell tales of the War of 1812. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pendulum swings on and on in the old grandfather clock. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

All the grandfather's Caribbean fondness for a male heir and for fair Nordic looks had surfaced. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“But Papa doesn’t explain anything. He says only that Uncle was in the war with my grandfather.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Please excuse me, grandfathers. May I be allowed to clap hands?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather would have to tell me that. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I had to bury my grandfather, and soon. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a present, brought from England by friends of her grandfather’s. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

There were two dogs, one black and one white, and a grandfather clock, in the centre of the picture. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my grandfather came into the valley the mustard was so tall that a man on horseback showed only his head above the yellow flowers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was Pedro Segundo’s father and he said his grandfather had fought in the ranks of the patriots who kicked the Spaniards out of America. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hercules agreed to rescue the girl if her father would give him the horses Zeus had given his grandfather. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were tables, a grandfather clock without dial face or works. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not to my grandfathers' graves or my mother's childhood home or the site of their first official date. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

A hard man with a can of beans—a soft man with the bones of his grandfather. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily went to grab her notebook from her backpack when she saw the time on the Lees’ grandfather clock. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And then I’m in the dream again, just outside the ropes of a boxing ring, and on the canvas, in the haze and lights, my grandfather faces off against a hollowgast. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Marc’s grandfather grew up in this town, and has been a member of this congregation for his whole life. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry about me, Will. I’ve been taking care of myself a long time. I just don’t want to embarrass your grandfather, or the family any more than they’re already embarrassed.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

My grandfather looked startled, then pleased, I think, although I couldn’t tell for sure. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

With the other hand, my grandfather stabbed the knife into the bull, below its ear, then pulled down and around to the other ear. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

"My grandfather's name is Khan. I'm trying to find him and was wondering if maybe you knew him, sir, because he worships at the same mosque, I think?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

There was a tall grandfather clock, also not working. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“The Laurence boy’s grandfather! What in the world put such a thing into his head? We don’t know him!” exclaimed Meg. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says good-bye and gives the phone back to her grandfather. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

This time, when her grandfather was speaking, she stopped the tape. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I want to make the shadow pass over all the clean, startled faces, all those who believe in president grandfathers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had probably seen him before at Tres Marias, on one of her summer journeys with her grandfather. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather said Ruthanne will meet you at the station in Greenwood,” said Mom. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

‘Now place the ping-pong table on top of the four grandfather clocks,’ Mr Tibbs whispered. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before leaving, Ashima had stood, her head lowered, under her late grandfather’s portrait, asking him to bless her journey. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

That my grandfather had to is both fascinating and horrifying. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Was this what my grandfather had meant for me to find? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“How is your grandfather? When did you come? Where are you staying?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather leads me down a side street to a group of buildings. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“Actually, this was my grandfather’s wallet. And this”—he held up the paper—“is his birthday.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Every Friday night and Saturday morning at Sabbath services in the synagogue, I would stand next to my grandfather, bowing my head when he did and following his lead through the prayers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I wondered how much longer Emma had continued writing to my grandfather without receiving a reply, and what he’d done with her letters. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, Emma. That majorly sucks. My grandfather—Abuelito—died a few years ago, and it was awful. I still miss him. Sorry, that probably doesn’t make you feel any better.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I expect Trub to smile or wink at me like he usually does, but this time my grandfather just sighs. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

To me, Gram said, ‘Your grandfather nearly killed the egg man over that letter.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Years later, Joshua Colemans granddaughters would recall their grandfather saying that from their first meeting, he had a premonition that Jimmy Goble would not live a long life. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

As we saw every Sunday arriving at Parkway Gardens for dinner, my grandfather lived with the bitter residue of his own dashed dreams. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My grandfather had described it a hundred times, but in his stories the house was always a bright, happy place—big and rambling, yes, but full of light and laughter. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you stay in the country like your father and grandfather?” the patron asked him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see what that has to do with your crazy grandfather,” María said weakly. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Who else will care for us in our old age? Who will run the farm and keep your grandfather’s dream alive?” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“That’s a lot of greats. I mean, can any grandfather be that good?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

We’d been in foster care for just a few months when my grandfather appeared on Miss Doris and Mr. Leo’s doorstep. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In that moment I understood my grandfather perfectly. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I could feel my grandfather’s presence in the room but he said nothing. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

My grandfather works there, and we have a thing we do to bring some happy to the people who don't want to be there, but have to be. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Her grandfather’s face had been frozen into an open-mouthed mask of terror, like one of those poor souls who glimpses Medusa and turns to stone. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

No one could have guessed she’d spend the rest of her life with Day—first as a cousin growing up in their grandfather’s home, then as his wife. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“So I can continue my research,” my grandfather explains. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Despite his speech paralysis, my grandfather remained a vital person. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“This shouldn’t take long,” my grandfather says, holding up our picnic cooler. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

And many a time he wished he’d never had a father, nor a grandfather, nor a great-grandfather, if Miss Lark was going to make such a fuss of it. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Instead he asked, “What is the news from Ensenada? I’ve been gone two years now, working up here for my grandfather.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I believe in the words of my grandfather. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Read all the Russians, and then reread them,” his grandfather had said. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Ruthanne left, my grandfather said, “Son, I’m sure going to miss having you around the house.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The next day, your grandfather and I were married. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Know your place, McManus. Don’t be like your grandfather. Be like your dad.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After our reunion at Uncle Sammie’s, my grandfather was sent to jail for selling drugs. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It was dark, but after a few seconds Genie’s eyes adjusted and he could see his grandfather. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The list of things she didn’t know about her grandfather seemed to get longer by the minute. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

His grandfather put his arm around him and they started out of the park. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grandfather would take a huge breath and then use the dock posts to push himself down under the surface. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s going to be okay. Grampa told me—” “Your grandfather!” he said quickly and too loud. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Real big spender, huh?” my grandfather says, looking around at the linoleum floor, the plastic flower arrangements. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

That same January 8, my grandfather suffered the first of his thirteen strokes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“My grandmother asked me to take a photograph of my grandfather’s name,” he said. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He remembers when his paternal grandfather died, sometime in the seventies, remembers his mother screaming when she walked in on his father, who was shaving off all his hair with a disposable razor. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Leo hadn’t made the connection before, but he had a vague memory of older family members calling his grandfather Sam Junior. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Papa Georges isn’t my grandfather,” said the girl. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

At one point during his speech he turned to Huxley and asked him if he was related to an ape on his grandfathers side or on his grandmothers. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And my mom kept shushing my grandfather, who kept talking about how many black people were in the school. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Next Moon Orchid removed all the photographs, except for those of the grandmother and grandfather, from the shelves, dressers, and walls. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather put the Victrola in the corner. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was either that or admit that my grandfather had made sense. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour ago she had declined to go to Meeting, saying airily that she and her grandfather had seldom attended divine service, except for the Christmas Mass. What an uproar she had caused! The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“That was the voice of my grandfather. You heard him?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She stood up on tiptoe to speak to her grandfather, and he lifted her firmly into the car, talking to her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing the news, my grandmother and grandfather confronted my mother. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Jacob Solomon was my grandfather. I never knew him.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

When she was little, her grandfather had told her that if she counted a hundred telephone poles in a row, an electric fairy would grant her one wish. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

His grandfather was probably packing up his stuff now. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

My grandfather had died the year before, of old age. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I wonder why he hid the robe and cape when his grandfather must have seen the helmet, but I don’t ask, of course. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could say it, watch my grandfather and know. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

A love thing with her mother, the way her grandfather had with Miss Fran—through laughter. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was exactly the paradise my grandfather had described. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

His grandfather was a Vietnam War veteran, a U.S. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what’s going on here,” the grandfather said in alarm. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Your uncle Charley’s father and grandfather were custodians at Riverview. ‘Someone employed to clean and maintain a building’ is only the second definition of that word. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather died today, Ivanito. I know you don’t remember him but he loved you very much.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather is stunned into a momentary silence, then says, “Einstein published a long time ago, too. Are you gonna pooh-pooh him?” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The materials for research were all around me, in the form of books assembled by your grandfather. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the title page, beneath his grandfather’s signature, Ashoke had written his own. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“High Back Bone, but he was called Hump,” his grandfather replied. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Behind me I heard her say, “Sorry to hear about your grandfather.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

He was trained to be a carpenter by her family, the house he lived in was given to his grandfather by her family. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kit had been her grandfather’s name for her, and something in Mercy’s smile had reached straight across the gulf so that suddenly she wanted to hear the name spoken again. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Troops of them in the air, armed and shining. They haven’t been so common in the last years, though in my grandfather’s time they passed through this world often, or so he used to say.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go straight to your grandfather’s house—take a rest. We will be in as soon as this field is done and the tools collected!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cynthia looking at her grandfather, her Cinderella, her cinder block. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

And then one of the last things my grandfather said came to me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Her father’s parents died when he was young; her mother’s parents never married, and she never met her grandfather. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“You mean that old brown hat? Your grandfather’s hat? As far as I’m concerned, officer, you can keep it. And you!” she said to Clayton. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

My grandfather ticks through the recipes with a critical eye, then pulls one out. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“Then what kind of a grandfather are you going to be?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1952, my grandfather, son of a Presbyterian minister and now a Presbyterian minister himself, became the first black minister in the history of the Dutch Reformed Church. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

No more birds or buzzing flies or grandfather clock marking time. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather is definitely more stubborn than she is. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Big sisters, grandfathers, adorable toddlers who might want to stand near the radiance of the Queen Bride—gone. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But my grandfather says he doesn't need our prayers. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Your grandmother might refuse my help. She and your grandfather have never held me in much esteem. But if she will accept my assistance in locating Stan, I will give it.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Then I came to July, and there pasted over the whole month was a picture of my grandmother and my grandfather and my Aunt Margaret. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Starting at my grandfather’s mill, I told everything that had happened. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will never have people feel about me the way they feel about Marc’s grandfather. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

They didn't stay long, just long enough to persuade their mother to let them stay at their grandfather's for supper. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

At thirteen, she was, as her grandfather liked to remind her, one year older than the century, and so a good deal wiser. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

My grandfather was a kind and gentle man who made a very modest living working at a printing press. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“When my great- uncle sold the house, after the war, he traveled back to Saint-Malo, and he salvaged the one remaining recording of my grandfather. It was about the moon.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When the wise old grandfather found out, instead of raising a row as had been feared, he commented, dying with laughter, that it was the natural destiny of literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

On Saturday morning Jimmy awoke to the sound of his grandfather Nyles’s voice. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I thought of him like a wise grandfather, who was still in impeccably great shape and good enough to take on any opponent on the strip if need be. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

After a moment he looked up at his grandfather. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

For an awful moment I was afraid we’d come to the wrong island or, worse yet, that the home was just another thing my grandfather had invented. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Yes, without guarantees, once free I could probably use my abilities to shed light on the location of your grandfather.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It feels good to walk with him, even if he does look like a grandfather. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I remembered something my grandfather had told me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “Don’t tell your grandfather, but I don’t mind a few hells and damns. Besides, that egg man snored to beat the band.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

My grandfather had a dream to follow his father’s footsteps and join the ministry. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

One Sunday during the weekly family dinner, my mother caught her preparing my grandfather's whiskey-and-water with holy water from the jar. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He went in to the King, my grandfather, and demanded that my mother break olT the engagement with her paramour. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Kitty lived with her parents above her grandfather’s shop. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we get home, my grandfather heads straight for the kitchen. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

So much candy that it's hard to choose until our grandfather says, Get what you want but I'm getting myself some ice cream. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Did I tell you about your grandfather, King?” she asks me. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

When they drop us off, Raj leans out the window and calls to my grandfather, “You still have to pay me.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“Now he can spend day after day marching in parades. If it hadn’t been for my grandfather, he’d have to work like whitefolks.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What are you telling him, Didu?" she asks, looking up at her grandfather's picture. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t like my grandfather very much, but he keeps quiet about it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I never again saw my grandfather, but eventually his clothing was found on the shore, washed up on the dark side of the lake. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

That summer and fall, Bobby also spent time playing against his grandfather’s septuagenarian cousin Jacob Schonberg, who also lived in Brooklyn. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

One of them was leaping up and down; the other, an old scaly grandfather of the sewers, stood up, with his pink hands against the bars, and fiercely snuffed the air. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Like my grandfather’s picture of the boy lifting what was certainly a boulder made from plaster. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

For a while I thought “the loop” could be a street in Circle Village—a neighborhood that was nothing but looping cul-de-sacs—and that “Emerson” might be a person my grandfather had sent letters to. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Sohrab’s mom’s eyebrows formed perfect arches above her eyes, threatening to disappear into her hair, as my grandfather screamed at my grandmother for no reason I could understand. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The grandfather was dressed in a black broadcloth suit and he wore kid congress gaiters and a black tie on a short, hard collar. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. This was on Saturday night after Mr. McAllister was here. And if he had heard, he’d have said so as soon as he got home. Your grandfather is a very direct man, Will.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I began to write with the help of my grandfather, whose memory remained intact down to the last second of his ninety years. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If my grandfather had been alive today he would have been one hundred and sixty-four years old. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather seemed so small and defeated then, bowed under the weight of history and the burdens of the future. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

A tall grandfather clock sat at the foot of the stairs, pecking away at the hour as if a crow trapped inside were trying to break loose. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my grandfather seems almost relieved to see the building, like it’s an old friend. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

My own grandfather thought “a hitler” was a kind of army tank that was helping the Germans win the war. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m Grandson, actually. My grandfather started the shop.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

No one, since she had come to America, had ever really wanted to hear about grandfather, except Reverend Bulkeley who had only been impressed by his royal favors. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

None of the pleasantness was directed at him because of his father, as it was back home, or his grandfather’s memory, as it was in Danville. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather is now almost completely recovered from the strokes he had back in ’89, and has a much easier time talking. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He followed his grandfather’s hat and the Beat Boys down the steps to the main platform. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

It was a Yiddish phrase her grandfather used ail the time and which she’d never understood before. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father only went up to the second grade because his father, my grandfather, needed help farming and taking care of the cattle. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When I awoke, sun streaming through my window, I realized it wasn’t just my grandfather’s life that Miss Peregrine had saved, but mine, too, and my father’s. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The way his grandfather broke it down, plain. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“I have a grandfather named Scooter,” I said. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

His clothes and haircut—Mao suits and a short military trim with no sideburns— were the same as his grandfather’s when he seized control of North Korea in 1945. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Then my grandfather came walking through the double doors. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He didn’t look particularly sorry about my grandfather’s brain tumor. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The last photo—the last thing he’d ever sent her, in fact—showed my grandfather at middle age, holding a little girl. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

My ancestor's desire to join them led to trumped-up murder charges for which he was executed—or, anyway, that’s what my grandfather told me. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My grandfather had taught me to note the location of every specimen, and I had done so, right up to the one moment—the only moment—when it truly mattered. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t tell his parents about the drawing class, something they would consider frivolous at this stage of his life, in spite of the fact that his own grandfather was an artist. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Just as your grandfather taught you. These are good omens.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Your grandfather would like to see you," she said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Kino’s grandfather had brought it from Nayarit, and he had given it to Kino’s father, and so it had come to Kino. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father was a wealthy banker in Birmingham; his mother was the daughter of Erasmus Darwin, the polymath poet and doctor, who was also Charles Darwin's grandfather. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Most days, I am in here with my grandfather, holding his hand while he sleeps fluffing pillows and telling him stories about my friends back home. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

They shared a certain nightmarish quality with my grandfather’s old photos, especially the ones he’d kept hidden in the bottom of his cigar box, as if somehow they’d all come from the same batch. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I knew, somehow, that this had been my grandfather’s room. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But his grandfather had recently gone blind, and he had requested Ashoke’s company specifically, to read him The Statesman in the morning, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy in the afternoon. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “His grandfather loved animals more than he loved people.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The old families, whose grandfathers and fathers worked at the Ford plant, were fleeing the neighborhood as if it was the second coming of the black plague. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She had supposed this moment would come one day, but she had always had the irrational hope that somehow her grandfather’s influence would protect her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My grandfather’s coming to pick me up in an hour.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ruthanne,” my grandfather said, “I’m sure that between the two of us, we can make a good dent in this splendid meal, but whatever we don’t eat, you can send with him on the train.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“My grandfather bought that watch in the 1940s,” Mr. Julian says. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When my grandfather retired a few years ago, Papi, being the oldest, was put in charge. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“And then she gives me kisses from the absent ones. That’s my mother and my father and my grandfather. I get four kisses.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

We all stood there, staring at my grandfather, who in turn contemplated the telegram. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Henrietta’s grandfather was already raising another grandchild that one of his daughters had left behind after delivering him on the home-house floor. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Your grandfather was 28 when I met him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather made some poor decisions that hurt people, your father included. But he’s not the only one.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

He’s like a grandfather who wants to fix up two young kids that he just knows would make a great couple. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

A bunch of kids who were in detention with my grandfather shoot him high-five signs when they pass. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have to wait. He’s treating your grandfather. At least we can clean the kid up,” said Rosa. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grandfather did not look like he believed her, but his son urged him to come inside and prepare, and he guiltily accepted their words. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather has the foolish notion that we should go into trade,” explained Mother. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He almost gave my grandfather a stroke, but in a few minutes he realized that the two of them had a common goal: to rescue me. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra dug into her pocket and pulled out the scrap of paper her grandfather had given her that morning. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“He has been like this for weeks now,” my grandfather said, “beyond hope.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the one thing about my grandfather is that he is the most patient man in the world. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her grandfather John—the son of William Ford and his African concubine—became a preacher. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

My grandfather slapped a hand on Dad’s shoulder. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“My grandfather always says that’s what books are for,” Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had come to the island to solve my grandfather’s mystery, and in doing so I had discovered my own. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“You’d have an easier time talking to your grandfather if you could speak to him in Farsi. He was never very comfortable in English, even before.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When the chair was a pile of firewood and the sword dull, I fell to my knees by the side of my grandfather’s body. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or at least a tax attorney like their grandfather. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather had never told Jimmy the reason for his dismissal from Ford, but Zizmo had a good idea why it might have happened. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"A young mustached man?" the old grandfather suggests. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The thing is, my grandfather’s presence in my life had been purely photonic up to that point. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Most of all, we thank you for bringing the family together,” our grandfather picks up, “to mourn and to celebrate those who gave their lives for all of us.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I was thinking of the first person who'd mentioned anything like fate in my presence, my grandfather. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather, Sam’l Hamilton, loved good writing, and he knew it too, and he had some bluestocking daughters, among them my mother. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather pulls out the papers and shoves them into Raj’s hands. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

But she saw that her grandfather didn’t know the woman. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Whenever Ms. Byrd worked a double shift at the hospital on a Friday or Saturday night, Clayton and his grandfather snuck out to find the Bluesmen here or there, but mostly at Washington Square Park. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

"You start Saul, and end up Paul," my grandfather had often said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited for my grandfather to say something. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Not long after, Red Corn’s grandfather dropped dead; he was forty-six years old. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She began to slip them one by one through her fingers, exactly as her father had done, and her grandfather, and her great-grandfather, performing a family legacy of precise, codified, thorough worrying. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Good Lord, she thought, my own grandfather fought in it. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Rainie started telling me how stingy and crooked my grandfather was. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flashed to my grandfather’s ashen face, his lips just barely moving, uttering those very words. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

After Miss Peregrine had dismissed a few more about my grandfather, the children turned to other subjects. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I sat now facing the portrait of Frederick Douglass, feeling a sudden piety, remembering and refusing to hear the echoes of my grandfather's voice. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather is not a very nice man.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Like my own, similarly beaked nose at those times, my grandfather’s nose went on alert. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The signs of our elopement were subtle: My parents’ wedding picture was gone, as was the grainy photograph of my grandfather and King Nader Shah stand­ing over the dead deer. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Beside her, my grandfather smiled under his mustache as if he were saying, “How about a game of horseshoes?” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph remembered his grandfather’s house being cluttered, but he didn’t know it was a junk shop. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Kendra sat at breakfast across from her grandfather. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Most days I was the one who went to my grandfather's barn to carry home a pitcher of milk from his cow. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He wore a black wool suit and a black overcoat that had once belonged to his grandfather. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Through the smoke, Leo managed to find his grandfather, who was choking Leo grabbed his hand and pulled him forwards, but just then, there was a terrible sound and something broke above him and...” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He did not hear his brothers and sisters laughing on the rooftop, or see the tiny, dusty, cluttered room in which his grandfather read. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It couldn’t have been a coincidence, which meant that the photos my grandfather had shown me—that he’d sworn were of children he’d known in this house—had really come from this house. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I didn't know what my grandfather had meant, but I was ready to test his advice. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran back to the car where her grandfather waited. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

That same day my grandfather wanted us to leave the country. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather grills my mom with questions I can tell she finds annoying: Does she still have her college transcripts? The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

My grandfather, not knowing he was soon to be fired, had splurged on four tickets to The Minotaur, playing at the Family. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My own thoughts now turn to the last few months, the sight of my grandfather’s diminishment, the awkwardness between us as I grew taller than him and he seemed to shrink into himself, into age. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

My mom says that despite their marital woes and my grandfather's wandering eye, they remained in love till the very end. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My grandfather recognized that desperation and knew that now, in his forced retirement, this was the place for him. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

This is the world Daisy’s grandfather John was born into. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

And about time the first rays of sunlight hit the back steps, I sat down out there with my grandfather. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When your grandfather left me forty years ago, I erased all of his writing. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

For years now, driving past Rubsamen Medical Supply, my grandfather had noticed the unchanging window display of hernia truss, neck brace, and crutches. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His parents’ grandfather clock still ticked away after all these years with a maniacal endurance. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Even at the highest tides, it doesn’t get more than waist-deep. Back then the tides might have been lower. We used to play in here as boys. Me and your grandfather. Sometimes your great-uncle too.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Jimmy asked, after his grandfather had paused for several long moments. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

On the one hand, he sounds just like my grandfather. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The grandfather wrote that the twins could come, but only if Henry took in the older girl as well. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He knew his grandfather’s body had been buried in the cemetery. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Afterward, Milton told my grandfather to stop bringing me down to the diner for lunch. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

This past summer, her grandfather had married my grandmother. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather was the most famous collector in the whole world. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

My grandfather walks into the hall and gives Ben an icy look. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

I saw my grandfather watching me from his upstairs window. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I merely postulated that you call your grandfather ‘Grim’ because he's grim. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I instantly recognized her as the “levitating girl” from my grandfather’s pictures, only now she wasn’t levitating. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Her grandfather droned on and on about the plagues and the exodus from Egypt. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather got it all sugared up for you.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She was buried with her people in the cemetery behind First Congregational, straight in front of the headstone that marked the family plot, not far from her grandfather of the perfect picket fence. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

My grandfather just looks at him and stuffs another forkful in his mouth. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Then the orchestra played excerpts from Dvorak's New World Symphony and I kept hearing "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" resounding through its dominant theme—my mother's and grandfather's favorite spiritual. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

His accent wasn’t American, but my grandfather couldn’t quite place it. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

My grandfather engaged a special company to come in with polishing machines and clean the house; they washed the windows, painted, and disinfected the place from top to bottom until it was livable again. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m your grandfather, I love you, I’m sorry? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I knew some things, some horrible things, about my grandfather. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sweet peas and collards, green peppers and cukes lettuce and melon, berries and peaches and one day when I'm able, my grandfather says, I'm gonna figure out how to grow myself a pecan tree. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even the second wife of Jacob Wender, Bobby’s grandfather, was investigated. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather’s pioneering ascent to the ministry was met with many cheers but some threats as well. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather left us in quite a predicament.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I take a deep breath and say, “I met my grandfather today.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The only difference is the tattoo shop had posters of the outside of people's bodies, and my grandfather's office had posters of the insides of people's bodies. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He tapped some more with his pen, as loudly as the ticking of the grandfather clock, and finally gathered all four together, arranged them neatly, and handed them back to Turner. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather never felt the need to explain. Maybe the ghosts were happy that one family had survived. Maybe they were enjoying the afterlife. They’re ghosts. Who can say?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Charles’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, had made fun of Unitarianism, saying it was a “featherbed to catch a falling Christian.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Red Corn did not know more than these fragmentary details relayed to her by relatives, and she hoped that I could investigate her grandfather’s death. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

After the visit, Joseph had returned with his parents to their home in the deserts of Saudi Arabia, and within a few months, his grandfather died of a heart attack. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When referring to your grandmother or grandfather in Farsi, you simply put the word "Maman" or "Baba" in front of their first name, but my grandmother primarily went by her middle name. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Dale is a regular man. A second cousin of your grandfather. A man he trusts.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“My mother was the daughter of a chief who sought to overthrow my grandfather.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I mean, the way he dresses and all? Those polyester pants? He reminds me of my grandfather.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

His grandfather, who lived a few blocks away, was a sewer in the garment trade, doing piecework out of his house. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

How many times had her grandfather cautioned her to think before she flew off the handle? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather waves a hand at Raj’s earring. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

After a while, though, things went back to normal, except that Sherm’s grandfather was gone. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“He’s totally fed up with her. His father and grandfather were both custodians here. Someone from theLyons family has always worked on this plot of land, ever since the seventeen hundreds.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, grandfather,” they answered in a scattered chorus, and he said again, “Do you study the Four Books?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“The old man watering his lawn the night my grandfather died. That was you, too.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I broke out in goosebumps, remembering the white-eyed neighbor I’d seen watering his overgrown lawn the night my grandfather was killed. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Okay. Let’s say you have an evil grandfather.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Those guys were old enough to be her grandfathers, but they showed her respect. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I think about my grandfather and the jellyfish and feel a little jealous. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Your grandfather and I are the caretakers of this estate. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

My mom says it must be so frustrating because my grandfather used to be such an active man, but he never lets it bother him. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

My grandfather was just like my dad—sweet and serene. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Classic” is definitely a good way to describe my grandfather. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Every evening at quitting time my exhausted grandfather would come out of the factory and tramp across to an adjacent building housing the Ford English School. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

That way, he wouldn’t have to be around my grandfather. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was a place to stay away from, not a place where a young girl should lay about and sip broth, even if her grandfather was mooning over her nurse. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather had given me Mr. Darwin’s book to read. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She called her son—Prince Jones—“Rocky” in honor of her grandfather, who went by “Rock.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

‘My mother played on the floor of this kitchen. My grandfather was but a young man when he built this house, and I, a grandson, have better right to it doubtless than an elder brother.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood there and I forced myself to look at his eyes again, finding my grandfather gone, leaving only the searching calm. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rico protested, but his grandfather pushed him out of the room and closed the door after him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

You may be like your grandfather in this, I don’t know, but certainly both you and your father resemble him very much physically. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

When the waitress brings our meals, my grandfather’s order takes up half the table. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

His grandfather, the first Victor, had presided over Durham’s turn-of-the-century White Supremacy Club. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to be like my grandfather in all ways. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Junie, since you ate already, will you keep your grandfather company?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

And it also means food,” my grandfather tells me. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I knew it in the reckless way he took me with him down into the place where his great-grandfather and his grandfather and his father had met their women before him. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within the week your grandfather learned that Clytie had been right, or was right now anyway, though it was Judith who died first.” Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I’m sure my sweet grandfather wouldn’t mind helping me, I doubt very seriously that he knows how to use a pad. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Hang on, grandfather,” said Pong as the teenager ran off to find help. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Pretending to be talking about baboons, we proceeded to compare the mothers, fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers of the white boys to the various baboons in the cage. epithet after another. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I almost lost the courage to refuse again, but I thought of my landlord grandfather, of Dad detained at the theater. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew just where it was, that precious set that had belonged to Deydey’s grandfather, the man who had taught him this chimookoman game. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I never really knew my grandfather, but the lawn mower had come from him. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Digger was down in the dumps that day about his grandfather having to let go of the place, and we could see how it was eating him up. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Summers he would be taken to Europe to see his grandfather. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

There were only a few men among them, cripples and cowards and grandfathers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“My grandfather was sick for a long time,” Lena says at last. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The name of the island was changed to Aegina in honor of the maiden, and her son Aeacus was the grandfather of Achilles, who was called sometimes Aeacides, descendant of Aeacus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You can be as great a man as your father," the grandfather said. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

And that is precisely where Marc’s family story begins—with Nina’s grandfather, the serf who bought his freedom from figuring out how to color beet sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

"You can be president, you were born here," the grandfather crooned. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

His audible, almost desperate breaths reminded me of my grandfather when he was dying of lung cancer. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“When my grandfather was my age, he had dropped out of school, crossed the border, and was supporting his family. So, no.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Okay. Yes. Let’s say your grandfather was alive, and he was evil.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

His own father, my grandfather, was a fairly prosperous merchant who owned a store in Sarpsborg and traded in just about everything from cheese to chicken-wire. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cynthia peeled one of the stamps from the book, stuck it on her forehead, then made a funny face at her grandfather. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Trying to reclaim the drama of his gambling days, my grandfather started playing the West Side numbers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Framed there in the gray, early morning light of the door, my grandfather seemed to look from his eyes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were both born on the floor of the home-house like their father, grandmother, and grandfather before them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Here, on a bend in the river, below overhanging trees, was the pool, dug out in Briony’s grandfather’s time. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I lost a good friend when my grandfather passed. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I even felt safe from grandfather, whose deathbed curse usually spoiled my triumphs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before he reached them, my grandfather emerged from the house. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He said, “Very much. Did I ever tell you my Sidi—grandfather—was half Bedouin? Once when I was small he took me to visit, like today.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” she replies, “I’m Irish Catholic. I think my great grandfather was Jewish.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He wore an elegant black suit and black tie, and his demeanor was irresistibly cheerful, which put my grandfather at ease. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“No, no, drink some more and give some to your brothers and sister,” the kind grandfather said. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

We see the dim orange of my grandfather's cigarette, as he makes his way down the darkening road. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“You were only two years old,” my grandfather said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

My grandfather gathered his son in his arms and cried. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My bedroom door slams open, and my grandfather is standing there dressed head to toe in black. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

There’s a grandfather clock in the hallway, which doles out time, and then the door to the motherly front sitting room, with its flesh tones and hints. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Do you know if your grandfather has a history of mental illness?" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

My grandfather lay facedown in a bed of creeper, his legs sprawled out and one arm twisted beneath him as if he’d fallen from a great height. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

After a night in a motel in Casper, Wyoming, Jimmy and his grandfather drove east. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Now, in this stem man facing her, so totally different from her grandfather, Kit sensed the same quality of directness, and out of an instinctive respect she gave the only honest answer she could. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Once I thought my grandfather incapable of thoughts about humanity, but I was wrong. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And word went out that Darwin’s champion, Huxley, would rather have an ape for a grandfather than a bishop. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she wasn't writing to my grandfather, she was probably training bougainvillea vines or painting watercolor landscapes. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

My grandfather’s voice shakes me back to the present. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Like her mother, her grandfather put a padlock on the door, and kept the key around his neck in the same suede pouch where he carried Clara’s teeth. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather did missionary work in Iceland. I don’t think people in Iceland call out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’And how did you get yellow paint on the tip of your ear? Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

In one corner an imposing grandfather clock ticks loudly, and when it chimes the hour, I nearly slide off in surprise. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

When I was six, my grandfather had inserted a medicine into my skin that protected me from snakebite and enabled me to control snakes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

At least that’s what she told his paternal grandfather, who is a terrible man—but that’s not a story of any importance here. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We stood like that in the darkness for a while, me and this teenaged old woman, this rather beautiful girl who had loved my grandfather when he was the age I am now. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It whips out a tongue and my grandfather dodges it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The grandfather clock struck noon, and the whistle at the Snapfinger Volunteer Fire Department finished its blowing as I sat down at the table with my family. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He looked concerned, looked just like my grandfather had always looked. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

And whenever things went well for me I remembered my grandfather and felt guilty and uncomfortable. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See, he had a bad habit of doing the very first thing that popped into his mind, no matter how foolish,” my grandfather said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

When Baba was six, a thief walked into my grandfather’s house in the middle of the night. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather was murdered when I was a teenager, but it didn't seem to matter much to the world outside our family. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But I really do have a grandfather, and his name really is Scooter. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

My grandfather is asleep on his back, his enormous stomach piled two feet in the air. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We go out to the garage and my grandfather does a slow tour. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

I kind of wanted to go watch Iranian soap operas with my grandfather and improve my Farsi too. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

And yet pocket watches do not spontaneously self-assemble, or evolve, in slow stages, on their own, from, say, grandfather clocks. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard his grandfather’s words now—our apples don’t fall far from the tree—and he felt sick and afraid all over again. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

My grandfather’s good mood accompanied him all the way to the trolley stop. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Could it have been the same island where my grandfather lived as a boy? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you are intoxicated after all. I am returning to my home from a visit to my grandfather’s house.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly after Miss Fran died, Cynthia was helping her grandfather clean the apartment. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“My grandfather died four months ago,” Kit explained. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I was anxious to meet my grandfather, but I was a little scared too. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

While the security guard is distracted, my grandfather will use his key card to get in the back door and grab the T. melvinus. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

My very first memory is blood, slopping from the throat of a terrified bull, and my grandfather—red-handed—reaching for my face. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Qendrim Bushi’s soccer idol was his grandfather, once a famous goalkeeper at the highest level of play in Kosovo, and later, a well-known referee and the author of an Albanian-language soccer rule book. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Samuel was only in the third grade, but he always seemed wise and old when he talked, kind of like my grandfather. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told everyone who would listen that his grandfather kept Belgians, huge working horses, and boarded horses for others. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But before my grandfather can come up with an answer, another memory comes careening across the ice. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But I had always felt protected by my father, my grandfather, my brothers, and my church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You heard your lord grandfather. Hush! You know nothing.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was something about how Clayton’s grandfather looked to him, sitting in that chair. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

My preacher grandfather traveled a lot in those days. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When we were all getting ready to leave, I walked up to my grandfather and gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheek. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather and Raj run up to the car and jump in. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

I can’t tell you how bad it was last year since my brother was on the field graduating instead of up in the bleachers making my grandfather stop. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“So...where have you been? I mean, Mama never told me I had a grandfather living in Brooklyn.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Little Charlie sat very still on the edge of the bed, staring at his grandfather. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Reverend had entrusted me with adult-size jobs, and my grandfather had instilled within me long ago a deep sense of sacred honor in doing God’s work. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even after I stopped believing them, there was still something magical about my grandfather. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

His people came from here, his grandfather and his grandmother. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was my grandfather, and he left those things for me,” Clayton said. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I hated my grandfather, just as I hated all of Chairman Mao’s enemies. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that night I dreamed of my grandfather and awoke depressed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the sixth-floor landing, they turn left, and he pushes open the door to what was once her grandfather’s room. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When my grandfather was alive, he kept making additions whenever they had more children, but he was never able to keep up. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The second burden of that summer came in the form of my grandfather. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

His grandfather, the great theologian Jonathan Edwards, had once said that we were all depraved creatures, mere spiders hanging precariously over a never-ending fire. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Whenever my grandfather came to Birmingham, my bedroom became the guest room, and I gladly gave it up for him. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We arrive not long before my grandfather is about to take his last breaths, breathless ourselves from our first ride in an airplane. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I eat these foods because they remind me of Japan. And my grandfather.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

My grandfather was a short man, no more than five foot six, but his presence dominated every room he entered. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

My grandfather stood directly behind her, waiting his turn to get at the grandchildren. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Likewise, out on Lake St. Clair, my grandfather has been looking out for the Purple Gang, when in reality the monster is right next to him, at the wheel of the car. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The grandfather clock ticked time away in the upstairs hallway. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As she talked of the church, I thought of your grandfather, the one you know, and how his first intellectual adventures were found in the recitation of Bible passages. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Carl’s grandfather watched game shows on television the whole time, except when he occasionally got up to tell us we needed to hurry because he was late for work. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t his own exalted pedigree—Erasmus as grandfather, Darwin as cousin—proof that genius ran in families? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I told you, my grandfather—” She slapped the letter out of my hands. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

We all met my sister in the parking lot, and the first one to hug her was my grandfather. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

With every blow Kuba swung back and forth like the pendulum of a grandfather clock. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Kendra was about to follow when she noticed an envelope on a table near her grandfather. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I thought about when Junior and I had visited Kabati and would take walks with our grandfather on paths around the coffee farms by the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Born the grandson of a preacher in Hickory, North Carolina, in 1928, Douglas Moore decided to follow his grandfather into the Methodist ministry and in 1951 he enrolled as a divinity student at Boston University. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Monkeyman brought them right over to where we were and I recognized his grandfather. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Was he—my grandfather—was he like ...” “Like us?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Before she even answered my mother, she called out to my grandfather, “Joy and the kids are moving up to New York!” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The grandfather clock in the hall bonged loudly, four times, startling us both. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather, a respected judge, confronted him, but the thief stabbed him in the throat, killing him instantly—and robbing Baba of a father. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about his grandfather, and how nice he’d been, and Joseph wondered what happened to people after they died. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And, gazing up, I suddenly can see things about my grandfather I should be too young to see. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The room had been his father’s when he’d been a boy, but aside from a few books on a shelf, it was clear his grandfather had cleaned all his things out. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“If you want to see her again, I suggest you let things quiet down. Talk to your grandfather. He understands how these things work.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he didn’t believe me, he could just ask my grandfather. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start going through my flash cards, mostly so I don’t have to sit here and be awkward with Sam’s grandfather, who is definitely listening to every word Sam is saying to her mom. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Faster even than the time she flew down the stairs having seen for the first time what the disease had done to her grandfather. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Last night, he was home well before curfew,” Pop speaks up, and it is strange to hear my grandfather lie. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Worst-case scenarios included my grandfather running naked in the street, wielding a hunting rifle, foaming at the mouth on the front lawn, or lying in wait with a blunt object in hand. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Maddox enjoys a celebration, and your grandfather is an accommodating host,” Lena said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“I spent more than fifteen minutes at my grandfathers house,” I said finally. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, my grandfather had proposed to my grandmother in much the same way, after seeing her dance in a village competition. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Both my mother and my grandfather looked up. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Three weeks later, on April 17, the founding grandfather finally went to his Maker. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The knife scar on his cheek was a pretty strong clue that the men my grandfather was chasing were not model citizens. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

‘Your grandfather was one of the most important collectors of his day,' Joseph Hooper had said, showing the boy round. ‘He was known and respected the world over. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

And he shook off his grandfather’s hands with an impatient motion, for though grateful for the sympathy, his man’s pride could not bear a man’s pity. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be. It was not a party for young people. As caretaker, your grandfather would never drink, but I can’t vouch for the satyrs. We’ll have a proper party before you leave us.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

On the long drive back to Fentress, my grandfather and I had energy to spare. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

And there were his mother and father smiling at him again, and one of his grandfathers nodding happily. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Lee Lee is writing a poem for Mrs. Baker, and Sam is writing a note to her grandfather. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I thought back to the stories my grandfather used to tell me. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

His father and grandfather were Crimson, and even if they hadn’t gone there, Dave was top ten of our class academically. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The next image is parking outside of the stone walls of my grandfather’s courtyard. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

My mom wanted to order sushi, but my grandfather said the person who has the most degrees should get to choose. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

A fireplace opposite the bed roared with a warm and inviting fire, and a memory came to him of a strange, dreamlike week visiting his grandfather in America when he was six. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Her grandfather’s sermons went out the window when Alba set eyes on Miguel one unforgettable rainy afternoon in the cafeteria of the university. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather did, too, only he was even more extreme. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As I did, my mind raced backward almost an entire year, to when the DiAngelos first bought the property from Digger’s grandfather. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

But my grandfather insisted that God was calling him to serve through the ministry. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The shopping excursion was the first of many encounters between my grandfather and this man, who would become a mentor, teacher, and friend to him. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Every morning, still in her pajamas, she went to her grandfather’s room. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Way back before Mami was even born, Chucha had just appeared at my grandfather's doorstep one night, begging to be taken in. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“My grandfather used to say, I remember, that anything but first-run syrup was an insult to his appetite. I think people have forgotten how good these things can be.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“But he paid her not the smallest attention till her grandfather’s death made her mistress of this fortune.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“We have no alternative. Time is short. We can only hope that by rescuing your grandfather, we can shed more light on what caused Dale’s condition and find a way to reverse the curse. Come.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It was packed with a hundred or more letters, all from my grandfather. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

My grandfather hesitated—not only did he not know the man but also because it was too cold for small talk. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She saw that not a single one of the frock coats understood what might happen if her grandfather decided to stamp his foot on the ground. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Something clicks in my mind and I see that Patrice is very similar to my grandfather. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was just my luck that my grandfather had been there to witness my humiliation. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Tyler has the middle name Jacob to honor the memory of my grandfathers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Did you see the statue with the top part missing? It looks like my grandfather when his back goes out!” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

I see her dancing with Justin’s grandfather, because he’s said he wants a dance with a pretty girl. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He had been an older brother of Lord Rickard, Bran's grandfather, or perhaps a younger brother, or a brother to Lord Rickaid’s father. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And there was my own grandfather sitting on that seat, peering intently at the steering wheel as if mesmerized. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Every time I put in a new page, I look at your grandfather. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess so. I like it, and all those books. Do you think our grandfather was smart? Do you think he went to college or just read? What do you think he was like?” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It smelled of stale air and shoe leather and my grandfather’s slightly sour cologne. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It is as prominent as if he were a grandfather and not a third cousin twice removed. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They're going to drop off my grandfather and me at the movie theater, grab dinner, and pick us up on the way home. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

I seemed to recall my grandfather telling me that one picked a rabbit up by its neck with one’s teeth. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Blanca saw her, her first reaction was that the grandfather’s predictions had been true and that the police had attacked the students with their clubs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In response to my grandfather’s question, Zizmo only opens his door: to facilitate escape. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My grandfather rubs a nonexistent beard on his chin. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Even the morning after his grandfather left, she got up and did this for him, never letting her eyes stray to the chair across from Sherm’s. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

As we go out, I hear my grandfather telling the story of how he bought the land for the compound after the big hurricane of 1930. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She always said, “You’re just like your grandfather,” which he had always taken to be a good thing no matter how angrily she said it. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Even after his big talk about my grandfather and all, maybe he decided to take me at my word. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather was respected for two reasons: he was a preacher, and he had a college degree. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

By this secret: the smiling bald man with the grandfather face has another face. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather is a slim person of average height with heavy, heathery-gray eyebrows. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Don't be angry with your father, Kabir. As your grandfather said, we were different back then." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Somewhere else, my grandfather is spending time with his brother Vertie. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Though it was true there was no one left alive whom I could talk to about my grandfather, there was still the house, a lot of it unexplored. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

On the factory floor, my grandfather was trained for his job in seventeen minutes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Afternoons with my grandmother meant picking greens, cabbage, okra, and tomatoes in the small garden my grandfather planted in the backyard each spring. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather sat forward and took one of her hands. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Galen E. Haynie's grandson points out his grandfather’s name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Ever since they had run away from their grandfather's house, Prosper had asked himself at least three times a day whether he had been right to take his little brother with him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Laurie and his grandfather would care a great deal, and we should all be very sorry to have any harm happen to you,” said Meg heartily. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we hug our grandfather, his body is all bones and skin. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Is your grandfather going to fight the Lobsterbacks?” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing he could say to the heartbroken old man who was Corey’s grandfather. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It said, “Your grandfather and I thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all you are doing at our house. I hope Mr. Beautiful is behaving. Yours, Miss Love.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe little Ahmad, like his uncle and father and grandfather and countless Zeitouns before them, will feel the lure of the sea. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

As in: Dad’s in a coma because of a myocardial infarction, which is the same thing my grandfather died of. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

At five, he began questioning his grandfather about the existence of God—and remembers being disappointed in the answers he got. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

A long time afterwards I thought that if I had waited and gone to my uncles, or somehow sneaked across the bridge and warned my grandfather that things would have turned out differently. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kneeling there on my grandfather’s dusty floor with those photos in my hands, I remembered how betrayed I’d felt the day I realized his stories weren’t true. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She parked in front of her grandfather’s house, near the thatch fence. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Our great grandfathers built stone walls and buildings that are standing today. In Europe some have been standing since the year 1000.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His grandfather—Toby had only met the man a handful of times before he ended up on the wrong side of a knife in a bar in Startown—had taken his chances in Nashville. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

My uncle drove straight to my grandfather’s house. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘My grandfather died in this room. Not very long ago, either. He lay and died in that bed. Now it's your bed.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Raj walks up to the table and eyes my grandfather. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“Where did you go to school?” my grandfather asks Ben bluntly. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

To her left waits her grandfather’s old room. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t square my grandfather’s idyllic stories with this nightmare house, nor the idea that he’d found refuge here with the sense of disaster that pervaded it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

During my many walks with my uncle, I learned that my grandfather had many wives and that my father had brothers he never talked about. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I know that my grandfather reured from the army as a master sergeant. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know where he was headed, only that it sure wasn’t back to his grandfather’s. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There are always other people waiting, some possibly even waiting for their grandfathers too, but for different reasons. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Likewise, my grandfather preferred to spend his mornings working on a modern Greek translation of the “restored” poems of Sappho. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

All his weekday liquor sins are washed away, and I have my grandfather back, even if it’s only for one day a week. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I remember when I was eight and my mom was about to give birth to Jeffrey, my grandfather gave me a big pep talk on the way to the hospital. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wished she could remember how her grandfather had taught her the syllables and words. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

All this occupied what had been the royal palace before the current queen’s grandfather built a finer one straddling the Eder and gifted this one to the Scholars’ Guild. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I look at my grandfather and ask, “How did you find out?” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then she told him of the weapons she had stolen from her grandfather and hidden with her Uncle Jaime, and she offered to take him to look for them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d better not say. I don’t think your grandfather wants you kids worrying about it until the time comes. He would rather have scheduled your visit to avoid the festival night.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

How much time I wasted on school and friends instead of being with my grandfather. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

A kindly, educated old man with a big white Panama hat who worried mostly about his digestion, my grandfather entertained no political ambitions. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I just knew my grandfather was playing a joke on me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They turn all fever victims away. Your cook can care for your mother. Your grandfather can travel with you. This is the best for all.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Taxes, son. Taxes on this farm. Your grandfather there hasn’t been paying them.” Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sierra. I said I don’t know. I’ll check on your grandfather later.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

At the mention of his grandfather, Digger crossed and then uncrossed his arms. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The apartment is so still, with only the beating of a grandfather clock above my head.“Well, now what?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Werner repairs a neighbor’s sewing machine, the Children’s House grandfather clock. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Donna, it was a flare gun. He probably wanted to scare the you-know-what out of ’em,” my grandfather said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then she said, “I told your grandfather that the church was very important to me. He said, ‘Well, you go on by yoreself, jest like you been a-doin’.’” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I ran to the library, sensing that my grandfather would be waiting for me where he always sat, and there he was, shrunken in his armchair. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though I had expected to find them there, just as in those dreams in which I encountered my grandfather looking at me from across the dimensionless space of a dream-room. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even my grandfather, who’d filled my head with stories of tentacle-tongued monsters, had realized images like these would give any kid bad dreams. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They all knew that what the grandfather had said was probably true. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Like when my grandfather walked through the front door looking like a teenager. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

My grandfather storms up to us, red in the face, his hair bouncing everywhere. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

It came to us on the ferry after my mainland grandfather died. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music slinks and rises and settles back to earth, and then the young voice of her long-dead grandfather speaks: There are ninety-six thousand kilometers of blood vessels in the human body; children! All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But this was too much . . . he was not grandfather or uncle or father, nor preacher or teacher. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re like—I don’t know how to put it . . . my grandfather. Your manners, I mean. You don’t gobble your food or spit on the floor. I’ve never heard you swear. It’s okay, but it’s different.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jimmy noticed that his grandfather had brushed something out of his eyes. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Mostly, they were far away in New York City, where my grandfather had some position in the United Nations. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I continue to record my grandfather as I listen to all his stories, and I am suddenly so grateful that Mrs. Medina assigned this project. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The wind swept over the crusted snow into my Byzantine face, which was the face of my grandfather and of the American girl I had once been. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

After his grandfather left, Sherm’s parents blew through the house a little more quietly for a while. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

You mean those big grandfather cars that take up two lanes? A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Struggle for your grandmother and grandfather, for your name. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

My grandfather puts on his overcoat and heads for the drugstore to get my grandmother some more of her blood-pressure medicine. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Hearing my grandfather’s stories directly from him makes me feel so much closer to him than ever before. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her grandfather’s name in this strange professor’s journal. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Go and bring that boy down to his dinner, tell him it’s all right, and advise him not to put on tragedy airs with his grandfather. I won’t bear it.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Was my grandfather really running from the Nazis when he came here?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Six years after my uncle's death, my grandfather died of cancer. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Lily,” I say to stop her, “did my grandfather—Did you—Was I baptized?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

At least they don’t know I’m also the girl whose grandfather’s soul lives in her cat. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It makes me wish we had one of those thatch-roof walkways that my grandfather Lolo can build out of fronds. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Your grandfather bought the most expensive insurance policy. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But he was ashamed, and yet half proud too, as one feels himself who is still lusty and a man when others hold him to be only grandfather. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Why my grandfather taught me to swim as soon as I could walk.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

When I stepped outside, my mother bent down and embraced me much harder than my grandfather had hugged me. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back when George’s grandfather started farming, farmers grew their own seed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The old couple sat next to her; the grandfather fanned himself and his wife. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Dad called me into his office on Boxing Day and said he had something very important to give me, from my grandfather. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

And my mind revolved again and again back to my grandfather. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew about her grandfather, the monster that caught her grandmother. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

My grandfather tucked the butt of the fishing rod under one arm and took out another old photograph to show me. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He knew what it meant, and once more, he had the sound of his grandfather’s voice creating meaning in his ear. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The relatives there can send it on to the remaining aunts and their children and, after a good harvest, to the children and grandchildren of my grandfather’s two minor wives. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Things can happen to little black girls,” my grandfather once told me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather had died a decade earlier in 1936—he had been murdered following a dispute over mica mines—leaving my grandmother to raise five young boys. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

When she met and married my grandfather—a good-natured young man just out of the navy—she dedicated herself to constructing the perfect family, or at least the appearance of it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The grandfather would slide his body into the water while his grandson sat on the shore with a basket. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The doctor, a man old enough to be someone's grandfather, reads my information in the computer system and pokes at the bump on my head. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My grandfather may have been an imposing and learned man, but he was an idealist and a dreamer. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

So I only saw my grandfather now and then, and when he was gone the house was in the hands of women. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

For it would be on this visit, his grandfather had said, that the books in his glass-fronted case, collected over a lifetime and preserved under lock and key, would be given to Ashoke. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, the title page bore an inscription in my grandfather’s shaky handwriting. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

My grandfather’s confidence in my abilities made me hold my head a little higher. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather says, “Your mother’s lavender is still there.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

It was on this soil that my grandfather had gone on a hunting trip with King Nadir Shah and shot a deer. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Swiftly they drove their horses across a meadow, through shivering aspen groves until, sure enough, the small log edifice his grandfather called Bear Wallow cabin turned up. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That summer, all the men except for my grandfather Walter Tate cut their hair close and shaved off their thick beards and mustaches. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure steps onto the floor of her grandfather’s old bedroom and summons him: a curious boy with lustrous hair who smells of the sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It's the first time that he has heard his grandfather agree with Hitler. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

"My lord father has little enough time remaining him. So long as your grandfather lives, my place is at Riverrun with him." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Anyhow, Miss Love wasn’t that kind and neither was my grandfather. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Her grandfather had seldom mentioned such a thing. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He lived two miles outside, in a cottage his grandfather had built. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

However, by the time Mrs. Richardson’s grandfather—by then a successful lawyer—was preparing to bring his bride home, downtown had grown noisy and congested. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a grandfather clock that appeared to be made entirely of glass, so you could see all the gears turning. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I used to go up there with my grandfather all the time. Catch!” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

My grandfather, on the whole, came in for better treatment. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Almost as low an opinion as she had of her father, Clayton’s grandfather. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to miss one word my grandfather said. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soojin’s grandfather doesn’t speak much English, but like always, he smiles warmly and bends slightly in return. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“What of your grandfather’s estate? I always understood he was a wealthy man.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The clock was still there, but it looked smaller now, and less odd—like every woods would have a skinned grandfather clock in it. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The Kansas victim, who followed the preceding five, was a grandfather; his name was Otto Ziegler, he was sixty-two, a robust, friendly fellow, the sort not likely to pass distressed motorists without offering assistance. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandparents had been separated for many years, and my grandfather had for some time lived alone in the South Philadelphia housing projects. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“He misses his grandfather, who used to live with him.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“About that, I’m curious. You say your grandfather lived here. He never mentioned it?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I dreamed instead about my grandfather as a boy, about his first night here, a stranger in a strange land, under a strange roof, owing his life to people who spoke a strange tongue. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather and I used to live at Nyanga in Zimbabwe. It’s cold there. Ice forms on the water in winter.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That Sandy deserves anything bad because of the things his brother and father and grandfather have done. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Four days at Reverend Cooper’s house as his guest, and the purpose of long visits from every old man in the town who remembered his father or his grandfather, and some who’d only heard. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather, who’d worked throughout Africa as a missionary, would often share the truth with me about the tremendous cultural diversity that lies within the continent. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He glanced down the hall, but my grandfather had already retired. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 11:00 I was up and dressed, and, without seeing my grandfather, went looking for Naomi. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Papa shouted in my ear, “Something has happened to your grandfather.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather served in the military, as an infantryman in the US Army. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Never met him. Your grandfather had dealings with him once. It will be dangerous, but at present he is probably our best alternative. We should hurry. I’ll tell you more on the way.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“I think I like you better with short hair,” Raj says to my grandfather. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather was up until forty minutes ago. He had a long night.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The grandfather put Junsoo down and knocked on the door to a large house compound. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

There were also signs that my grandfather may have suffered from a mood disorder. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Mama and I stared at the picture until the grandfather clock in the hallway bonged and we both sniffed. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mudgett gouged his initials into an old elm tree at his grandfather’s farm, where the family marked his growth with notches in a doorjamb. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

My grandmother and my grandfather and my Aunt Libby were all still Catholics. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Sierra stood and gave her grandfather a kiss on his forehead. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Laurie and his grandfather came over to see her off, and Mr. Brooke looked so strong and sensible and kind that the girls christened him ‘Mr. Greatheart’ on the spot. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was no one with whom she could speak about these things, not even her grandfather, because people preferred not to know. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had her grandfather’s moth on her heart. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on Hurlbut Street, my grandfather, Lefty Stephanides, took down the zebra skin, dismantled his underground speakeasy, and emerged once again into the upper atmosphere. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Once at my grandfather’s store, I had given him a piece of candy. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the months since her grandfather died there had been no one whom Kit could trust. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako felt a little shy to be with her grandfather alone. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather was a big landlord, and you’d better watch out. We won’t put up with any of your landlord tricks.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, if it rained we’d go up to Tom Warrups and get him to tell us stories about the Indian wars and the brave things his grandfather, Chief Chicken, did. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pictured it: me holding my grandfather’s body, terrified and confused, never suspecting the truth about him or myself. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

If it had ever held answers about my grandfather—in the form of letters, maybe, or a photo album or a diary—they’d probably burned up or rotted away decades ago. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Or that his grandfather died with The Four Corners of the World in his lap. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Even the weathers had grown milder, and the wolves that had once come ravening out of the North in bitter white winters were now only a grandfather’s tale. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And then he said again, as though he had just thought of it newly, “By this time tomorrow I may be grandfather to a man child!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

My mom usually helps her aunt prepare the food, which my grandfather always says is “too dry” even if it’s soup. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And who was the old man, a friend, a teacher, a replacement for a missing grandfather? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Please,” she said, “my friend, the Green Tiger injured him and he’s hurt and . . The grandfather quickly pushed the children off of him and stood up. “Hurt by the Green Tiger!” he said. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“The only creatures to benefit from this pestilence are the rats. Go home, Matilda, take my regards to your grandfather, but tell him he must lock all the doors and pray for frost.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s after ten when we finally get in the car and head to my grandfather’s apartment. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Suddenly remembering the pictures on television, the ones that made her grandfather so crazy, Hannah shook her head. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather insists on wearing a jacket and tie, even though we’re just going to the Mexican place. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The names of all the uncles, both grandfathers, and the four great grandfathers had been used. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting in a high-backed leather armchair in Grandpa Sorenson’s study, Kendra wondered if grandfather clocks got their name because only grandparents owned them. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“See the cows? That would be breaking your grandfather’s rules!” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And that grandfather and the little girl—Dicey didn’t know why they had made her feel better, but they had, even though it wasn’t going to get any easier. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She explained we’d be traveling back to Texas with our grandfather the next day. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Piper kept glancing over, afraid she’d see a monster’s face peeping in, or the water cannibals from her grandfather’s old stories; but all she saw was an occasional school of herring. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She was eager to talk about her grandfather and offered to drive to see me. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“This was a great man, Captain William Farnsworth Cook, of the Pennsylvanian Fifth Regiment. He was my grandfather. You will not bury him without a prayer.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is a man about my grandfather’s age or maybe older. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

With a child's instinct, I knew the man was safe, for occasionally, strangers my grandfather had met on his travels came for a visit and wandered over to our property. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It was my grandfather who had the idea that we should write this story. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembers being unable to see anything at all; for the first hours he thought that perhaps, like his grandfather whom he was on his way to visit, he’d gone blind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had kind eyes like a grandfather’s and listened to my whole story without an expression on his face. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother, my grandfather, and Adele detested the state people, so I did too. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

My grandfather frequently came by our house with potatoes and beets and other produce from his garden to make sure his daughter and his grandchildren didn't go hungry. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got some Cherokee blood in me. My grandfather told me lots of things about Oklahoma Territory. If there’s a Martian around, I’m all for him.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told my grandfather that they had put me in a van and driven me blindfolded, during curfew. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He likes it, Will Tweedy! And isn’t your grandfather a handsome man! You and him—I mean you and he—you look a lot alike, Will. I never realized it before.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“She did the same thing when my grandfather died.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

But my grandfather is sleeping when we come to his bedside, opens his eyes only to smile, turns so that my grandmother can press ice cubes against his lips. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

But I for sure knew, and it was my own grandfather’s wife I was hankering after, which seemed like an awful sin. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather saw fit to build this house on land that did not belong to him—that does not belong to you now. The sheriff is trying to explain the consequences of that.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The church supper is the grandfather of the country club, just as the Thursday poetry reading in the basement under the vestry sired the little theater. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She presented it to me in the same way that my grandfather had handed me his book—the other book—a few short months before. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone in La Paz remembers the return of the family; there may be some old ones who saw it, but those whose fathers and whose grandfathers told it to them remember it nevertheless. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather Southside had moved to our neighborhood after a fire destroyed his old house on the West Side, though luckily nobody’d been hurt. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She wondered why her grandfather still had not come to rescue her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were probably freaking out, trying to think of a way to explain how they’d spent all that money my grandfather had left in the bank box. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

When I pictured my grandfather out there, lost and raving in nothing but his bathrobe, a black feeling welled up in me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But Winnie, though she was half charmed, was suddenly reminded of the stiff black ribbons they had hung on the door of the cottage for her grandfather’s funeral. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was nice to imagine a version of my grandfather that didn’t make my grandmother cry. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

My mom’s relatives tended to gather at Southside’s house around the corner—drawn by my grandfather’s cooking, the ongoing games of bid whist, and the exuberant blasting of jazz. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My grandfather got a tumor that ate away his lungs, and my grandma followed him a few months later. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I had been thinking about how some kids call their grandfathers “Pop-Pop.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The man took my grandfather to the store to buy him some warm clothes to wear until he could properly equip himself for the winter. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

That was until Will Thompson’s grandfather, who was a member of the school’s board of trustees as well as an esteemed donor, got wind of the article. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Out back, my grandfather pulls weeds from his garden, digs softly into the rich earth to add new melon seeds. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

In the cool, dark room which was the heart of the house my grandfather sat and waited. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The one his grandfather gave him that once belonged to Billy.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Solid, monumental like his grandfathers, but with a joie de vivre and an irresistible good humor that they did not have, Aureliano Segundo scarcely had time to look after his animals. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Only in 1958, when he had stepped from behind the bar of another Zebra Room, would my grandfather have the leisure to remember his youthful dreams of roulette wheels. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was born on 27 December 1571, but when he was only 2 his father went off to fight in the Netherlands, and Katherine followed, leaving the infant in the care of his grandfather. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I give the letter to my grandfather to mail because I don’t really want Mami to know I’m writing to a boy, even if he is my cousin. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

We wave again from the taxi that pulls out slow down the drive—watch our grandmother, still waving, grow small behind us and our grandfather, in the window, fade from sight. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Marian’s grandfather referred to himself as a Black Jew and practiced his adopted religion in a crowded household of devout Baptists. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“The cook fire, honored grandfather,” replied the boy. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then he said: “Here’s luck, grandfather; a new day; may the worst be over now.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, down the hill and across the road, lay Lake St. Clair, where my grandfather Jimmy Zizmo had faked his death. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Still, he hurried by Mrs. Cobb’s, trusting that maybe the Lord would get things right today and she wouldn’t be out by her grandfather’s fence. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

And then his grandfather had explained how to count forward by months and days. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I was considered an example of desirable conduct—just as my grandfather had been. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I recited the questions in Hebrew, trying hard not to make a mistake, I could feel my grandfather's eyes on me, willing me through my part. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

They wanted her to be a cannibal, a witch, a six-armed monster—the characters from their grandfather’s stories with which they populated their games. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Not much. My grandfather used to tell me about him though." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Laurie, when are you going to your grandfather?” she asked presently, as she settled herself on a rustic seat. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Virtually all traces of the grandfather’s life and death—of passions and turmoil and possible brutal violence—had seemingly been washed away. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When she heard laughter from the other room she stood up, eager to talk to her grandfather, who was different from anyone else she had ever met. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As the evening comes to an end, my grandfather is usually too drunk to do much of anything. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather says that it’s something Koreans have had to do historically, because Korea was invaded so many times. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

My grandfather took no sides in these discussions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The herd hurried past, heading to the barn, and her grandfather followed behind them in a little cart. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“No. I have a grandfather named Scooter. He was a cook in the U.S. Navy.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather is best for your project,” she says. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

At the time of this book’s writing, Wes has just become a grandfather. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In berry season, I could sell all the benies I could pick at my grandfather’s store. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we passed the cherubs, Ricky slowed to a crawl and peered doubtfully down my grandfather’s block. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

More than a hundred years, my grandfather says, and we're still fighting for the free life we're supposed to be living. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Clara was in such a hurry to make her literate that at the age of five the little girl was already reading the newspaper over breakfast and discussing the news with her grandfather. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather obviously didn’t buy it, although he was too polite to say so. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Unless my brother and my uncle and my grandfather are all cast down and killed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My grandfather holds out a plate to her. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

He shouted to my grandfather, “Did you hear anything?” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a library now, that would have made your grandfather happy, as if all of his buried books were seeds, from each book came one hundred. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not hunting for his grandfather’s flashlight—that was the first mistake of the trip. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Hand in hand, we walked up the wide front steps, and my grandfather opened the door for me, bowing me through. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The driver’s grandfather had recently retired as a district court judge, which gave the accident an extra public layer. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

As a last resort, I rounded up my courage and went out to my grandfather’s laboratory. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The music drew my grandfather back from wherever it was he’d gone. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She was sick and tired of her grandfather’s speeches, of listening to his arguments with her Uncle Jaime, and of endless electoral campaigns. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was sentimental: her grandfather had given it to her, and she had used it a lot as a schoolgirl. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Some nice filthy-rich uncle or grandfather, just like in the stories Hornet reads to us," “Esther is rich," Prosper said. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather was a King’s man, I reckon?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He smells faintly of cigarettes and leather, a reassuring smell that reminds me of my grandfather. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The other one made little slashes on the skin of her thigh, using an old- fashioned straight razor that had belonged to her grandfather. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As he greeted some ancient melon vendors who had known their grandfather, Liyana’s eyes fell on a young man, who appeared to be a dwarf, weighing bananas on an old-fashioned hanging scale. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘My grandfather built this house ...’ ‘My mother knew it and loved it.. .’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat and the warm orange light always brought Joseph back to the memory of his grandfather’s house, and it filled him with happiness. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Before I left Osage County to return home, I stopped to see Mary Jo Webb, a retired teacher who had spent decades investigating the suspicious death of her grandfather during the Reign of Terror. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The audience claps, but not loud enough to cover up my grandfather hollering, “That’s right, girl! You make them straight As, Nessy!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

My grandfather had never quite gotten the hang of car mechanics, and so he thought my father was a genius. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“If they knew about your grandfather, you can be certain they knew about you, as well.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Dinner was a dizzying blur of names and faces, many of them half-remembered from photographs and my grandfather’s long-ago descriptions. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“You grandfather is sleeping at old man Carris’s house,” she explained. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The “vacation home” I was speaking about was the parsonage my grandparents had moved into when my grandfather came out of retirement to lead a congregation. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“If my grandfather had run from the hollow that killed him, he might still be alive,” I said. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The other two were nationals, one with tribal marks on his cheeks, the other with marks on his hands just like the one my grandfather gave me to protect me from snakebite. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Jimmy sort of knew the story, but he waited for his grandfather to finish it. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

My thoughts took me back to my grandfather. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She studied her sleeping grandfather’s withered face, his gaping toothless mouth and flaring nostrils bathed in the warm glow of the reading lamp. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

My grandfather stomps over to him, digging in his backpack. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“You knew your grandfather was coming to Nsukka, did you not?” he asked in Igbo. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then Lee Chong sent his boxed and brittle grandfather over the western sea to lie at last in ground made holy by his ancestors. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she probably wouldn’t “Sheriff,” her grandfather said slowly, “you’ve taken the trouble to come out here to tell us this.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

With that, my grandfather stalked tall down the steps. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

My grandfather passed away from complications of stomach cancer in 2005. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

That was my first memory of my grandfather. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Partly I married your grandfather to have a family.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Like the street he lived on, recorded as Mains Avenue, but called Not Doctor Street by the Negroes in memory of his grandfather, who was the first colored man of consequence in that city. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dreamed that her grandfather would quit drinking. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

John Ivers is a polite, soft-spoken grandfather with a white baseball cap and a mustache. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“My third uncle, my cousin, my father, my grandfather.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Isaac Newton established the three laws of motion,” my grandfather says, and points to the plastic fork on his tray. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

This is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

After completing his education, my grandfather moved to the South Bronx and brought his wife and kids with him. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

My grandfather, accustomed to the multifarious conjugations of ancient Greek verbs, had found English, for all its incoherence, a relatively simple tongue to master. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Probably because he was raised by his grandfather. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“My grandfather has all these flags,” Sherm told Bridge on the way to his house. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Wasn't long after Cinder started to forget things that Cynthia and her mother moved down the hall into her grandfather's two-bedroom apartment. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I really got them interested when I told stories about living with my grandfather. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Her grandfather steps into the room, cuffs his cell phone, and says, “It’s your mom.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I worked for your grandfather when I was a child,” Ghulam said. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

At first, my grandfather was totally against the idea. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

As we eat, I find myself observing my grandfather and mother, like I’m a scientist, an Ellie version of Galileo. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

When she got upstairs to her apartment, Cynthia dropped her bag on the couch and beelined to her grandfather's room. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

My grandfather Captain Walter Tate requests that I inform you that we have, as yet, received no word from The Smithsonian Institution. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

What if Mina hadn't come to live with her and my grandfather? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“No! Listen to me. When I was little, my mother took me to visit my grandfather in America, and he had a fireplace.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“You told Deacon Hurd that your grandfather gave you an old family disease?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

When my grandfather had opened the bar in 1933, the area had been white and middle-class. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He probably hadn’t traveled much more than seven or eight miles, but there was still a whole day before his grandfather would get home from work and even suspect he was gone. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But he had his eye on his grandfather’s hat, and pushed and ran to keep up with it. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

For right there, sitting in the corner of the room—is my grandfather! Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Cersei paced her cell, restless as the caged lions that had lived in the bowels of easterly Rock when she was a girl, a legacy of her grandfather’s time. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hannah tells us about her grandfather, too, who lives in Miami and is married to someone very young. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

"Agree 'em to death and destruction," grandfather had advised. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Carolyn,” my grandfather used to tell me, “your name means strong one.’ While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She’d say, “But your grandfather insisted. To this day I cannot understand why, but he insisted, insisted .. I’d say, “Yes, Momma.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then they laughed with clear young scorn at a man so old as this and they said, “No, grandfather, and no one studies the Four Books since the Revolution.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“You need a shawl,” my grandfather tells her. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

She was heartbroken for someone else, and I was merely a stand-in for my grandfather. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m Senator Trueba! For God’s sake, don’t you recognize me?” the grandfather shrieked in desperation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Howard University, one of the greatest collections of books could be found in the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, where your grandfather once worked. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Don’t look, girls. Let’s humor your grandfather,” she said in English. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He raised his harmonica to his lips, cupped his hand around his blues harp, and sucked in hard to show his grandfather. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

She brought me the old clock her grandfather built. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the dusty road was my grandfather’s house. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feral horses, belonging to my grandfather, ran wild over thick banks of water hemlock, and there were more than a few rattlesnakes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My own grandfather had been lynched about thirty years before by a mob of white demons almost the moment he had set foot on their shores. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was turning the color of a fresh bruise as we pulled into my grandfather’s subdivision, a bewildering labyrinth of interlocking cul-de-sacs known collectively as Circle Village. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

My grandfather’s mind, locked in its graveyard spiral, accelerated as it hurtled toward its destruction, and three days later he started cooing like a baby and the next he started soiling himself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Arman—the pinched grandfather I told you about from the picture—her husband, was a bad husband, who was known as “the Governor,” and governed mostly a bunch of affairs with other women. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

If his grandfather was living, why’d he end up on an orphan train? Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The grandfather clock tolled the hour, chiming three times after the introductory melody. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They were tough guys who seemed to have no grandfather's curse worrying their minds. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now I’ve got you worried. You will be fine if you follow the instructions your grandfather gives you.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Ishmael’s grandfather had been a Highland Presbyterian, his grandmother an Irish zealot from the bogs above Lough Ree; they met in Seattle five years before the Great Fire, wed, and raised six sons. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I unpack Didu's suitcase of Hindu gods and goddesses and decide to display them near our grandfather's portrait, which just received a fresh string of chrysanthemums. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s best to face these things, Willy. Your grandfather is going to die.” Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It says: Fresno Boy Wins Central Valley Science Fair: Next to the article is a photo of my grandfather with the caption “Melvin Sagarsky, age 15.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

I didn’t like my grandfather much that day. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It may have been because we remembered the suffering and courage of our grandfathers who fought as warriors to protect our land and our people. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course: looking for his grandfather’s remains—to collect them and take them for a proper burial. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this is about the way the Salinas Valley was when my grandfather brought his wife and settled in the foothills to the east of King City. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I was like that at your age,” Ben tells my grandfather, patting his belly. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep, I’m so worried about my grandfather. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

When he took the last step, he bent down to be eye to eye with his grandfather. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“Just because grief ruined your grandfather doesn’t mean it’ll ruin you,” she finally said. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

And his grandfather never called the blues harp a harmonica. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Like the grandfather I never had the chance to know, he’s the glue that connects my life here to my bigger family and all its history and traditions. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“What? Your grandfather was a landlord and you don’t need to remold yourself?” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather doesn’t say anything; he just gives Ben a hostile look. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

After all, his grandfather could have left him with his neighbor Omar’s family. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Your grandfather used to joke if she’d just sit on the bow of the boat, he’d only have to fish half the time.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I’m sure no one in the world can understand a young boy like his grandfather can. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For graduation, Papá gave him an old ring that belonged to my grandfather. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I looked at my grandfather, but he didn’t help me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The joke was that at my wedding my grandfather would see I had all the caviar I could eat. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Actually,” my aunt said as I began tearing away the wrapping paper, “it’s from your grandfather.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“It was only after much study that my great-great- grandfather was able to decipher the words,” the king said. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The stupid goat had broken his leg two weeks earlier, and Anya’s grandfather wanted him to stay in the barn and rest for at least a month. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I divided the meal into two piles: one for me, and one for grandfather. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Chewing his pencil,” Paula told her when she had managed to hide under her grandfather's desk. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And my grandfather calmed down and started talking a different kind of talk. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had become enamored of hunting and fishing and became so skilled that when his grandfather died he was adopted by the greatest of all living Eskimo hunters. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a custom for the grandfather to select a name, and the one I had chosen was Zaziwe — which means “Hope.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you know my grandfather built that picket fence?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Plus, she had to get giggles for her grandfather. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Pa Sesay, one of my friends’ grandfather, had told us many stories that night, but before he began telling the last story, he repeatedly said, “This is a very important story.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A senior girl, Anna Grisdale, lost her grandfather after a long illness. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather was a wise man. You couldn’t have saved him, Mattie. It was his time.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he walked home, he went past Mrs. Cobb’s house and leaned against her grandfather’s fence. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

My grandfather holds his door open, listening for the sound of the ice groaning . Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His paternal grandfather, a former professor of European literature at Calcutta University, had read from them aloud in English translations when Ashoke was a boy. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I imagine that Marc’s mother and father are doing the same thing that I’m doing—accessing memories of Marc’s grandfather. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The son, named Vincenzio after his grandfather, was later formally acknowledged as Galileo’s heir and took his name. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I learned later that the social worker had called our grandfather to tell him we’d been taken into foster care. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Things are a little different with my grandfather living with us. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Out of their own earth had his grandfather in his youth fashioned also the oven, baked and black with many years of meal preparing. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather called me early this morning and told me what happened last night. I know about your mother, Vanessa. Why didn’t you feel like you could talk to me about it?” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A fire still burned in the old stone fireplace, and the grandfather clock and television set were right where they had always been. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, your grandfather, Ghazi Sahib, the judge? Now, his uncle and my grandfather were cousins,” she said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather stood at the door and motioned. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako kept looking to see if her grandfather was all right, but he didn’t seem tired at all now. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather is not in any situation to make promises like that. Besides, I am your father, Hiram, and I’m the one who must ultimately be responsible for your safety.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I haven’t been up in my grandfather’s apartment for a while now. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Makes it to the threshold of her grandfather’s bedroom. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

On Saturdays, my grandfather often took me for a ride in the car. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Keep up the arguing, my grandfather says, I'll take you both down to city hall. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She may not have any new giggles to give her grandfather. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Most large early clocks are driven by a weight which slowly descends: grandfather clocks had to be tall in order to give the weight space in which to descend. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I bring two foods to share. One is hone-senbei, my grandfather favorite. Other is wasabi peas. They are maybe spicy. Food in America tastes...” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t understand the full meaning of my grandfather’s statement about the power of names until I grew up. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

On my last Sunday in Greenwood, I slept late, waiting for my grandfather to get up and eat breakfast and find something to do before I came downstairs. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Emily went to grab her notebook from her backpack when she saw the time on the Lees’ grandfather clock. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Responding to the fall-off in customers at the speakeasy, my grandfather had diversified. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Fina tells me about how her grandfather fought in the Vietnam War and lost one of his legs there and how sometimes he swore he could still feel it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Plus, she'd learned from her grandfather a long time ago how important tradition was. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I scream at my grandfather, but he doesn’t answer. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But he wasn’t certain about his grandfather’s spirit and where it went. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I have a painting to finish and a grandfather to visit. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Anywhere. I don’t care what becomes of me,” and Laurie got up with a reckless laugh that grated on his grandfather’s ear. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember your grandfather coming to New York, taking me out for Ethiopian, after which I walked him to the West Fourth Street subway station. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I began to understand why Emma had been so reluctant to believe me; it would mean, in all likelihood, that I was here to deliver bad news about my grandfather. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

My southern grandfather missed slavery by one generation. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was Jenna’s idea that I bring my grandfather a present on the one-year anniversary of his death. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I remembered my grandfather’s warnings, the way he insisted that I was never to approach this deep water. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

And then I see my grandfather do something I ain’t never seen him do before. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I can remember both about my grandfather, but when I think of Tom it is a memory of a kind of warm silence. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

That my father and my grandfather were so desperate for a powerful heir, to prevent the end of the Malfoy line, that they . . . that they used a Time-Turner to send my mother back . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“Yes—yes—of course,” he cackled, “a grandfather—a grandfather—” and he rose and went to his bed, still laughing. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

We were miles into my grandfather’s land, and no one else would drive up from either direction. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

My grandfather reaches over and takes my two hands in his. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He decided that it was unfair to blame the granddaughter for the ideas of the grandfather, and they resumed their stroll with their arms around each other. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Good morning, little master; I’ll tell your uncle-—cousin—grandfather that you are here, sir.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because the snow on the peaks shines in the sunlight,” explained his grandfather. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

A grandfather clock lay splintered at their feet, its face cracked, its pendulum lying a little farther away like a dropped sword. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I knew he was sore because the DiAngelos bought his grandfather’s farm, tore down the old house, and built a mansion up there on the bluff. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

There is no doubt that your grandfather’s reactionary class standing had a bad influence on your father’s thoughts, and he naturally passed them on to you. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather had an imposing presence, but he was a devoted father and was well respected by his peers. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I suppose it was then that the beneficent influence of the woman with the pearls went into effect, the one my grandfather and I went to see to thank her for saving my life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw, as we approached, that she was watching my grandfather as he came down the path from the camp to the edge of the lake. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Once, when he didn’t want to tell me my grandfather was about to die; another time was when a car ran over my dog in Virginia. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The corset was all they needed in terms of an aphrodisiac, and it remained for my grandfather the singular erotic emblem of his life. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I let him know right quick that my grandfather wasn’t crooked. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Got that automatic transmission,” my grandfather said when he came into the living room. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Carl came from old-time island stock; his grandfather, Bavarian born, had established thirty acres of strawberry fields on prime growing land in Center Valley. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late in the evening, Marie-Laure descends the ladder and falls asleep in her grandfathers bed to the sound of her great-uncle working above her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“No, but my grandfather and my father—and my brother.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And my grandfather found out. In the most melodramatic way you can possibly imagine.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was the same look his father had when they received the news that Nathan’s grandfather had passed away. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

George’s grandfather moved his family to Iowa from Derbyshire, England, in the 1880s. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Even a phonograph record that she says contains her grandfather’s voice, lessons in science for children. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

"My hair hasn't been this color since your grandfather died. It quickly turned gray after that terrible day. He always used to like my hair. And what do you think of the makeup?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was forty years old and a grandfather, we were told, but he looked much, much younger. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The basket was on the floor under Hanako’s feet, and her grandfather had pushed the other bag of rice under the seat in front of them. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I hurried down the hall, past the grandfather clock, and up the stairs to the drawing room. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have asked the question through my reading and writings, through the music of my youth, through arguments with your grandfather, with your mother, your aunt Janai, your uncle Ben. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I would like to be the grandfather who stops her tears. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He’d tell his mother he was sick, but there was noise rising up into his room, noise that had nothing to do with his grandfather’s roaming spirit. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He seems like a thirteen-year-old boy, but when I look really closely I can see hints of my grandfather. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

He joined the children’s choir to be close to music that sounded like the blues his grandfather played. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

My paternal grandfather was known as Jacob the blacksmith, and our neighbor was Lansman the tailor. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

In the darkness and whirling snow, my grandfather’s eyes play tricks on him. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And now to drive me wild I felt suddenly that my grandfather was hovering over me, grinning triumphantly out of the dark. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently, one reason my grandfather supported the union was that it meant my mom would ditch her plans to move to London. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

"If we storm these walls thousands will die," fretted ancient Lord Estermont, who was the king's grandfather on his mother's side. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He found the man, and together they figured out that their grandfathers were brothers, making the two of them second cousins. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Your mother gave you two things I never had: a father and a grandfather.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

My grandfather or kamor—teacher, as everyone called him—was a well-known local Arabic scholar and healer in the village and beyond. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We pray for my grandfather ask God to spare him even though he's a nonbeliever. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

This great feast would be interrupted by a small speech of welcome from my grandfather, and the grown-ups would raise their long-stemmed wine glasses and say ‘skaal’ many times throughout the meal. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That is my right. I am your grandfather. And this is my property.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Against a background of blue-gray sky, my grandfather seems to gaze right at me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Did he know that his grandfather had helped to drive the pilings for the wharf at South Beach Bay landing? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Yet he refused to read the Russians his grandfather had brought to his bedside, or any novels, for that matter. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, confiscated treasures are crammed to the ceiling: rolled tapestries, grandfather clocks, armoires, and giant landscape paintings crazed with cracks. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Jack’s favorite thing to do was to watch his grandfather paint the lettering on signs, which was his profession. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The way she was dancing just stole my heart,” my grandfather said. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather and I are prepared to give our lives if necessary.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The question, coming out of the blue, takes my grandfather off guard. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And the old man who was not his grandfather would shake his head in disgust. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He looked at the small girl, staggering persistently at the end of the loop her grandfather held. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

My grandfather has been complaining the whole way home. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

His rasping voice made Piper think of a straight razor being wiped across a strop - like in her grandfather’s barbershop back in Oklahoma. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, your grandfather is so full of fun, I expect he has a grand time when he goes to New York for the store.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I had seen the stud bulls on my grandfather's ranch during breeding season and witnessed their spectacles among the cows. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

If it wasn’t hanging in our hallway, I never would have guessed it was my grandfather, the sailor is so young. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Babou hoisted himself onto the roof, teetering for a moment at the top, and I was convinced I was about to witness my grandfather plummet to his death off his own rooftop. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was a sunny morning when a Storm Trooper posted a sign in front of the Berlin glass shop owned by Gaston Ruskin’s grandfather. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Your mother joined us at the farm a few days after she sent you and your grandfather on. When she realized you were lost, she went wild.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In many cases, the SS appointed Hitler Youth as Volkssturm leaders, thus giving teenagers the responsibility of training men old enough to be their fathers and grandfathers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t till my grandfather came back in the house that he really looked at the saddle. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

That was the awful truth my grandfather had tried to protect me from. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

As we approached my grandfather’s house there was a lull in the storm. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father’s father—my grandfather—had been an architect in Iran, responsible for designing some of the country’s most beautiful buildings, and I could see that same kind of brain in my dad. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Didu gets up and goes over to the picture of our grandfather that hangs on the wall, which she keeps decorated with strings of fresh jasmine or marigolds. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“What old man?” demanded Jo, thinking he must mean his grandfather. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather remained silent, however, as he toured his son’s impressive new home. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My grandfather watched in astonishment as his modest wife shredded her clothing before his eyes, the skirt of the dress, the waist, the bosom, the neckline. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My grandfather would not allow any talk of witchcraft in his presence. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather had married Lessie Lane sometime around her sixteenth birthday. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now Hope stays mostly quiet unless asked to speak, his head bent inside the superhero comic books my grandfather brings home on Fridays. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Burying my face in the iron-gray hair, I cried and begged God not to let my grandfather die. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather stole my notebook. I have to get it back before he burns it.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Oh, we’re all Patriots. After all, my grandfather is head of the militia.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tells me he doesn’t trust doctors, that my grandfather did and look where it got him: six feet under at forty-five. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Your grandfather got work pulling logs through the saws. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father’s class status . I did not see what Du Hai meant at first. “You mean what did my grandfather do? Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down in that basement speakeasy, my grandfather acquired the attributes of the barkeep he would be for the rest of his life. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A bundle of gilded cattails stood in one corner and a sheaf of peacock feathers was nailed to the wall beside the grandfather clock. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I swear I’ve heard my grandfather’s voice, as clear as a bell. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Then he beat up my sixty-year-old grandfather and left him lying there on the ground.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, my grandfather came from somewhere near here. My grandmother too.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

His grandfather switched to a sports channel, then turned up the volume again. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She picked up a lovely gold-patterned robe and said softly, “This was a government official’s uniform. I remember my grandfather wearing it.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I climb the two short steps but then turn and face my grandfather. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

We all went to the carnival—me and Burke and Betty Allen and the father Burke and the grandfather Burke. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

After a few more minutes, the grandfather announced that it was time to keep walking. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

When the U.N. post was first conferred on him, my grandfather balked: he wanted no part of the corrupt regime. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“As a child you believed your grandfather was ‘making it all up,’ as they say? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And why would Dad even take that money from my grandfather? We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

And then his mother had a psychotic episode and his grandfather died and it was just too much all at once. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was his grandfather, recently dead, who had started to make use of the Red Room. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He tried to convince my grandfather to go into politics, as he hoped to, and change the world through that means. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He started to rip out the page, then realized he couldn’t leave his grandfather such an obvious clue. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They were both recently retired—my grandfather from the ministry and my grandmother from twenty-six years as an elementary school teacher in the Bronx. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Part of me wonders if this is just some weirdo who stole my grandfather’s ring and is tricking my mom. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

"What makes you believe that your grandfather may be missing?" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Raj leans out the open window, gives my grandfather a slow look. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“I sleep in the same room as my grandfather. He is a heathen,” I blurted out. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When my grandfather arrived, he did not have much to say, although I could tell he was pleased to see me again. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Several years after my grandfather disappeared in South America, a large amount of money was discovered in a safe- deposit box that he’d kept at a bank up in Hallandale. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

For the first time, my grandfather’s last words began to make a strange kind of sense. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“But my grandfather was more peculiar than me. He had to be. He was so strong ...” “No, Jacob,” she said, narrowing her eyes at me. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

My father told me that when his grandfather was a boy, it was not impossible for one to see a dragon or even a longma. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

My grandfather digs around in his carton suspiciously. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“Kevin said you stayed up to twenty-five minutes with your grandfather. Is that what I told you?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then, slowly, I remembered how I’d come to be part of this: my grandfather; the island; the children. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I saw the astonishment leave his eyes and the friendly-old- grandfather look come back. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at the grandfather clock guarding the study’s corner. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The next one was sadder, and I imagined she’d sent it after my grandfather had failed to write for a while. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I doubled up my right fist and was on the point of hitting Rainie in one of his eyes when I felt my grandfather’s hand on my shoulder. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were still people in this town who would stop Toby and comment on the way his grandfather could sing and play—like an angel or a devil, depending. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He realizes that he will probably not do as well as the few who have risen to high office or who were able to buy the vineyards where their grandfathers once picked grapes. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

When relatives visited her grandfather’s home, Red Corn recalled, he was scared. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The canoe of his grandfather, plastered over and over, had a splintered hole broken in it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, my grandfather says, Sing me something pretty. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later he returned with the notched spear that had belonged to his grandfather. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I thought a lot about my grandfather during the years we lived in Atlanta. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When his grandfather pulls up to my house, Boy21 says, “Thanks for eating cupcakes with me, Earthling.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My grandfather said to give you this. That’s all the cash he has right now. He said to tell you thanks. He’d come out himself, but he doesn’t want to leave her.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I went to the stove and found a plate of biscuits and jelly Ruthanne had left I took the plate to the table and sat down across from my grandfather. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Other pictures seemed manipulated in much the same way as some of my grandfather’s had been. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And when she came on Saturdays, she'd always catch Cynthia marching around outside the front of the store—prompted by her grandfather—and Miss Fran would stick stamps on Cynthia's chubby cheeks and forehead. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

My mother once told me my height came from my grandfather, who was a northerner, and may have even had some Mongol blood. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat at the table with his grandfather and a woman she’d never seen before. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her feet find the floor of her grandfathers room. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Down either side of his thighs he felt the sweet gum’s surface roots cradling him like the rough but maternal hands of a grandfather. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

This tradition doesn’t exist for Bengalis, naming a son after father or grandfather, a daughter after mother or grandmother. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Someone had initiated her long ago; some mysterious shadowshaper had brought her into the fold, even against the wishes of her own grandfather. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Russ reads directions off a piece of paper and his grandfather makes the necessary turns. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we reach number twenty-four, my grandfather stops. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

My grandfather comes into my bedroom without knocking. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The farthest her grandfather went was to his club. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thugs Pop worked for took me to get to my grandfather—to get him to come back from Ireland. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, when her mother’s cousin, Uncle Osita, came from Umunnachi to tell her that she was being summoned to a meeting at her grandfather’s compound, she did not tell Odenigbo about it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bram Fischer, a part-time lecturer, was the scion of a distinguished Afrikaner family: his grandfather had been prime minister of the Orange River Colony and his father was judge-president of the Orange Free State. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather hands a ski mask to Raj and pulls one over his head. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Last summer, just before my grandfather married Margaret, my mother and father got divorced, and Mother moved the two of us to upstate New York where she had grown up. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, you can’t just tell your own grandfather “Nice to meet you.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Was I given a choice? My grandfather and father were firemen. In my sleep, I ran after them.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every inch of it was built by my father and grandfather from all different kinds of wood—whatever they could borrow, barter, or beg for. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Yes, Will’s grandfather and traditional mascot advocate Mr. Thompson. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

My grandfather has a plan to get into building twenty-four, and it feels like it’s straight out of a spy movie. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

My grandfather’s murder left us with so many questions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I’m just plating up the pancakes when my grandfather walks into the kitchen. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

My grandfather was so weak that he’d usually fall asleep by eight o’clock. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it’s not a him, sister. We know as little as the young cliff-ghast. Maybe the old grandfather was laughing at his ignorance. The word sounds as if it means ‘god destroyer.’ The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Be ready to die, my grandfather says, for everything you believe in. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I tell Russ about how my grandfather stole money from the thugs he worked for so he could take my grandmother back to Ireland. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather would have called this treachery and I could not understand in just what way it was. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, ma’am. We’ve just had a little confusion during dismissal time for kindergarten at the elementary school—that’s all. I thought it best to bring your sons and their grandfather home.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

We had three girl second cousins, no boys; their great-grandfather and our grandfather were brothers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But as your grandfather has warned you, some of those creatures can be deadly. There are many places on the property where even he does not dare venture.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I had never seen my old grandfather so mad. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like everything else he owned, it had once belonged to someone else in his family —- in this case, his grandfather. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

His grandfather poked himself in the chest with two fingers. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The glass was clouded, but she recognized the uniform of a policeman and wondered what her grandfather could be doing with one of them in his library. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jimmy saw a strange look come into his grandfather’s eyes. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s because I never knew either of my grandfathers. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

After decades of neglect, I find myself thinking about departed great- aunts and -uncles, long-lost grandfathers, unknown fifth cousins, or, in the case of an inbred family like mine, all those things in one. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It has got to be hereditary because not only do I have this problem, but my grandfather, my dad, and his mom had this problem also. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was an odd old guy, my grandfather, and I am told I take after him. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks old enough to be someone's grandfather, but maybe that's just because I see gray hairs in his brown beard. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“She called me Henry, but I think she thought I was my grandfather.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But my grandfather just laughs, makes us open our mouths to show the strong Irby teeth we've inherited from his side of the family. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“But Tm sure your grandfather’s fine,” she says. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

I’d felt it like an itch in my chest while listening to my grandfather’s extraordinary stories. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Without the grandfather clock to mark the hours, the night seemed endless. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course they do good work,” his grandfather had said. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having asked the grandfather the distances between Suwon and Seoul and Incheon, Jinjoo knew that it would probably take them three to four days to reach Seoul. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

One elder would say, “Oh, I want to move to that big rock in the distance. That’s where my grandfather is buried. It is a very good area for cows.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A sad thing, a tragedy,” my grandfather nodded. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen, I wanted to say I’m sorry about your grandfather,” she says. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He looked to be about seven years old, and dressed in his grandfather’s clothes. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

After talking to his grandfather, he motioned to the left side of the garage and walked off again. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I am writing these words in 1984, but this grandfather of mine was born, believe it or not, in 1820, shortly after Wellington had defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am in the living room with her grandfather. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"My grandfather died last year, and I still miss him. Where's your mother?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I remember there was one time that my brother drove my grandfather back to the retirement home, and I rode along. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather also was angered by what he saw, although he tried not to show it. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I learned he was a married man, fifty-three years old, father of a family now grown and grandfather of two children. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the hill was my grandfather’s greenhouse. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather and I had a standing joke. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

You may be like your grandfather in this, I don’t know, but certainly both you and your father resemble him very much physically. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“Sit here, Katherine, where the fire will warm your back. Tell us how you happened to come so far. Did your grandfather come with you?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“You know your grandfather will never let it happen.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The sound I had been waiting for broke through; the low roar of Master Lockton’s snores, starting up just as the grandfather clock chimed midnight. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was as near as I ever came to hearing my grandfather curse, if you can call it cursing. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the watchful eye of my grandfather the bounty of the fields and orchards was gathered. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not. I’m common, just like my grandfather.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Why would I paint a rat on my grandfather’s shoulder?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

For the rest of that day my grandfather and I avoided each other. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

And there is another smell in the Packard now, above leather and whiskey, a stringent, metallic smell overpowering my grandfather’s deodorant: fear. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Before they turned, Lizzie felt her grandfather ebb as though his soul were passing out of him, the way the last waves of a falling tide pass into still air and are gone. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The man who mentored— and clothed—my grandfather followed his dreams and made history. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

His grandma had been, raised on a farm in Virginia and had come to New York when she married his grandfather. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s eight o’clock on Saturday morning and my grandfather is pacing the front hall. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to tell his grandfather that it tasted like liquid sugar. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And gradually she became aware that she wasn’t dead after all and that Baba Joseph wasn’t her grandfather. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Been through a lot of trauma... saw her grandfather shot...” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

His father had taken over my grandfather’s store around 1942 after the old man left town. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather didn’t care what others thought of him, but I did. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

According to Desdemona, my grandfather collapsed right after overturning his coffee cup to read his fortune in the grounds. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My grandfather’s voice was stronger and calmer now. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Bobby received $1,000 for his tournament win—and the Fischer family’s pocketbook bulged further when Bobby’s maternal grandfather, Jacob Wender, passed away, leaving $14,000 of his estate to Regina. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Why did they do that?” he asked his grandfather. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

As for the orphan, my grandfather adopted him into his own household, and told the other servants to tutor him, but to be kind to him. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They attacked the house and killed the grandfather and oldest daughter. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And your grandfather, who was left behind by his father. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She told me that my grandfather had been murdered. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Indulging my grandfather’s obsession with them had made me worse, not better. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure your grandfather would approve. Never asked permission. He might consider it wasteful.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know what it looked like, but if she saw any mushroom at all, she would point it out to her grandfather. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Always precisely at midnight, at the moment the grandfather clock in the foyer begins to chime, the first plates are placed on the table. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He studied his grandfather’s rule book and talked strategy with his dad. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

That’s where I spent the day of my grandfather’s funeral, sitting on the dryer with my laptop, trying to lose myself in online games. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

By then, my grandparents had a volatile relationship, plagued by the fact that my grandfather had engaged in an extramarital affair with a younger woman. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My grandfather has died, and I’m about to go to my first funeral. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

My grandfather paid me ten cents a bucket for my berries. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it would be different, seeing my grandfather in real life. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

My grandfather told me Clara fainted the day he put the skin of the animal down as a rug, thinking it would please her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cry because I am so jealous of Marc’s grandfather, because I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He could follow in his fathers and grandfathers footsteps and become a pastor. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was the DiAngelos’ property, yes, but only the week before it had belonged to Digger’s grandfather, and many times we had come to swim in the little cove to cool off. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Come on. You’d better get dressed. Your grandfather wants to hit the road in half an hour.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

There were things of his grandfathers, too, lights and jars and nets, all to do with the moth collecting. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

My grandfather, Captain Walter Tate, wishes you to know that he will send correspondints the moment he receives word. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Clayton hoped to hear funny stories about his grandfather as a kid, or as a young musician during his “Mr. Louisiana Hot Lick” days, or of his days at sea in the navy. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

When I came back into the house, my grandfather was already at the table. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“No bigger than a minute,” said the grandfather. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Try being bald for thirty years, and see how fast you cut your hair when you get it back,” my grandfather says. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“When have you met satyrs? I may have some choice words for your grandfather when we find him.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The image was so strange, and yet it was nothing like my grandfather’s pictures. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

My grandfather coughs again and the earth waits for what and who it will get in return. how to listen #3 Middle of the night my grandfather is coughing me upright. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“My son—your grandfather—made his fortune in the mines.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something in the brightness of the room, the volubility of the family, and the squinty smile of the patriarch reminded me of going to my grandfather Southside’s house when I was a kid. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She opened her eyes, studied the peaceful faces of her grandfather and brother. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“And then you will leave. There’s a garage not far down the highway. Call this grandfather of yours, have him come get you.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Before Hanako could bow and greet her grandfather, Jiichan cried out passionately, “I speak English! Yes, I do! It does a talent I learn in America many years before you.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

"Your grandfather was in love with a redhead. Lucky for me, she wouldn't have anything to do with him." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Well, for that matter, neither would my grandfather. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But I would never have been born in the first place if not for the great and selfless kindness Miss Peregrine had shown my grandfather. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And then he and I sit silently on my front steps until his grandfather comes to pick him up. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

So now I’m no longer the girl who sees colors, and I’m no longer the girl whose grandfather’s soul is in her cat. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I never really knew my grandfather but the mower seemed tough and friendly. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Her grandfather lay with his mouth wide open, a trickle of dried saliva crusted against his face. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Brodatt is not a Northern English name; it is a Russian name, I think, because her grandfather came from Russia. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“I am grandfather of two American,” he said to the woman in English. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Frances and her husband took him in for a while, until his maternal grandfather died and bequeathed Charles enough money to pay for college. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I see you’re just as stubborn as your grandfather. All right. You can go to the bathroom. I’m going to give you a chance to think things over,” Garcia said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was true, of course, what my dad had said: I did worship my grandfather. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“The faint flavour of the ghost of my grandfather hung in a friendly way about the place, house, garden and all.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her maternal grandfather, David Lloyd III, served on the school board. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

My grandfather’s there in an old British army uniform, feeding the machine dollar bills, but it takes a lot to buy a gun and we’re running out of time. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I knew I’d never be as strong as my grandfather, but I wasn’t a gutless weakling, either. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

A little creek trickled aslant the faded markings and there were the delicate pictorial indications of lowly huts, in one of which Ching’s grandfather had been born. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

My grandfather is young and nimble on his feet, stripped to the waist, a knife in one hand. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Earliest we know, we sprung from my grandfather, Augustus,” Miss Trotter began, but not without a few words of spite disguised as pity about Ma Charles. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She squints at it and asks, “Is that a rat on your grandfather’s shoulder?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The minute hand on her grandfather clock ticks another notch toward the top of the hour. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The mermaid hung below my heart like a pendulum on a grandfather clock. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

And in a way that only grandfather and granddaughter could do, together Cynthia and Cinder split open and laughter poured out of them. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Every Sunday my grandfather used to bring me an avocado pear hidden at the bottom of his briefcase under six soiled shirts and the Sunday comics. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I mentally chant a saying my grandfather taught me the day he met me, when I was six. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Junie, make sure your grandfather drinks lots of tea and let him rest, okay?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

My grandfather used to sing the songs and laugh about how silly they were. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

This is how we bury our dead—a silent parade through the streets, showing the world our sadness, others who knew my grandfather joining in on the walk, children waving, grown-ups dabbing at their eyes. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

My grandfather was getting old, and frankly he was starting to lose it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Pushed out of the daily operations at the Zebra Room, my grandfather began to spend his days driving around the city. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Girl, you’re smart enough to know everything your grandfather is going to say,” Duke said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had known many men, my grandfathers included, who were traditionally dressed Jews. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Where my grandfather was big and boisterous, my grandmother was calm, calculating, with a mind as sharp as anything. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Heads turn when my grandfather comes storming across the lunch court. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Sierra shot one last angry look at her grandfather and went downstairs to her room. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Born into a life of sumptuous privilege–his grandfathers were dukes, respectively, of Devonshire and Kent–he was the most gifted English scientist of his age, but also the strangest. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

My grandfather, born in 1912, was the grandson of slaves, the son of a millworker, and the oldest of what would be ten children in his family. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I thought this might be a good time to tell you that story I mentioned before, about my grandfather,” she said. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My grandfather, trying to be of help, drove off one day and returned with a stack of fifty plates. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He rarely got angry at him unless my grandfather said something mean about my mom or sister or made a scene in public. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

After the movie, my grandfather and I wait outside to get picked up. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

I look back at my grandfather in the kitchen. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather died last week,” she tells them, then kisses each one on the cheek. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

During his two visits, the grandfather had stood guard by the crib all day, speaking to little Carlos. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Be happy your mom will be there. Only my grandfather and TJ are coming. Tanisha was supposed to come, but I doubt it now.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And now I remembered that if I had returned home instead of coming north my father would have given me my grandfather's old-fashioned Hamilton, with its long, burr-headed winding stem. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather, who had two strokes and still didn’t talk too much, was lying near by. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if I could see things almost no one else could, it explained why Ricky hadn’t seen anything in the woods the night my grandfather was killed. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“It means that the Cornwalls would be even for grandfather and I for mother...” ”... not by using force against force, but by using our brains.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather is leaning forward on the recliner, listening to something Mr. Washburn is saying. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

One morning, when Joseph was exploring the room by himself, he found a broken watch and his grandfather surprised him by letting him keep it. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Hey, don’t knock it,” his grandfather said, grinning and glancing at him. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Genie had never met Dad’s dad, his grandfather, but he had met his grandmother once. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“You know what I am to your grandfather? What I’ve always been?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“No. I did not abandon you and your mother. I was taken from you. You are abandoning us by choice, the way your grandfather abandoned me.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

How angry Digger had been at the DiAngelos for buying his grandfather’s farm. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

My grandfather was out there somewhere, I was sure of it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

As I walked in, I saw my grandfather behind the counter. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are small,” my grandfather said, as if he could hear what I was thinking. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Greenville, my grandfather is too sick to work anymore, so my grandmother has a full-time job. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

At dusk, just as the fireflies flicker on, my grandfather makes his way home. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Right. See, your grandfather doesn’t know, but Lena does. We try to keep it our secret.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

As if recognizing their exhaustion, the grandfather announced that they would take a break. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

‘I saw my grandfather dead. That wasn’t long ago.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She said over and over, “Your grandfather’s passing is no excuse for this behavior.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t missed the note of pride that had entered his grandfather’s voice as he’d said that. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Every week since our release in August, Elsa had driven up from the capital to visit her elderly grandfather in La Vega. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the man left, your grandfather took out his own camera and started taking more pictures. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We filled the body of the grandfather clock with his empty daybooks, as if they were time itself. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Which is how my grandfather and my father and my sisters and I all came to be bom there, the first black family in the whole county. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The letter’s part of the reason I came here. My grandfather gave it to me. It’s from the Bird. That’s what you call your headmistress, isn’t it?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She gave the face of the grandfather clock another swipe with the dust rag. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

His grandfather Branwell retired to Naples, Florida after being an executive with General Motors. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that afternoon Blanca went to each of their special meeting spots, asking for him, shouting his name, even looking for him at the house of old Pedro Garcia, his grandfather. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His grandfather, of course, was Cool Papa Byrd on blues guitar. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

My big old grandfather who had always been strong and loud and cheerful now seemed pitiful, sad, and hopeless. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Lord Petyr's fa-ther had been the smallest of small lords, his grandfather a landless hedge knight; by birth, he held no more than a few stony acres on the windswept shore of the Fingers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I will never be short and probably not bald, if my dad and grandfathers are any indication. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s a weird habit. I look at it all the time, even though it always says 11:16. My grandfather gave it to me when I was little. I guess I should fix it.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Good lord, you look like someone’s arthritic grandfather.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The driver then loaded the back of the car with all their belongings, while the grandfather and grandmother got in the car with the son and his wife. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Joffrey had to step gingerly around it as he descended to embrace his grandfather and proclaim him Savior of the City. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It used to be Isaac’s grandfather’s hunting camp. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The day my grandfather tumbled his grandmother, Pancha Garcia, among the rushes of the riverbank, he added another link to the chain of events that had to complete itself. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had made it a lifetime ago, before the hot summer month when my grandfather and I had first recognized each other. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He steadied it on his palm and thought back to the battered cookie tin he’d found at his grandfather’s, the one with its heap of soldiers guarding the surprising photo. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Genie glanced warily at his grandfather, then went from cage to cage. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

My grandfather sees only the bearing in front of him, his hands removing it, grinding it, and putting it back as another appears. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Turner couldn’t help thinking of Lizzie’s grandfather, dug up and tossed around, not allowed to stay on the island where he had seen the sun rise and set ten thousand times. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

There’s definitely a strong resemblance, but if he really is my grandfather, why hasn’t Mama ever mentioned him to me? Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Lizzie put her arms around her grandfather, and he stroked her hands. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

My grandfather was the kind of man who had goons, bigger guys in suits that don’t fit, with sweat stains up their backs. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

How could I ever live up to my grandfather’s legacy? Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in here was the hidden history of her grandfather’s weird secret society, she was sure of it. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

There came a time when my grandmother’s brothers sold my grandfather and four of his colored children into the very cotton fields he freed himself from.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She was unwilling to criticize her grandfather, but what was she to do when her great-grandfather wanted her opinion? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But instead of choosing from the likely suspects—William Shakespeare, Thomas Jefferson, Harriet Tubman—I use my computer to look up the names my grandfather’s been batting around. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

But my grandfather has that covered this time. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“My grandfather’s house. My house. Everything that was mine.’ The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Ah, but I didn’t mean to go alone!” and Laurie walked fast through the room with an expression which it was well his grandfather did not see. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather would never have thought of it. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was traveling on the 83 Up Howrah-Ranchi Express to visit his grandparents for the holidays; they had moved from Calcutta to Jamshedpur upon his grandfather’s retirement from the university. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But my grandfather’s Third Wife was black with hair so soft that it would not hang, instead blowing up into a great brown puffball. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As my grandfather struggled to absorb this news, the short one leaned in. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

With minor variations, it always went like this: I’m crouched in the corner of my grandfather’s bedroom, amber dusk-light retreating from the windows, pointing a pink plastic BB rifle at the door. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He lived in a shack on the riverbank that had once belonged to his grandfather long time dead. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They were all painted by my grandfather when he retired. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s not for your father. It’s for your grandfather.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Eventually I discovered that my maternal grandfather had a white daddy. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“She must be hot. She probably doesn’t wear her grandfather’s plaid shirt.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

She explained that after her grandfather divorced her grandmother, he wed a white woman, and in 1931 he began to suspect that he was being poisoned—by his second wife. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My grandfather and I are in the kitchen the next day after school, and he’s complaining about my mother’s cooking. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

At times Alba caught her grandfather staring at Clara until he turned white and sweet, and looked like an old man they had never seen before. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I show up, I find that Mr. Daniels is no grandfather. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Was the tragic scene that had played out between my grandfather and me about to play out again, this time between Miss Peregrine and her teacher? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“I told my grandfather to pick me up at your house later tonight.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A loop,” I repeated, remembering my grandfather’s command: find the bird, in the loop. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

None of them could flatter me enough to make up for the fact that I had lost hours with my Notebook, my river, my specimens, and my grandfather. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I never knew Dad had a dog,” he said, passing the photo to his grandfather. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“My goodness. Hasn’t your grandfather told you anything about his old friends?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Sutpen drank himself now, though there were probably others beside Quentin’s grandfather who remarked that he drank very sparingly save when he himself had managed to supply some of the liquor. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because Polish law prohibited Jews from owning land, as had been the case for centuries for Jews in Europe, my maternal grandfather, Jacob Golner, leased his farmland from the Eastern Orthodox Church. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She changed it a few days ago, and when my grandfather saw it, he shook his head anti asked if she was working for the circus. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

She thrust her girlfriends into the circle and whispered to her little girl to plant the next kiss on her grandfather's nose. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

"Even if my grandfather actually comes by, how will I ever know it's him?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Even though my grandfather has a teenager’s body, he still has a seventy-six-year-old brain. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Jones made her a bed in the grandfather clock but Darling never used it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is such a wonderful record of your grandfather.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She said her father, my grandfather, Kirby, and Malloy were pretty much best friends, which is why she trusted him to look after me. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

One of fourteen children, my grandfather served as pastor of two churches south of Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Just a...research project,” he said, not looking at his grandfather. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

One Burke Allen was the father and the other Burke Allen was the grandfather, and the final Burke Allen was my Burke Allen. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The only semi-regular male figure in my life was my grandfather, my mother’s father, who was a force to be reckoned with. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Does Apa think I can be an important Park like our past grandfathers? A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

My grandfather stepped forward and handed Ultima the purse of silver which was required by custom. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let myself cry in my grandfather’s arms as he gently pats my back. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Other people don’t have a landlord grandfather and a rightist father. They don’t need to remold themselves.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He blanched at being called old, and I repeated it, adding insults I'd heard my grandfather use. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Brandon had decided earlier on a plan to approach his grandfather without revealing anything about the letter. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Where had I seen them before—and how did they know my grandfather’s name? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Wednesday night is laundry night—the clothes blowing clean on the line above my grandfather's garden. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Just at that moment, Alba entered the room and saw her grandfather reduced to her own height. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not imagine the face of my grandfather, my grandmother, whom I have never seen. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The next day, just as soon as his grandfather drives out of sight, Boy21 reaches into his over-the-shoulder bag and pulls out a brown robe made from bath towels safety-pinned together. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she turned with her grandfather to tell the gathering people of Malaga that times had moved on, and they would have to leave their homes. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Come in here and say hi to your grandfather,” Grandma said, setting the fork on the counter and stirring something in a copper pot. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Pray that we will always have this—the front porch, my grandfather in the garden, a woman in a blue-checked sunbonnet moving through azaleas . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

In the photos my grandfather is taller than everybody and my grandmother just an inch smaller. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The next day his grandfather drops him off at Erin’s house and he becomes my silent shadow once again. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought drinks to his mother and opened doors for his grandfather. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

From where she was standing she could see the window of the library, where her grandfather was speaking with a man. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like having three Indian grandparents, four if you count my dead grandfather. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Here. Take this note to your grandfather. Ask him to sign it so you have permission to go, and I will pick you up Saturday. Let’s say nine in the morning?” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I understand your grandfather was a fine musician.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“This truck is old enough to be your car’s grandfather — have some respect,” I retorted. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

My grandfather was like a dignified, unpainted mime, and I was almost five before I realized that anything was wrong with him. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I started to turn and leave when I thought of what my grandfather had told them. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the Galápagos, my grandfather shouted, ‘Unclean, unclean,’ whenever someone came near him.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I’d see it in DeeDee, the tough girl on my neighborhood block, and even in Dandy, my own grandfather, who could be rude and pushy even with his own wife. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Although his grandfather had been French, he was raised and considered himself Ojibwa and kept the rules of his mother’s dodem or clan, the catfish clan. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

But if it meant that I’d finally be able to put my grandfather’s mystery to rest and get on with my unextraordinary life, anything I had to endure would be worth it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Lizzie held close against her grandfather as the people of Malaga Island came out from the pine woods, gathering around their preacher on the shore to hear what had been said. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

All little Willy wanted to do was grow potatoes, but he respected his grandfather enough to do whatever he said. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z