And listening to my grandmother telling it, making up bits as she went along about the imaginary Mr. Palmer who was so set on exercising the underside of children’s forearms, I had to laugh again. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night I tried to write to my grandmother but no words came. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was once a cook shack, where his grandmother prepared food on an open fire. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They waited on the broad back porch while Dicey called her grandmother from the stove. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since that day when Didu fell in love with me, my grandmothers act like toddlers who want the same toy. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His niece, who looked a little like my grandmother, was with him. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The bracelet used to belong to her grandmother, but she had given it to Candice almost five years ago. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He would sit on his grandmother’s old knees, almost cracking them with his weight. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother had just met her, yet adored her. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

These were things from her mother, your grandmother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words reminded Candice of what her grandmother used to always say: Just because you don’t see the path doesn’t mean it’s not there. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You will voluntarily sunder my last knot, the final impediment to my independence, if I restore your grandmother to her human form?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It was only for a couple of days, until she took a look at this grandmother, to see for herself. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother lifted Bruno and me up so that we wouldn't miss any of the fun. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The one she would have liked and the one I used to like before...My grandmother fed me stories about a little blond child. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now even his grandmother wishes he would go to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother sipped at her cup of tea and Dicey drank at her milk. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something about those sheets that made me grown enough to take the whipping I had coming to me for the disrespect I was about to show my grandmother and great-grandmother. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Then he goes back inside the house to deal with my pop, who has recently returned legless from the hospital, clutching my dead grandmother’s rosary beads. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The question was, in what way was their grandmother not what she seemed. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was asking you about how your grandmother was,” he said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The program began, with the current mayor telling a very long and very boring story about her grandmother’s bravery and ingenuity. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Pita squeezed in with us and put her arms around our grandmother’s neck. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Hanako glanced at her bare feet, then looked up at her tiny, hopeful grandmother. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

With trembling hands, her grandmother had pressed her thumbs to the tears streaming down Ashima’s face, wiping them away. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Doha, you woke up? Come eat,” his grandmother said. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

There was a bar of light under their grandmother’s bedroom door. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even worse when my grandmother shook the box of cornstarch into the spray bottle, spilling clumps of white powder on the floor. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

"Or it might be a flea," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

My grandmother and I even said our prayers at home. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not the kind of baby hair her grandmother had soaped and played with and remembered for forty years. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie's grandmother had died a few months after she first called me, and his mother was still struggling after the tragedy of the shooting and Charlie's incarceration. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

While I eat, Madge and her grandmother talk loudly about the day. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“The picture of your grandmother on the beach was my favorite.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

My grandmother has always kept her long gray hair secured in a tight bun. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“No, your uncles talked the chief into arranging for us to be picked up by a Khmer Rouge truck. The truck will take us to Battambang. That is where your grandmother lives.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Call’s grandmother told him that when she was a child, there had been a young waterman by that name, the only child of Captain Charles Wesley Wallace. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or I could drive out to this Garland place and demand that the grandmother replace the funds Cap frittered away. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Ivy cried, running to her grandmother and flinging herself at the old woman’s feet. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She rolls fabric out for my grandmother to rub between her fingers. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Kaisha was named after her grandmother; Rawiya shared a name with an aunt on her mother’s side; and Reg’s shortened name helped him feel like he wasn’t just a copy of his older brother. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Helping him carry in groceries for his grandmother. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

His grandmother, the queen, lived in a high tower, where she spoke only of the other princes, past and present, who were born whole. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Socially awkward, withdrawn to everyone except my grandmother, he was unable to hold a job or live by himself. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“A full-time occupation with overtime. Your grandmother tells me that you do a lot of reading, too.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pilar is like her grandmother, disdainful of rules, of religion, of everything meaningful. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They visit New York every now and then, but the grandmother we share stays in their Manhattan penthouse all the time. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She cared for the goats and cared for the chickens and cared for her grandmother and her dragon and her swamp monster. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Oh, sure, it’s the darndest house you ever saw. Painted like Pepto-Bismol. Your grandmother surely’s seen it—you go through town on Main Street till it turns into the highway to Florence.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My grandmother’s jewelry. She had long jet necklaces. The pupils are filled with those beads. They flash in the light, make my friends seem alive.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She gets up, stands behind her grandmother, and puts her arms around her. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the nurse leaves, the grandmother’s face darkens and she turns her attention to me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine dragging my last name with me from sunup to sundown, but JimmyTrotter and his great grandmother wouldn’t have it any other way. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

But aside from Rowdy, and my parents and sister and grandmother, nobody would miss me. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Graham had accepted, gave her his grandmother’s diamond. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I took them down, folded them in tight rectangular squares, and brought them inside, where my grandmother, the ironing board, and two flaming irons waited for me. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

We walked through the footpath in my grandmother’s garden, toward the main road. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The grandmother swats her hand away and screams in protest. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember visiting my grandmother in it when I was little, and always wishing I lived there,” she’d said. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Cora’s grandmother was sold a few times on the trek to the fort, passed between slavers for cowrie shells and glass beads. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother dashes after her and grabs her. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It had reminded Candice of sudoku, a puzzle game her grandmother had first introduced her to. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Louisiana’s grandmother had a tissue in her hand, and she waved it back and forth in front of her face and said to no one in particular, “I am positively prostrate with grief.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

When the aging grandmother who grows forgetful and fears she is losing her mind comes to her, Miss Sadie, the diviner, comforts her. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

My grandmother was a large woman who looked as if she did everything in a big way. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little boy looks towards his grandmother, unsure of what to think. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

My invitingly plump grandmother stood in the doorway, her hair in a light Jheri curl and a smile settled so firmly across her face it seemed permanently engraved. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Liza sat with Cathy just enough to come to the conclusion that she was a sensible girl who didn’t talk very much or try to teach her grandmother to suck eggs. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At this moment the cottage door opened, and in the lamp glow that spilled across the grass, Winnie’s grandmother appeared. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a grandmother who lived with her. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

As I said, my grandmother was a tough lady who’d made her own bricks and was always putting me to work. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

My grandmother was beautiful and full of life. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

My grandmother's words come slowly meaning this lesson is an important one. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The others thought they knew; thought the grandmother’s reasons were the same as their own—that to pay respect to someone who had caused them M much pain was beneath them. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess you’ll be moving on tomorrow,” their grandmother said again. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey tried to look unconcerned with what her grandmother would say next. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

His grandmother told him that if he ever used words like that he would be beaten. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s no trouble,” I said loudly before my grandmother could interfere again. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh my, she did! Was it your grandmother’s dress?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

"Would you like me to tell you something about yourself that is very interesting?" my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

When her grandmother came back upstairs, April found out all about the new family. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am surprised to see her alone, with just her grandmother. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The chair is surprisingly comfortable, not like the stiff chairs at his grandmother’s, though they do look remarkably similar. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She gathers that he has inherited some money from his grandmother. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I squeeze my way out through the grandmothers and head to my room. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I heard my grandmother say that he’s keeping his head up but pretty soon he’s going to crash and bum. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has never occurred to either of them to question Ashima’s grandmother’s selection, to disregard an elder’s wishes in such a way. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The boys looked at each other and back at their grandmother. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered nights I had spent sitting with my grandmother by the fire. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

May Belle’s one living grandmother was in Georgia and never sent her anything. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be with my grandmother and my great-grandmother more than anything. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I answered the phone on the kitchen wall and heard my grandmothers voice. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their grandmother stormed up from the table and threw a dishcloth across at Maybeth. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just my grandmother, and I don’t really even remember her.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The grandmother pushed a sack of food into Jinjoo’s hands before quickly rushing after her son. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Just as I would always love and miss my grandmother, my big sister, and Eugene. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t about to let this grandmother keep them from it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the laws have changed my grandmother still takes us to the back of the bus when we go downtown in the rain. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

One morning she saw her grandmother opening the bird cages with inexplicable joy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their grandmother would rush on before they could answer. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in my grandmother’s lap, playing with her drop pearl earrings, when my mother told her we were leaving the country. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t like to complain to my grandmother, thinking she didn’t need to worry about my problems on top of her own, but she knew I was having a hard time. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Eventually, her thoughts turned to Amman, her family, and especially her late grandmother, who had always told her as a child that things happened for a reason. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I wanted very much to see what their fingers looked like and whether my grandmother had been right. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

She stood by the sink, drinking and chewing, and watching her grandmother knead the pale dough. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe you lost the coat your grandmother gave you,” I said. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Calder’s grandmother had once told him that he breathed patterns the way other people breathed air. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Those nights when I’d shudder awake from a nightmare, I’d remember my grandmother’s instruction to make a sign of the cross in the direction of my window. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But en route to Iran, their dad married off my grandmother's fourteen-year-old sister against her will. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I cashed in a savings bond left: to me by my grandmother and used the money to buy what I hoped would be enough speed to get me through the month. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Omakayas looked at her grandmother, remembering the time she had asked whether the plant medicines had ever spoken to her. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

My grandmother told my mom that my father was very sick and that he did not want to see anyone. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then she sat on the edge of the dock and held the boat steady with her feet while her grandmother lifted the motor up and rocked it into a resting position inside the boat. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have a whole family full of uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces, grandmothers, and whatnot. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I paint a series of watercolor sketches of my grandmother. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey could follow her grandmother’s thoughts easily now, now that she knew what the woman was talking about. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother’s eyes seemed big for her face as she stared at Dicey. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, she said she wanted you to go to your grandmother’s house.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

"Drive us to the station, please," my grandmother said, looking prim. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

We had already filed for permanent residency through my uncle, but once my grandmother became a green card holder, we decided to see if another application would be a speedier option. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I draw cartoons of my mother and father; my sister and grandmother; my best friend, Rowdy; and everybody else on the rez. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Luna threw herself to her knees, scooping her grandmother in her arms. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I never even knew I had a grandmother living in Brooklyn. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

What if her grandmother had put the letter there, on purpose? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I want a man with good hands, Anu told Ranee once when her grandmother asked what in the world she was looking for in a husband. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Is this about your grandmother getting fired from her job with the city?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My grandmother left the table and went into the kitchen. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

That the whole thing—the grandmother, his heritage, the bar mitzvah—was just the latest and most elaborate of the series of unfunny pranks that he and his idiot friends are famous for. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I will share stories of my own grandmother. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was my great grandmother Eveline who was killed by Dominican soldiers at the Massacre River. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

His grandmother had taught him to pray, but he had long since stopped doing that when she wasn’t around. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Tendons can be pretty bad,” their grandmother answered. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was only twelve years old when my grandmother died from severe burns that were allegedly inflicted upon her by my father. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You know, Nana—my grandmother—used to tell me stories about you.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes and lifted her left hand to her grandmother, palm out. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Our grandmother is the Countess of Cornwall,” agreed Gawaine, “and the bloody King of England fell in love with her.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the other room, I hear my grandmother crying. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“I said, I need my grandmother,” she almost shouted. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They looked, to my grandmother, like devout Muslims from Bursa, except for the color of their garments. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Coming to the surface from my last spasm, I told my grandmother about the Palmer method. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Louisiana’s grandmother put an entire block of orange cheese into her purse. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

For the first time the old hunched woman—is she Thresh’s grandmother?—raises her head and the trace of a smile plays on her lips. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We watch them back not asking what it feels like not to have a mother because our grandmother warns us we know better than that. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I fell asleep and dreamed the Yanquis were back, but it wasn’t my grandmother’s house they were burning—it was Pedrito’s and mine. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She imagined him, the boy who knew his grandmother was afraid of black men, now a man telling that story to the world to redeem himself. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We sat there in silence for a few moments while my grandmother went on stroking me very gently with one finger and puffing her cigar with the other hand. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

Girls as young as ten and women old enough to be grandmothers labored alongside her. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

It was hard for me to imagine Call’s tubby little grandmother taking a switch to a large fifteen-year-old boy, but I held my peace. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother wrote her sister letters over the years, but as in every good tragic story, her sister never received them. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

For as long as I could remember, An Yi’s grandmother had lived with her only child—An Yi’s mother, Teacher Wei—An Yi’s father, and her elder sister, who was blind. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know right away it’s his Lola—which Kaori told me means “grandmother”—because she looks about a hundred years old. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

For me, that started to come about in the fall of 1967, when I left Parkside Houses in the Bronx for college, or as someone’s grandmother once called it, “sleepaway school.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t cry like that,” my grandmother reproached her. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have been having these awful dreams,” Emilie whispered as she plucked some leaves off my grandmother’s pumpkin vines. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Sisters, mothers, grandmothers: everything was rooted in the past! The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sunny said she had heard Big Rose was homeschooled by her grandmother and only came here for after-school. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She hated her grandmother and had hidden it from herself all these years under a cloak of pity. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He tells her his true mother is his grandmother Maria. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t have a grandmother of my own, so it’d be an honor if I could call you Nana too.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

From work, Helmuth borrows an official swastika stamper that makes each flier look like an official government notice, and his grandmother gets used to the constant thump-thump she hears each night at the kitchen table. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

After my mother leaves, my grandmother pulls us further into the religion she has always known. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She didn’t argue with Babulya because she didn’t remember the passage well enough, and coming at her grandmother half-informed was a terrible mistake. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

‘Just promise to pull my father’s fields closer to his house as soon as you have finished with your grandmother’s.’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Before your grandmother sends out a search party.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was speaking directly to your grandmother about you.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I roll up the sleeves and put on the charm bracelets that each of my grandmothers got me for my tenth birthday. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

They died with their mothers and their grandmothers and their sisters and their aunties. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

We unpacked all the stuff she brought, which really was leftover fried chicken and mashed potatoes from her grandmother’s funeral. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Ma is draped in one of the white widow's saris our grandmother sent from Calcutta. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Very softly, she half sang, half hummed a song that her grandmother used to sing to her when she was a little girl. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Like my grandmother, he had once believed that girls did not need to be educated. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She was, for the first time, taller than her grandmother. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

According to Louisiana’s grandmother, the authorities were on a rampage, and it would be a good idea for Louisiana to be “far, far away from the Elefante homestead.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Do you want to know the very best thing about my grandmother? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

"It's going to be very dangerous," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Melanie didn’t know much about the new girl except that her name was April and that she had come from Hollywood to live with Mrs. Hall, who was her grandmother. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where the musty smell of books greets me like the perfume in our grandmother's embrace. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“There’s probably food in the kitchen. Would you give me a few minutes alone with my grandmother? I think she—” His voice broke. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

My grandmother was so excited that her words fell over each other as she tried to relay the news to my grandfather and Aunt Margaret and talk over the phone at the same time. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dinner, James asked their grandmother about the books. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily saw her grandmother who lived in Vermont maybe once a year, and the rest of her grandparents had passed away. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Take care of my baby, your grandmother had said, which was to say Take care of your new family. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They sat on the edge of the potato bed and talked for a while, about Lina’s grandmother and the baby, about the trouble Clary was having with the beehives, and about the greenhouse sprinkler system. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I find the grandmother, she is in the process of having her bandages changed by a nurse. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother and my grandfather and my Aunt Libby were all still Catholics. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The grandmother comes out to look at the package. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though my grandmother and I didn't ever speak about it again, it was a terrible experience that bonded us. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My grandmother Rose was a tough woman, so tough she’d built the family home with her own hands while my grandpa worked as a tailor in the market. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

What had led her grandmother to dig up this court? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My grandmother, too, followed their orders, except that she didn’t seem to be servile because she anticipated their needs. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

What would Park's grandmother say if he did introduce her to Eleanor? Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

They were well-intentioned, community-minded women, often single mothers or grandmothers, the type who inevitably stepped in to help when no one else would volunteer. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe Siobhan would have become the first black city manager, not her grandmother. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother had made them more than once. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

My grandmother had said that with their special nose-holes they could smell out a child on a pitch-black night from right across the other side of the road. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I suddenly remembered her grandmother under the white sheet, and everything became clear. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amaranta, the younger, was somewhat graceless, but she had the natural distinction, the inner tightness of her dead grandmother. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I turned and saw my grandmother, her back looking a little more hunched in her dirty sari. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His grandmother had taught Doreen to cook when she was young, telling her only daughter that men didn’t care about school, only a woman who could cook, clean, and keep her mouth shut. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Barack, meanwhile, had listened to Toot, his white grandmother, make offhanded ethnic generalizations and even confess to her black grandson that she sometimes felt afraid when running into a black man on the street. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When my mother and grandmother told the story of our births, it was mostly of how Caroline had refused to breathe. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That day I also thought about my grandmother and her final days in the Princeton Hospital. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, the math didn’t get done; but as it turned out, it didn’t really matter, because April stayed home from school the next day, and her grandmother took the day off, too. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of Big Ma saying “Welcome to the family” to Miss Hendrix, my grandmother put her foot down about Miss Hendrix coming along with us. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I'd never seen my grandmother giggle so hard in my life. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I will not have this talking back!” their grandmother snapped. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tap tap tap...tap tap tap...Would my grandmother hear me? The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Letters arrive from her parents, from her husband’s parents, from aunts and uncles and cousins and friends, from everyone, it seems, but Ashima’s grandmother. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother looked at Bruno who was guzzling away in the bowl of bananas. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

A long time ago, even before the time of my grandmother, the emperor called all the kings of his land to his Spring Festival celebration. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Growing up, I never knew that my grandmother lived in the center of a bull’s-eye. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

"There's nothing funny about this," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The adults in Volpe’s household—his mother, father, and maternal grandmother—spoke Italian to one another, but not to him or his younger sister, Rosemary. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Your father can still do no wrong in your grandmother’s eyes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes her grandmother told her things, or Glerk told her things, but their words flew from her mind as soon as they were said. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

"My grandmother taught it to me," he says. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I had to get out of that kitchen and back to my grandmother. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

In their world, the Twelve Towns, a child’s name was a prophecy, passed down from a grandmother or the Town Gran, their leader. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“But you,” the emperor continued, looking at Pinmei, “you must know a story of your grandmother’s. You tell one.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

My grandmother was half Irish so that makes me half, quarter? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was crushing to watch my grandmother slowly die, and yet it felt like I had been divinely placed there by Allah to take care of her. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

When I was a baby, we all went to Bayamón, Puerto Rico, for my grandmother's funeral. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

An inquisitive boy once asked his grandmother why elephants and hyenas lived so far away from people. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Richard made some eggnog from a German recipe his grandmother gave him, and they all ended up singing a lot while I wrapped presents in my room. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

When we got back to the bedroom, my grandmother took both me and Bruno out of her handbag and put us on the table. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I saw my grandmother and for a split second, I didn’t know whose bed she was at until I saw the person in it. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

First, Hassan and Aziz had a baby girl—my grandmother, my mother’s mother—and the only person who didn’t visit was the physician. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She had just saved him, but she’d broken her grandmother’s cardinal rule: Don’t stand out. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother snored in the swing bed on the other side of the room, taking in each breath as though it was filtered through a handful of muck. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When the actors came to the village and set up their scaffolding, my grandmother bought a large section up front. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The couple bought a house on Sedgewick Road, hired a maid, joined the country club; Mrs. Richardson’s grandmother found a stable for her horse, Jackson, and became a member of the Flowerpot Garden Club. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“With my mom the way she is lately, I’m worried Thanksgiving’s going to stink. My grandmother usually cooks for us. I dream all year about her apple cake.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He immediately began to think of Nani, his grandmother with the hairy mole on her neck jowls. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My grandmother wrote in her notebooks that bore witness to life for fifty years. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And your grandmother, who was abandoned by her father. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“That is no concern of mine,” my grandmother said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

In a playful manner, the way grandmothers do with babies, he was sucking the fingers of one of the women, whose laughter filled a tiny place over, his head. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her anything, you know, and after a while it got so that I couldn’t see my grandmother anymore and keep doing what I was doing, hanging out in Harlem. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the movies, kids get fishing trips with their grandpas, and grandmothers give them hugs. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Three days later, the mother sends me to bring food to the grandmother in the hospital. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alma would say thanks, would show a slight expression of guilt, and would kiss her grandmother on the cheek. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

My sisters and I became six knees in shorts galloping toward our grandmother. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

By day, my grandmother expertly managed a thriving Bible bookstore on the Far South Side, but in her off-hours with Dandy she was reduced to a meekness I found perplexing, even as a young girl. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“That’s my grandmother,” the girl said, voice hushed, eyes glued to the flame. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother put the basket on the table. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother was the only one who thought it was a 100 percent good idea. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“For a human. No offense to your grandmother, but what we need are the original weavers.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It made me think of Gran all over again, and so I pretended to talk with Dinah like she was my grandmother. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was a mosaic of her grandmother Rommely’s mysticism, her tale-telling, her great belief in everything and her compassion for the weak ones. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Call’s cuss words were taught to him by his sainted grandmother and tended to be as quaint as the clothes she made for him. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We filed two applications—one through my uncle, and one through my grandmother. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Winnie’s mother and grandmother sat plaintive all afternoon in the parlor, fanning themselves and sipping lemonade, their hair unsettled and their knees loose. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Seriously—those things are fine, but they’re not, you know, important. So when I found out that stuff about my grandmother, I wasn’t sure what to do. But I couldn’t just do nothing.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

His grandma kept calling it his room, but he only ever called it the guest room, which always made his grandmother shake her head and mumble to herself. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“My mother and my father too Jived in Tuxedo. I almost never saw them. I lived with my grandmother who said, ‘Felice, they don’t live in Tuxedo; they work there and live with us.’ Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not into lobster. And your grandmother spoiled my appetite.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He thought of the corn his grandmother had been going to give him. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Louisiana’s grandmother raised her left eyebrow and then her right one. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“And I need to be near my grandmother.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She was sure her grandmother had done good things as city manager too. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Hmph. Go on, then, and run that extra wire back to the barn. Then clean up for dinner. Hurry up, now—your grandmother’s waiting.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And then Zola turns to me and says, “Where is Vinny’s mother? And father? How come he lives with his grandmother?” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now, looking back, my mom thinks my grandmother went through bouts of clinical depression. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Someone who wouldn’t say anything too bad about her grandmother. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I promised myself that the next time I saw my grandmother, I’d ask her about Korea. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Despite the lack of physical chemistry, her cousin-turned-husband lived up to his reputation as a compassionate and caring spouse who meant my grandmother no ill will. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My playmates and I carved them and played war games in the coffee farms and unfinished buildings at my grandmother’s village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She liked the way her grandmother said one thing and then the opposite, because it made sense to Dicey, the same kind of sense Dicey made to herself. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let him curse and I remember him falling down the cellar steps, and howling, and I remember, with pain, his tears, which my hand or your grandmother’s so easily wiped away. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

But he’s not nodding his head or pushing my hair behind my ear and his grandmother’s ring is sitting on Mother’s velvet sofa like some ridiculous metaphor. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was at my stepmother's grandmother's house, and she's about ninety years old, so we were back home in front of the TV by nine. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Don’t argue, girl,” her grandmother said to Dicey, just as Dicey was opening her mouth to say she wasn’t going to leave Maybeth there alone. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anya ran to her grandmother, wanting to hug her but not wanting to disturb her magic. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I’m not gonna let that happen. Listen, I’m telling you right now, I will physically fight your grandmother myself if I have to, okay? And, like, she’s old. I know I can take her.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

"When your mother said that she was divorcing your father and wanted to move to New York where she grew up, my grandmother set things up with Dr. Gershom." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

We got to eating quickly—that’s the way of my family—and if my grandmother felt uncomfortable with the white food, she didn’t say anything. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The only two adults in the Johnson family who don't get along now are my grandmothers. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

With all that’s been happening, I hadn’t even thought about my grandmother. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Jump in, grandmother,” he said to her, pushing open the door. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

So goes a famous Pashtun tapa, a couplet my grandmother taught me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He imagined what his grandmother would say: Frank Zhang riding to the rescue? The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

My grandmother lit into me at suppertime, but to my surprise my father quietly took my part. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would see her grandmother, after all, even if for one last time. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma was waving something around, and when Genie’s eyes finally focused for real, he saw the last thing he ever expected to see in his grandmother’s hand—a fistful of bottle rockets! As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But my grandmother wanted us to forgive her murderer. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He would cry over the strangest things,” she said, “like a dead dog on the side of the road or a smell that reminded him of his grandmother.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Don’t think about it, darling,” said the grandmother. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“We’ve met your grandmother before, when she came to trade livestock and gold,” said Rosa. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a secretary, my mom was bringing home more money than anyone else, and my grandmother insisted it all go to the family. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“He’s in Puerto Rico for my grandmother’s funeral. But he should be back on Saturday. I’ll tell him as soon as he gets home.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“He’s older than your grandmother,” I kept saying to myself. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Even your grandmother laughed at the sight of us as we got out of the car." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Why do both grandmothers have to be so...voluptuous? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His grandmother never asked him what he wanted for breakfast. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then the woman who is not my grandmother shuffles out of the kitchen, leaving me alone with the mysterious box. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Your mother who looked like your grandmother and her grandmother before her. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

A grandmother is much better at this sort of thing than any newfangled dot-com. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Your grandmother was brave. Just like my ma. Your mother, too?” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking about that time I cut my grandmother’s coat up when I was five. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice invited me to look up, to sympathize with a poor old grandmother. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Twice a year, at Christmas and in the summer, we went back to Norway to visit my grandmother. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

On the last day of her visit, I drove your grandmother to the airport. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m pitiful,” she said, just as her grandmother did sometimes when praying. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

His mother sells houses—a lot of them in The Farm—and for reasons too complicated to tell, Noah Gershom was best man at my grandmother Draper's wedding early last summer. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother split a pea pod with her thumbnail and sent the peas plummeting into the pan. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grandmother’s hair was gray and her face was wrinkled, but other than that she looked exactly like her granddaughter. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He eyed the green brocade purse that had belonged to Calixte’s grandmother. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She was almost as tall as her grandmother, but now the woman loomed above her, standing on the dock. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said goodbye to my grandmother and went back to the dduk. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The disappearance of his grandmother’s dresses, hats, sewing machine, and gardening books didn’t bother Clayton. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Maybe now, Mama Lessie, no other black child’s beloved grandmother will have to die beneath the dripping water pipes in a cold, dingy hospital basement. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother has custody of me and my sisters because my mother has a mental illness. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after the Prophet’s disappearance, my grandmother underwent a fairly novel medical procedure. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"Where is that grandson of yours?" he said to my grandmother. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Reggie returned home long enough to grab some clothes and kiss his grandmother good-bye, then Coach Douglas instructed him to lie down in the back seat until they reached the state line. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For a second she didn’t seem happy, and Hanako worried that she had somehow offended her grandmother. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

People called it when her grandmother’s assistance was needed—in a birth, maybe. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

On the fifth floor, I raced along the corridor to the door of my grandmother's room. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Mom claimed ownership of my grandmother’s wedding gown while she was in hospice. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Of course, he denies having anything besides what he took to the pawnshop. He claims the jewelry belonged to his grandmother. ‘Nothing wrong with pawning what’s mine,’ he said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Good-bye, Mamaw,” Ben said to his grandmother as she kissed him on the mouth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This had been made for her by her grandmother, who was very kind to her. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“She doesn’t like you? I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother had not been fearful of such signs of betrayal; she was the only person to predict, rightly, that Ashima would never change. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Only my nose and eyes were above the clasp of my grandmother's handbag, but I had a super view. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Mothers and grandmothers were floating among the tables with smiles on their faces as they touched and picked up all the fun things on display. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My grandmother leans back in her brown chair, her feet still in the Epsom salts water, her fingers tapping out some silent tune. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

"When a queen bee dies, there is always another queen in the hive ready to take her place," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Luna’s grandmother used to be bulbous and squat—all soft hugs and squishy cuddles. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The grandmother, as it turned out, lived in New York City, in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and had been searching for her daughter for three and a half years, exactly Sergio’s age. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Neither do I. It’s a silly idea. Your grandmother wasn’t one for such nonsense.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They’d scared me then, and they scared me now—three ghoulish grandmothers with bags of knitting needles and yam. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

With love, Your grandmother I had a letter from everyone I knew. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

His grandmother would pack small packages of food for Doha and Yuni to deliver to the elderly. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Like I remember this one, where the oldest son, Billy, and his younger siblings are watching their grandmother talk on the phone, and it just said, Grandma’s phone is really old-fashioned. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Tony, who was about to become a father—making Mary a thirty-six-year- old grandmother—had been right. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Alba was seated between her grandmother and mother, with a cushion on her chair so that her nose would reach her plate. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was her own grandmother’s advice that had saved her life. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

"My grandmother says it's beautiful in the summer, green and warm." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Candice’s grandmother had only owned her house there for a few years before she moved to Atlanta, but she kept the house as a furnished rental property. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My grandmother quit shelling and looked straight at me. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is what your grandmother once told me,” explained my mother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the grandmothers sweeping the stairs closed their eyes and held their heads back as they celebrated their sweet desolation. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tells my grandmother: Will you push, will you, push. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But she just closed her eyes and leaned against Baachan and smelled her musty smell, a kind of old smell, the smell of your grandmother. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She went to morning day camp and stayed in the apartment with her grandmother, mostly. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Although I was very young, I was not prepared to believe everything my grandmother told me. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

We had two shanties in the backyard that my grandmother would rent out to migrants and seasonal workers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother, Gloria Grace, the woman who Grace shared her name with, had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer a month before Grace had been born, and died right after Grace’s first birthday. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Up to now, my grandmother had been right every time. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

While both my grandmothers led extraordinary lives marred by drama and tragedy, they were ultimately very different women. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

After he’d been rescued and gone home, his mother had put the hatchet in a glass case in the living room, where she kept the china handed down by her grandmother. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

"You are still going to brush your teeth after very meal," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother doesn’t approve of much of anything, it seems. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She heard her grandmother, singing an old song as she stirred something fragrant in the kettle. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Well, my grandmother has left this world and she’s now roaming around the afterlife. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother carried me through into my own bedroom and out on to my balcony. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

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

After that, I felt like my destiny was not my own, that men who had nothing to do with me had the power to rupture my dreams, to separate me from my grandmother. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There are all sorts of rumours," my grandmother answered. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Omakayas helped her grandmother carefully push the bark aside, then the two peeled it away strip by strip. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

All day, Omakayas and her grandmother worked hard retying the intersections on last year’s willow frame. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It's easier, my grandmother says, than having white folks look at me like I'm dirt. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m worried about her,” she said out loud when her grandmother was out of earshot. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She thought of what the grandmother had just said. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

When I went up to look at my grandmother, I saw her through the haze of a veil draped over the open lid of the casket. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, he must be all right,” said her grandmother. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made me tremble with fear because I knew he had tried to kill my grandmother. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

My grandmother said I have standing up, North of Ireland, Presbyterian hair. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t pay in money, of course, or put it on the Compucount: we used other things, some jewelry that was my grandmother’s, a stamp collection Luke inherited from his uncle. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

James looked in the nylon bag that held his grandmother’s vegetables. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

On her latest trip to New York City, my grandmother had taken her unmarried daughter, Mimi, along. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

And I know that’s a hilarious thing to say about your grandmother. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our grandmother used to fuss with us so much that all we heard was the fussing and not the words. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was about her grandmother as well, about fixing her legacy. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I told her that too,” my grandmother said as she discarded the mint leaves. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

G’ma obviously loved him enough to marry him, and Dad’s always saying, “William, your grandmother is a queen. Never forget it.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother had taught Luna, when she was a little girl with scabby knees and matted hair, how a caterpillar lives, growing big and fat and sweet-tempered, until it forms a chrysalis. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

In 1863 it did not mean your mother or your grandmother, and it did not mean you and me. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

"What a very disagreeable little boy you are," my grandmother said to him. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

They spoke no more about the strange woman that night, but long after Ivy was asleep, her grandmother sat awake, staring into the fire. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother who had been a force of nature all these years—a pillar, holding up the sky. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When my family visited my aunt’s house in San Francisco, my grandmother searched for me among my many cousins. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pass a closed door, behind which the grandmother waits for me to leave. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Yes,” the old man said, “my grandmother would not leave this hill. She said the whole world could be seen from here.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

After a minute, Minerva picked up the tale again, speaking in the heavily accented voice of her grandmother. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

When they get back, my cousin and grandmother both look exhausted. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I couldn't believe my grandmother would be lying to me. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

My grandmother with her charm, gaudy and perishable as dime-store jewelry—whoever had a more exasperating child to contend with? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The navy needed ships, they said, and it didn’t matter what his grandmother said or how she begged—they cut the trees down. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She sat with her back to her grandmother and watched the prow of the little boat cut through the quiet water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako knew this was because her grandmother was happy to see them. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I knew very well the power of my own mother and grandmother. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It all depended on what their grandmother was really like, inside herself where she was who she really was. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hope for my grandmother’s recovery faded day by day as I sat in the basement of Princeton Hospital and watched her suffer. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I wipe my sweaty face with a towel and force myself to return my grandmother's proud smile. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Percy was relieved when the demon grandmothers closed in for the kill. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Omakayas remembered the tiny whited pit in the skin of her grandmother’s cheek, but was still surprised to hear that Nokomis, too, had suffered the disease. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

How could an able-bodied teenager allow his grandmother to scale a plum tree? Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Ipuda, my beautiful girl,” my grandmother said, and that was when I remembered the promise I’d made to myself at Dari’s house. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Supper done and my grandmother has transformed the kitchen into a beauty shop. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

When I do, he procrastinates or tells me to ask my grandmother. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Frank had been thinking about his grandmother and his mom, wondering if they might appear to him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Enjoy it,” her grandmother had bellowed in her thundering voice, helping Ashima to straighten. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"You're a magician!" my grandmother shouted, starting to wave her stick about once again. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

She’d heard that phrase a lot when her grandmother first passed away, but she never knew the right way to respond. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We arrived at Kabati, my grandmothers village, around two in the afternoon. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He said it felt like it was dancing, and then he would have to get up and dance, whirling her grandmother around the kitchen until they were both exhausted. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Suppose one of those people who saw us at Central recognizes you and tries to pick a fight? What about the risk to your grandmother?” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve just come to live in the apartment house next door, with my grandmother. I used to live in Hollywood with my mother.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were not her mother’s and grandmother’s times. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time there was a grandmother who didn’t tell the truth. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

His grandmother had filled the wall behind the TV with framed eight-by-ten photographs. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“My father is missing. My grandmother died on that train. I cannot find any of my aunts. Yente and Rachel are gone.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when his grandmother died—he got the news in the middle of a lecture and kept right on teaching. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“What kind of boy is he?” one shouted as Jasmine and her sister Juliette stepped into the elevator with Richard’s grandmother. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Both my father and my grandmother believed that Jagu’s and Rajesh’s mental illnesses had been precipitated—even caused, perhaps—by the apocalypse of Partition, its political trauma sublimated into their psychic trauma. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Some Fridays, we walk to downtown Greenville where there are some clothing stores, some restaurants, a motel and the five-and-dime store but my grandmother won't take us into any of those places anymore. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

They made their way back to Matthew, stopping a couple of times for James to pick up some produce and other items from the farmers’ market for his mom and grandmother. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And then my grandmother was talking—about her recent trip to Korea and her archnemesis neighbor and her forty-two-year-old boyfriend who she insists we call Uncle Gene. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Old witches become enchantresses, and kindly grandmothers hide forests of secrets behind their twinkling eyes. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The good part for him is to read everything and argue about what he’s read with my mother and grandmother and the friends they play cards with. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your grandmother wouldn’t like it if I talked to you about novels,” she told me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents were away for the weekend, and my grandmother was in charge of watching us. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He groans and grunts while he reads and once in a while he laughs, but he’d never give it up even though all that reading worries his blood, my grandmother said. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I had finished, it was my grandmother who was trembling. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

When my mom started working, she still lived with my grandmother in Soweto, the township where the government had relocated my family decades before. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

"But your main job, of course," my grandmother said, "would be to destroy every witch in the place. That really would be the end of the whole organisation!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Now he’s laid out on the sailboat of the gentle sea, smiling and calm, while I write at the blond wood table that belonged to my grandmother. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I see. Make sure my grandmother doesn’t see you,” Luna said. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I shake my head but then realize my grandmother can’t see me. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

What if her grandmother became injured in the woods? The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Before my cousin arrived, I thought my grandmother would die soon. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grandmother with nine hundred heads killed each ox, skinned it, and tossed it into her enormous cooking pot. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Ashima had gone to visit her; for the occasion her grandmother had entered the kitchen after over a decade’s retirement, to cook Ashima a light goat and potato stew. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their grandmother, already dressed in shirt and skirt, stood by the sink. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thinks of the cream-colored cardigan bought with her grandmother in mind, sitting in a shopping bag in the closet. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The journey part does seem to favor his grandmother’s side, though, even if Cambridge is not very far. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Quang-ha has the television remote, and he moves through the channels in a way that a grandmother might turn the pages of a speedboat catalog featuring water skis. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The small town's cozy, winding streets and stooped buildings enfolded my fear like a grandmother's arms. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I finished up, of course, back in my grandmother's house with her arms around me tight and both of us crying the whole night long. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Even though James’s grandmother was barely taller than Emily and swam in one of James’s old Angry Birds shirts, she was still quite intimidating. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Elsbeth must have had a new one installed when her parents moved in with her grandmother, and she and Rolf took over her childhood home. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

After church, we head to Roger’s grandmother’s house for Sunday dinner. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“He looks at me as if he wasn’t my son, as if he wants to strangle me,” he tells Enrique’s grandmother. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“My grandmother has never destroyed anything. She is good and kind and caring. Ask the people of the Free Cities. They know.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They stare back at us, blank-eyed and beautiful silent and still. down the road Be careful when you play with him, my grandmother warns us about the boy with the hole in his heart. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter that there were six of us in the bed, we were together, away from grandmothers and guards, Malachy could say ye ye ye and we could laugh as much as we liked. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We know even the feel of our grandmother's brush being pulled gently through our hair will fast become a memory. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I can remember when we used to visit her there on weekends when my grandmother first got custody of us. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"How are you feeling, my darling?" my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

In his head he listed his grandmother’s produce. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and his folks were up in the mountains at Tallulah Falls, visiting his grandmother. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And all the while I’d listen to the sound of my grandmother’s voice. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was downtown, shopping; she was standing on the street talking to your grandmother when he rode past. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was fourteen years old, I was sent to spend ten days with my maternal grandmother in western New York State. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I was standing on a chair in front of the stove, wearing a pink dress my grandmother had bought for me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother looked straight at her, her mouth chewing. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

James’s grandmother gripped a wooden spoon in one hand and pursed her lips, waiting. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Candice could recite by memory the story about how her grandmother had put herself through college while raising two kids. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was a bold move on my grandmother's part, and though we could all revel in the romance of it, it was a love affair that destroyed multiple lives and scandalized an entire family. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, while the grandmother and I are outside the hut, squatting near the well scrubbing pots and pans, I hear the unmistakable whizzing of bullets around me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother was the only grandmother I ever met who smoked cigars. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother began to pull herself to her feet, and Luna hovered, trying to help. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Each secret, each unspoken thing was round and hard and heavy and cold, like a stone hung around the necks of both grandmother and girl. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

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

He was studying his grandmother, as if he was hungry too, but for something not food, hungry in a way that food could never fill. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Rose Johnson is a teacher here," she informs Dr. Williams, as if he doesn't know the school employs Shanti's other grandmother. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“There’s a mass and then a big party. Everyone gets dressed up and dances a lot. It’s supposed to mark the transition to womanhood. My grandmother has been planning mine since I was, like, two.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“His clinic always has so much to sew, and my grandmother can’t do too much because her eyesight has gotten bad.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

"She is the ruler of them all," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The next morning, we sailed for England and soon I was back in the old family house in Kent, but this time with only my grandmother to look after me. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

"Ah"—my grandmother rolled her eyes—"another Beethoven!" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Each day Ivy and her grandmother walked in the great forest, where Gran collected herbs and leaves that she made into remedies to heal the villagers of their aches and pains. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother waited by the stove, stirring in the pan. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother’s cursive was terrible—no one could read it, so we can’t make any of her recipes now. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

My grandmother had no use for all the gay bashing and homophobia in the world, especially among other Indians. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother picked me up off the table and kissed me on the nose. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

For supper that evening my grandmother had a plain omelette and one slice of bread. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Dicey made herself stop thinking about the sailboat in her grandmother’s barn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back when my great-grandmother passed we were all at my grandmother’s house, trying to clean it up so she could come home to a house of happiness. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran past her grandmother, slipping around her outreached arms, and made her way to Parker. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It is early spring when my grandmother sends for us. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

My grandmother and my mother were such good cooks that I left everything to them. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

My grandmother reached over and covered one of my hands in both of hers. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought of James’s grandmother and her scolding tone, and she started to feel anxious that she would do or say the wrong thing. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“For example,” the teacher went on, “the story I'm about to tell you was sewn into a quilt my own grandmother made, so it’s very special to me.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother Lucy had told her that a lady never sneezes, burps, runs, screams, or cries in public. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Your grandmother’s not in a coma, you know.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

They came with woolen caps and names given to them by their mothers, or grandmothers, or somebody’s best friend. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother’s mouth worked, and she looked surprised, as if she hadn’t understood what it was they were fighting about this time. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked her to go dancing; she said, “No, thank you, I have to call my grandmother.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“An old grandmother is not enough company for a child,” Amah said, her smile fading. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

His grandmother had not needed to grow her favorite herb, arigbe, because it grew wild everywhere. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The grandmother looks down at her granddaughter and explains, "Your mother." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother’s mouth twisted in her sudden smile. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will let you rest now,” said my grandmother. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Tuesday nights, the prayer meeting came to my grandmother’s house, and I was always excited, for two reasons. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She had never told him that his own grandmother had died in a concentration camp. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

And so it was that Ivy put her grandmother's cloak around her shoulders and opened the door, only to find a village girl standing on the stoop. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It sounded like a fairy tale when Ellen told it later to your grandmother, only it was a fairy tale written for and acted by a fashionable ladies’ club. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came back into the bedroom, picked up the phone, and called my grandmother. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Our grandmother tells us this as she sets a small hat with a topaz pin on her head, pulls white gloves over her soft brown hands. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I asked like you’d ask about somebody’s grandmother, just being polite. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Just before we left for Bournemouth, my grandmother had given me, as consolation, a present of two white mice in a little cage and of course I took them with me. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The other children aren’t here, even the young boy, but the grandmother is. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever I reached peak frustration levels, my parents liked to remind me that my grandmother had had a difficult life and that I needed to practice compassion. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My grandmother picked up her walking-stick and out she went into the corridor to the lift. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I've been tolerating my grandmother's time in the deep end without saying much, but that changes on Sunday morning. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Neither do I. He loves violence—so long as there’s no danger in it for himself—the way he loves whiskey. He’d join a mob to murder his own grandmother.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

As my grandmother remembered it, their land had been large enough in those days for real grass to grow in a pasture, enough to support one of the few cows in the island’s history. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m a grandmother now. My daughter in Los Angeles has two beautiful little daughters. And when I dance now, I dance for them.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Your grandmother would roll over in her grave, Miss America,” Dad says. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Laid out on the end tables were the same sorts of white crocheted doilies that my grandmother Shields used to have at her house. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He had to string along the stupid Jewish girl with that phony story about his grandmother and the Holocaust. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The caterpillar goes into the chrysalis, her grandmother had said. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It’s her grandmother calling to wish her a happy Thanksgiving. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Conor started, but his grandmother clapped her hands together, just the once, but loud, loud enough to stop him. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Back in 1933, a disembodied voice had spoken to my grandmother through the heating grate. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then a sort of nagging guilt that I should take such pleasure in my grandmother’s discomfort. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Me too,” my grandmother said, pulling me close for a hug. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

My grandmother raised me until this past summer. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know how to answer him and started to cry so my grandmother said, ‘Sonny, go somewhere and sit down,’ and my mother said, ‘Walter, shut up about all that to her.’ Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The image of her grandmother assaulting another slave didn’t jibe with Cora’s recollections of the woman, but once she started tending to the plot she understood the truth of the portrait. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

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

“My grandmother—Gram—she died,” I blurt out. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“But it’s for the best. Carmen and her grandmother will be together again.” I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Of course, my parents and grandmother were in shock. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He pulls away to beam at me, and the next thing I know, my quiet, reserved grandmother steps right up to the glass to drink in the paper chain and everything it represents. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Grandma’s pies had to be mincemeat because that’s what her grandmother did. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

"Of course there are other things," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“You only tease your poor grandmother when we are alone.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother seemed to feel the same way. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was all her grandmother could do to keep her in paper and quills. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They had inherited the furniture from Coraline’s grandmother, along with a wooden coffee table, a side table, a heavy glass ashtray, and the oil painting of a bowl of fruit. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

My grandmother looked towards the long tables but said nothing. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Beware of the brokenhearted,” said the grandmother, “for they will lead you astray.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

A few folks, especially the grandmothers, thought I was a brave little dude for going to a white school. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a nice gesture, but Candice didn’t care much about having her grandmother’s name on a building. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My grandmother grunts and says, “Far, far away.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

And so Alma Ember began her studies and lived with her grandmother in the mostly peaceful Georgia town, allowing herself to be troubled only by portfolio deadlines and country-club luncheons. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was as if Sherm and his grandmother supported themselves while a windstorm blew through the house every morning and—kiss, kiss, love you!—left through the front door. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“February your grandmother! I got it all down in black and white. An’ I tell you, no number—” “Oh, pack it in!” said the third man. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

My grandmother is the kind of person who always thinks the best of everyone. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother sat at the kitchen table wearing an old striped cotton bathrobe. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grandmother is sure the baby is smiling at her. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

And when we said good-bye to one grandmother, we said good-bye to all of them. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

As they neared the park, Candice found herself stewing over Mrs. Farmers words about her grandmother. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The grandmother escaped with the loose cash and did not return to help. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

These tears were the last things I’d ever be able to give my grandmother, and I wanted her to have all I had. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother told her not to worry about it, which just made Luna worry more. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She barely remembers how to write her own name, something her grandmother had once taught her. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They admired the new baby, asleep in the crook of her bespectacled grandmother’s arms. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The next time Cora’s grandmother was sold was after a month in the pest house on Sullivan’s Island, once the physicians certified her and the rest of the Nanny's cargo clear of illness. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Abbott fell silent, and I felt as if I was letting her down, and also letting down Jennifer's grandmother, who was now standing in the kitchen doorway drying a cup. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Emily saw her grandmother who lived in Vermont maybe once a year, and the rest of her grandparents had passed away. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s been lovely there this month,” I said, drawing nearer to Maxim's grandmother. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Every time she visited, he felt a pang for his own grandmother. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother says it’s eighty degrees there, and Fina pulls her sweater tighter around her, even though the oven is keeping the whole house toasty. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The letter is dated three weeks ago, and from it they learn that Ashima’s grandmother has had a stroke, that her right side is permanently paralyzed, her mind dim. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother is wearing a purple velour housecoat that clashes with the orange-and-green wallpaper in the kitchen. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

But my grandmother explained that no, this was a new kind of modeling clay that was easy to work with. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“For a short time. I'm not sure how long exactly,” their grandmother said. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your grandmother and I have waited a long time to find somebody like you among our posterity,” Grandpa said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Marian remembered her grandmother Isabella as an imposing woman, tall and imperious, who ruled her family with an iron hand. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

There is a fuzzy, faded picture of my great-great-great grandmother in the Clarion County Museum. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

At this moment a window at the front of the cottage was flung open and a thin voice—her grandmother’s—piped, “Winifred! Don’t sit on that dirty grass. You’ll stain your boots and stockings.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lacking any clairvoyance into my grandmother’s state of mind that day, I’ll just tell you what happened next. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I never understood why my grandmother had a driveway. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Someone placed a chair for me beside my grandmother’s armchair, and I sat down. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your grandmother sent me an email. She said you hadn’t been to middle school before. But don’t worry; it’s a new year for everyone. Except me. This is my 15th year in 7th grade.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sergio’s grandmother made dinner, and the three of them stuffed themselves, and they watched Jeopardy! on television afterward. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The twins were in Virginia, sequestered at their grandmother’s, incommunicado. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Only another sister, Rosa Amalia, holds hunger at bay: each Saturday, she brings Enrique’s grandmother milk, cheese, butter, rice, sugar, beans, and vegetables. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Soon after my seventh birthday, my parents took me as usual to spend Christmas with my grandmother in Norway. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Dicey didn’t know how her grandmother stopped the questions, but she did, by the glitter in her eye and the lift to her chin. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four months after Cabot found work as a satellite TV salesman, Alma Ember decided to move back in with her grandmother. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

"Neither do I,” his grandmother said, "but there are them that do.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story that pours out of him is too stunning to be a joke—that his grandmother was handed over as a baby to nuns to escape the Nazis. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to talk to anyone else about her grandmother’s hunt for buried treasure. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And even though my grandmother tells us not to play with them, she doesn't call us into the house anymore when she sees them walking down the road. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

My parents disappear a lot when the grandmothers are together. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wondered if it had altered much since Maxim’s grandmother had driven down it in her carriage. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

My grandmother, with me in her hand, turned and marched out of the room. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

This is what Lily had told me: One day, Minerva's mother brought little Minerva to the house to show her to our grandmother. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Even Babulya created tenuous friendships with the collection of grandmothers whose sole purpose seemed to be creating warm garments for any child who got too close to them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

After that, my grandmother says she's done with the South says it makes her too sad. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

These were questions with one terrible answer, which her grandmother refused to give. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Bournemouth, my grandmother told me, was full of old people like herself. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

"By the way," my grandmother said, "would you like to know who did this to him?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

When I was four, my grandmother seemed like a giant. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

For our next meeting, a minivan taxi hauls my grandmother and five big trunks to Carver School. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her association with other children was always limited to her grandmother’s visits to the Free Cities, and only the visits on which Luna was permitted to come. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“All this time, I thought the letters were MS. For Mississippi, where my grandmother was born.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I took the cup that I had prepared for her back to the kitchen, brushing past my grandmother, who was grinning at me in the doorway. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for my grandmother dying. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

His grandmother might be alone inside the house, trapped. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

My grandmother’s eyes were brown, but that didn’t make her feel any better. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The boxlike room, stripped of all embellishment or parlor fussiness, a room that wished to be timeless or ahistorical, and there, in the middle of it, my deeply historical, timeworn grandmother. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Like almost all women in our community, my grandmother was a maid in a white woman’s kitchen or at the Marion Hotel. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He’d loaded some of his grandmother’s, porcelain in a wagon and toted it into the yard, where he set up targets on old fenceposts at the edge of the property. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to integrate this school. Your grandmother and I will love you, no matter what you decide.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a gift for her grandmother: a pretty, empty glass perfume bottle that her mother’s only sister, Jean, had given her. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And what was it still doing in her grandmother’s attic? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

James looked in the nylon bag that held his grandmother’s vegetables. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

"Yep. My parents still live there. Mom makes dinner every Sunday night. Your grandmother's joined us a time or two. Do you like to cook?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"How dare you say that when your rotten hotel is full of rats anyway!" my grandmother cried. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I had my own room in the hotel and my grandmother never bothered with silly things like that. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Even almost twenty years later, his father never sets foot in his grandmother’s house, nor does she ever come out to Concord. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We take the coastal highway to my grandmother’s house. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother hugged her neck, her strong perfume nearly choking Alma, and swayed back and forth until finally letting go, leaning back to look at Alma’s face, and then going in for another hug. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

We did have a meager emergency reserve, a secret stash of ten gold coins my grandmother had given my mother before we left Narewka. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

"An absolutely clean child gives off the most ghastly stench to a witch," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“She tried to kill me, Beans! My own grandmother tried to kill me!” he said. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought about her grandmother, who had had a long and mostly cheerful life. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The answer comes in the form of two words I never thought I'd hear my grandmother use: "slumber party." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She greeted both grandmother and grandchild with a serene exhaustion. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

So profoundly responsive a chord had the tale struck in me that the threats of my mother and grandmother had no effect whatsoever. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Squinting, she could tell it was Rachel Denning’s house—Drew’s grandmother. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My grandmother sets them up in the nursery, then hangs a blanket between them in case her child is a boy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She knew about her grandfather, the monster that caught her grandmother. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I set one bottle of beer in front of my grandmother and watch as she twists off the cap before taking a swig. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“The editor of the newspaper too. None of them were brave enough to act on it. No one except for Candice’s grandmother.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My grandmother’s parents were deeply embittered by how the promise of freedom and equality following slavery ended when white Southern Democrats reclaimed political power through violence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was a lesson she’d forgotten in her early days in America, but with time she had rediscovered it as something worthy passed down from her grandmother in Kure. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My old eyes are not what they used to be,” my grandmother said, in the shy humble voice she reserved for prayers and for total strangers. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

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

She worries that her children are eating too much of the food her sister brings over for Enrique’s grandmother. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Arcadio examined that strange messenger who could have been a fugitive grandmother with a look of pity. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But Maxim’s grandmother, sitting there in her shawl with her poor blind eyes, what did she feel, what was she thinking? Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She ignored her grandmother, who was sitting at the head of the table in a silence of furious anger. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I might act bad around her and get mad at her, but deep down I love my grandmother. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I let my eyes adjust to the shadows before searching for my grandmother. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I want to know what you mean, playing out of school and telling your grandmother lies and forging her name on your report and worrying her sick. What do you mean by it?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the death of my grandmother, I couldn’t look anywhere except down. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The guardian whom McAuliffe suspected of killing his grandmother was a prominent attorney working for the tribe who never interfered with the criminal networks operating under his nose. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

His grandmother was all right now, but her health wouldn’t hold up forever. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My grandmother’s last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My grandmother is a witch,” Luna said out loud. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Are your mother and grandmother not important? Where are they? Why have they not come out to greet us?” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was how her conversations with Clara went, and why, for Alba, the most important person in the house and the strongest presence in her life was her grandmother. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember asking my grandmother what the old man meant. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

At night, they sit on some big rocks outside his grandmother’s home, where they have a bit of privacy, and talk. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The mate had inherited the ability to communicate with the trees from his grandmother’s grove in Everica. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A year later, my grandmother would be so depressed by the harsh treatment she received from her in-laws that she tried to commit suicide by overdosing on opium. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes: brass candlesticks; the blue-and-gold blanket; my grandmother's china with the tiny red flowers. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The baby laughed, listening to her grandmother s laments. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next time she looked, her grandmother was walking along, still carrying two bags, and James was nowhere in sight. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By the way, Pm counting on you to give your grandmother extra special help today. She’s a bit weary.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The laws that make grandmothers grandmothers, uncles uncles, mothers mothers, cousins cousins, jam jam, and jelly jelly. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's barely morning and we're already awake, my grandmother in the kitchen ironing our Sunday clothes. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

But surely their grandmother wouldn’t ask them to leave on a day like this. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother picked up her cigar and took another puff, inhaling the foul smoke deeply into her lungs. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

How could she introduce them when she never called her grandmother anything but Umm-ah? Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first my grandmother couldn’t believe me, but as I went on about the workbooks and circles, she dissolved into another round of laughter. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, he asks his grandmother, “How did my mom get to the United States?” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

You might be dead, but you’re still my grandmother and you still love me. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“And yes they are too raggedy to be going to the hospital to see your grandmother.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Pastor Curtis came to the house with an even bigger Bible than Big Ma’s black Bible and married our grandmother to her next-door neighbor in the living room. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

One week later, Alma asked her grandmother if Nico could move into the guest bedroom for a few weeks until he found a new apartment. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I was glad she had rung up and suggested the plan of going over to see the grandmother. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But at the time I thought the blame for my unhappiness must be fixed—on Caroline, on my grandmother, on my mother, even on myself. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother shook hands with Claire, then Will, and asked them to sit down on the porch because the kitchen was so hot. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Ms. Carr leaned forward and put her finger in my face and talked to me just like my grandmother used to talk to me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I’m told I have my mother’s café con leche skin color, my father’s curly black hair, my grandmother’s slightly turned-up nose, the dimples from some great-aunt who spent her whole life smiling at everyone. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Charming as that may be,” Muriel said, “I would require the energy of a knot unraveling to work any spell capable of restoring your grandmother to her former state.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He saw Mars sitting at his grandmother’s bedside, looking at Frank with those nuclear explosion eyes: You’re Juno’s secret weapon. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Luna knelt down and proceeded to make herself more presentable before facing her grandmother and Glerk—both of whom would likely want answers about her absence. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

As the girls helped Pita sit down on a huge flat rock a few feet away from the shore, I held my grandmother’s hand in mine. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Before she left, she went into the house to check on her grandmother. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

April shut the door of her room behind her grandmother and then she turned around very slowly and dramatically to face the rest of the Egypt gang. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neville had never been on a broomstick in his life, because his grandmother had never let him near one. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

His grandmother had stayed put during countless storms in her home on Arwad Island, and he planned to do the same. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Where my grandmothers cried because I wasn't a boy? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Their grandmother had a cantaloupe cut up into thick slices. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was little, my grandmother said it to me so many times that I thought it was my Korean name. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The girl looked at her grandmother with a curious expression. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Though Rose still had to ask her grandmother. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I heard long, angrily whispered conversations between my mother and grandmother to the effect that “that woman ought to be killed for breaking up a home.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she led me into the front room, with its oversized mahogany chairs and a desk that my grandmother had bought especially for the journalists to use when they were working there. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

But she never had to do dishes, because her grandmother did them—probably happily. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It poured from her hands into her grandmother’s mouth and shivered through her grandmother’s body. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The visit had been her grandmother’s suggestion in the first place, but April agreed that it was a good idea. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Luna was little, her grandmother taught her about magnets and compasses. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“You may think you can run over me like you do your grandmother and everybody else,” I says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your grandmother in China is sending you candy again,” said my mother. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey didn’t wait to see if her grandmother started off. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bailey nods, and his grandmother sits back in her chair and complains about the neighbors for some time, not mentioning his father or his dreams again. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She tortured herself with the idea that they might capture him alive, and invoked the spirit of her grandmother to ask her to prevent that from happening. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had to be in sixth grade, but she had the body of a third grader and the face of a drunken grandmother. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Not yet, not if it had anything to do with her grandmother getting fired. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then he sighs as he drives away from his grandmother’s house. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In the car, as we started our long journey to Lewiston, Idaho, my grandmother Hiddle said, “Salamanca, why don’t you entertain us?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

His grandmother wanted to go with him, and they both stood for nearly an hour before they could even get in. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

"Sally's asleep. This is Sally's grandmother. Why are you calling at this hour, Holden? Do you know what time it is?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He washed his face and ate the eggs and beans his grandmother prepared. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She gathered up the eggshell-thin fragments with care and placed them in a small blue box which had once held a bracelet that her grandmother had given her when she was a little girl. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Each time Francie began the prayer, Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, her grandmother’s face came before her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then they tracked down his maternal grandmother. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

This grandmother had died soon after the birth, but not before naming Jam’s mother Bitter. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She was rather pleased, but when she looked at Baachan, her grandmother’s lips were pressed together. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

No matter what else happened between my tribe and me, I would always love them for giving me peace on the day of my grandmother’s funeral. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

"I'm afraid you may be right," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

She clung even tighter to the Iron Rod and the baby, who only stared up at her grandmother with eyes as old as a mountain. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“But you can just set up a new email account, you know. They’re free. I did one for my grandmother.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The lady turned to me and said, “Well, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Leaving your poor grandmother while you hang around that Holly Paine learning goodness knows what.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The next day, a man in a black suit arrived at the house carrying a brief-case, and he held a long conversation with my grandmother in the living-room. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Their grandmother stood with one hand holding the lid down, staring at the children. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your grandmother was of an archaic generation, not so open-minded as you are, Sierra Santiago. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She was wearing two or three necklaces, old fake pearls, like Park's grandmother wore to church, and she twisted them while she talked. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Thank you for sending me the needles,” I heard Emilie say to my grandmother. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

One night, when gunfire exploded near their house, Sitti, my grandmother, cried out to my father and his brothers, “Help! What should we do?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now living with her grandmother in America, she had been badly burned in the attack, the scars stretching across one side of her body. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother, who had raised her, sat watching quietly, with folded hands. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

There was a thick forest on one side of the village where my grandmother lived and coffee farms on the other. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There are three brothers who live down the road we know this only because our grandmother tells us. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Conor had to sleep on the settee every time his grandmother came to stay. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

"I was talking to my little grandson," I heard my grandmother saying. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, whose fault is it then?” their grandmother would answer sharply. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora’s grandmother saw a little boy among the gawkers eating rock candy and wondered what he was putting in his mouth. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She saw Louisiana’s grandmother standing at the food table with a gigantic bunch of green grapes in her hand. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I’ve never been to Ireland, but returning before she died was very important to my grandmother. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Give her six months' severance and put her on the next flight back home. I'll send over someone less...distracting. Svetlana is older, a grandmother type, and utterly brilliant. Her goulash is to die for." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

All of us laughed when they lowered my grandmother into the ground. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was her grandmother talking that Sunday evening when Caesar approached Cora about the underground railroad, and she said no. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

God gives you what you need, my grandmother says. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Doc said, “You two need to talk with your grandmother.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Not sweets. My grandmother usually makes sausage. Bratwurst is not the worst!” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I’m guessing my grandmother sits a lot, though I didn’t see a television in the living room. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Southside had separated from my grandmother decades earlier, when my mother was in her teens. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

That I miss my grandmother and wish I’d never left Cuba? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, dear, not old Marksman?” said her grandmother. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Combined with the food the grandmother had given them, they had enough for a full meal. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I built her myself. Started shortly after your grandmother passed on. It was this boat that carried me through those terrible times. That, and raising your daddy and his brother and sister.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I left for New York happy in the knowledge that my grandmother had not suffered and died for nothing. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad says that as soon as I saw my grandmother, I toddled over, lifted my arms, and in the sweetest voice possible, said, "Dee-doo," which sounds exactly like the Bangla word for "grandmother." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This was one of the reasons he and my grandmother wouldn’t even let me walk across the street alone from their house to get my hair done. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now, as he reached its apex, his grandmother wouldn’t be around to witness it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Maybeth went into the house to help her grandmother clear up. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luna left a note for her grandmother saying that she wanted to go out and collect berries and sketch the sunrise. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

For my mom, my aunt, my grandmother, and all the other women on our street, life centered on faith. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The mom, Mrs. Parrish, looked old enough to be a grandmother. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

She worked and worked and worked but, living under my grandmother’s roof, she wasn’t allowed to keep her own wages. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Or at least she was fairly certain it was her grandmother. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

One night she asked her grandmother to tell it once again. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was true—her grandmother has always been protective of Candice, but not overprotective like her dad. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was a plan that had been hastily concocted after Louisiana’s grandmother left the scene. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

We sat in the pickup and tried to enjoy our last moments with our beloved grandmother. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“He wanted help with his costume, and my grandmother can sew.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She knew the exact date because it was her fourteenth birthday, and her mother had recorded it in the black album her grandmother had started when she was born. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old enough to be her grandmother, Nin was a squat woman with matted hair and a face as tough as rawhide. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s not sophisticated or romantic. Your trouble is that you think America is just feeding your grandmother’s chickens. There’s a lot more to America than that.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the grandmother screams a loud, shrill cry. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother said she’d fixed apple dumplings, and together the three of us walked to the house. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And take your hands off my grandmother. Joey might not be here to protect her, but no one’s going to hurt Grandma.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hold my blanket to my face and breathe in the lavender smell of my grandmother. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I flew up the stairs and burst into my grandmother's room and threw myself into her arms. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

But maybe no one can read her handwriting, like with my grandmother. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was then that Alba entered the nightmare that her grandmother had apparently not seen on her astrological chart when she was born, and that Luisa Mora had seen in a fleeting premonition. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we heard any gunfire or, as my grandmother called it, “foolishness,” outside, we were to immediately return home, no matter when it was. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Do you think, if you asked her, your grandmother would tell me some? I collect old folktales and stuff like that.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, my grandmother got really sick during this time and refused to go to the hospital. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She smiles and says, “My grandmother. I’m thinking about how she’d say that sometimes, it’s just good to talk it out, you know?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“And that will be our secret that we won’t even share with her. She’ll be the only woman in the world to become a grandmother with never becoming a mother first.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please,” the grandmother pleads, her bony fingers dragging the snot from her nose onto her cheeks, “please give me some medicine. It hurts very much.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dayee Mohammad's wife was the first to greet me, and I asked her how my grandmother was doing. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

And then Louisiana’s grandmother said, “I am uncertain exactly what you are implying, but I can assure you that I do not care for the implication, whatever it is.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Their grandmother led the way back to the fields and farm. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman, who said she was the mother of six children and the grandmother to twenty-one, stood up. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I wonder if she understands that “some camp” probably means her grandmother’s sister is dead. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Your grandmother was not teaching me how to behave in class. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The grandmother explained quietly without her having to ask that it was the room of Chadwell, Courtney’s older brother, a pilot who had one day crashed into the steaming jungles of Vietnam. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Beatrice’s grandmother was sitting there, propped up with pillows and surrounded by shawls. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Oh, you know, clearing Luce’s stuff out. God, she was a pack rat. You can barely open her drawers. You know, I found your grandmother’s wedding veil. I’ve been looking for that thing for ages.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She held the note from her grandmother in her hands for only a moment before she tore it to shreds. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

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

Her grandmother leaned into the dough with her shoulders, but handled it gently at the same time. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Technically, I'm a hundred percent—my grandmother, my mother, me. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

My grandmother supervised his menu religiously, feeling guilty perhaps about earlier things she had run through his system. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Before I can think of a comeback, his grandmother’s heels come clicking down the long hallway. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Seth Andrew Sorenson, you mind your grandmother! I want you to come down from there.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

His tenant’s grandmother or aunt or something had moved in there and the rent was long overdue. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel was reassuring Frank that he’d done everything he could for his grandmother. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It looked like one of her grandmother’s house dresses, shapeless, with faded roses. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hated how Sohrab had a larger share of my grandmother’s life than I did. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe that is why Violet is a hairdresser—all those years of listening to her rescuing grandmother, True Belle, tell Baltimore stories. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded disrespectful to me—calling a woman old enough to be my grandmother by her first name, but I did as I was told. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s high time your grandmother learned to be proud of the grandson she’s got, rather than the one she thinks she ought to have — particularly after what happened at the Ministry.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Without your grandmother here to rein in the merriment, things got a little too festive. Didn’t help that they invited the satyrs.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Your grandmother told me,” he said in awed tones. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was too lazy to get up, so I sat on the ground and thought about my two brothers, my father, mother, and grandmother. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My mother, Edith Hollander Frank, went with him to Holland in September, while Margot and I were sent to Aachen to stay with our grandmother. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

After one particularly violent incident, my seven-year-old dad took the bus to fetch his father at work so that he could hurry home and tend to my grandmother's bloody wounds. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The city had decided to issue a formal apology to her grandmother, and were holding a ceremony to rename City Hall in her honor. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We’d gone to see my grandmother in California, the last year before she died. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“We have to get going. Our grandmother is waiting for us.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

My mom was the youngest of the lot, but when my grandmother was pregnant with her, she debated whether she should terminate the pregnancy. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

When my grandmother passed away, that application became null and void. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But instead he clamps his mouth shut, steels himself, prays Wangemann won't hit him, not here, not in front of his grandmother. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Danielle used some natural ingredients her grandmother had taught her about. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

When she reached her grandmother’s house, the old woman did not send her away, but took her in and washed her, and her makgabe, making everything smell sweetly. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I ran right into my grandmother’s arms as if I’d been doing this every day. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Welcome home! Oh, welcome home!” my grandmother cried. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one, with weasel eyes, if he was cold he would burn his own grandmother to make a fire, I believe. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I usually slept naked at home, where there was a door I could lock, but I had no intention of doing that in my grandmother’s house. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

"And get caught all over again," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

She loved the relationship he had with his grandmother, how he delighted in her and always watched out for her. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

Their grandmother put the tops on the jars and set them into the canning pot. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother and father weren’t home, so I turned to my grandmother for advice. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And now you get to meet my grandmother!” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Louisiana’s grandmother was stealing food from Mrs. Borkowski’s memorial food table! Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Exhilarated by the sight of our paternal grandmother’s home, we walked hurriedly down the hill toward the pink stucco building within the corral-like fence, being careful not to jostle Pita too much in the stretcher. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

And so, horrified, my grandmother had resumed an activity at which she had tried her hand once before, with decidedly mixed results. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I do not come out of my hiding place, afraid that if they see me they’ll blame me for not helping the grandmother. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luna unhooked her arm from her grandmother and stepped forward. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

"I am trying to tell you as gently as I possibly can that Bruno really is in my handbag," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

"Those machines can make Chinese money if you want them to," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

That summer, things blossomed further when Gary came for a weeklong visit while the kids were with their grandmother. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Boy, you did your grandmother a favor,” the fireman said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

For the first time in her life my grandmother had nothing to worry about. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I don't know what I'd do without you all up under me, my grandmother says and there's a sadness in her voice. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

While my grandmother was still asleep, Mina fell in the pool and drowned. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It occurred to Lina that this might be what her grandmother had been talking about for so long. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Unsavory sorts murmured indelicacies at cutlet stands; grandmothers consulted almanacs to determine a propitious hour for the betrothal. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It isn't fair, I say to my grandmother when so many days have passed. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Let him curse and I remember him falling down the cellar steps, and howling, and I remember, with pain, his tears, which my hand or your grandmother’s so easily wiped away. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“The boy went on to an old woman’s hut. ‘Respected grandmother, may I stay with you?’ he asked. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt like throwing her plate at her grandmother. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t talk about that,” Luna said, her mouth still buried in her grandmother’s licheny hair. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She said she didn’t even like knitting that much, but it reminded her of her grandmother. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She hoped there was a cozy hearth at Nat’s grandmother’s house, and her own heart warmed at the thought of the two old ladies sharing it together. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Long time past, my heroes,” Gawaine was saying, “before ourselves were born or thought of, there was a beautiful grandmother at us, called Igraine.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward they would hop into Abuelo’s taxi and drive all the way to Abuela’s house, where her mother, grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins all lived. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

After years of living apart up on the mountain, the people of Bithynios, my grandmother’s village, had emerged into the safety of the Meg ale Idea—the Big Idea, the dream of Greater Greece. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It gave her otherwise plain face a broken excitement and blue-blade threat like the keloid scar of the razored man who sometimes played checkers with her grandmother. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It's why I came now, because Elsbeth's family always had a big Sunday dinner at her grandmother's house, and I bet this tradition has continued even through the war. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

"No wonder my breakfast toast was all nibbled round the edges this morning," my grandmother went on relentlessly. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I didn’t hear my grandmother make a sound, but the box is definitely out of reach now. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Because, to be honest, I usually forgot that part of me existed until my grandmother visited or someone brought it up. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And then Louisiana’s grandmother put a handful of crackers in the pocket of her fur coat. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

"Yours is asleep," the grandmother says in a slightly critical voice. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Who cared if your product got twelve-year-olds and grandmothers and preachers so addicted that they stopped thinking about anything except their next hit? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Not all grandmothers are that cold,” I say. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

"Yes," my grandmother said, "it gives the English witches great pleasure to stand back and watch the grown-ups doing away with their own children." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Finally, she evanesced the ghosts, starting with Azareen’s grandmother, infusing the dream with their sighs of release. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t lost on her that she had destroyed a tennis court, just like her grandmother. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“In our house, there wasn’t a chair with four legs left whole for my ill grandmother to sit on,” she said. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like many Southern Black children, he lived with his grandmother, who was as strict as Momma and as kind as she knew how to be. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

So maybe her grandmother had made a mistake. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She sat down on one of her grandmother’s uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

In 1981, a twelve-year-old boy was playing in his grandmother’s backyard when a plume of smoke appeared in front of him. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you read the letter. We can’t go back now. Even my grandmother is trying to push me into this. But there are things that have happened...things I could never talk about to anyone.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My grandmother died this summer. She was my mom’s mother, and that’s how come we forgot. I know it’s not an excuse.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Anything to do with his grandmother got him going. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

"Bruno is a mouse," my grandmother said, calm as ever. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The only women in my life were my mom and my grandmother and my aunt and my cousin. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Soon after that bittersweet moment with our newfound grandmother, we got back on Highway 57 North and drove straight through Sabinas and Nueva Rosita. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

And her grandmother’s middle-aged nephew who lived in a Nonhem town called Medallion was the one chance she had to make sure it would be. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother came running in from the kitchen. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Rocky rented me a room on 122nd near Seventh so I wouldn’t have to make that long trip to my grandmother’s house in the Bronx. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what about this farm they were going to, their grandmother’s farm. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had a small peach tree in a tiny patch on one side of the house and on the other side my grandmother had a driveway. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“How long will it take?” their grandmother asked. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cousin and I agree that one of the smaller but stranger effects of 9/11 is how it changed our grandmother. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Could it be that my grandmother’s sense of guilt, that sodden, malarial dread that swamped her insides almost seasonally—could this incurable virus have opened her up to Fard’s appeal? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My grandmother put on her frostiest look, but didn't answer him. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Go home and tell your grandmother you ate me whole dinner and I’m falling down with the hunger here in this lime kiln. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She didn’t even tell our parents or grandmother or me before she left. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I never saw such heat in all my life,” said Winnie’s grandmother, dabbing uselessly at her neck with a handkerchief. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She laid her head in her grandmother’s lap. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

When we go downtown, we go to the fabric store, where the white woman knows my grandmother from back in Anderson, asks, How's Gunnar doing and your girls in New York? Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Zaydeh kept a picture of himself and my grandmother on his bureau. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“On the side, Mom’s a private investigator. That’s what she calls it. I call it a professional snoop. My grandmother called it being a busybody. Mom spies on men who are—” She glanced at Finn. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

My grandmother was getting pretty worked up herself and now she heaved herself out of her chair and began pacing up and down the room, thumping the carpet with her stick. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

She met her grandmother at the end of the lawn, She didn’t even ask, she just took a bag. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jermaine’s were so good because he learned how from our grandmother. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

My grandmother walked out of it and crossed the lobby of the hotel and entered the Dining-Room. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother’s fury burned behind her immobile face. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t make a habit of sleeping naked in your grandmother’s house, though.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Both Louisiana and her grandmother had lots of bunny barrettes in their hair. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

We lived in town, but I would spend weeks at a tinie with my grandmother in Soweto, often during the holidays. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to the hospital to see your grandmother,” Moms said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Could her grandmother know what she was thinking? Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shouted at my grandmother, a sweet, soft-spoken woman and devout Christian named LaVaughn. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Although many women in Afghanistan traditionally chose to wear the burka, a head-to-toe covering—including his grandmother and his aunts—the Taliban now made it mandatory. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Behind you, your mother and your grandmother scrape an animal hide clean, then hang it to dry in the sun. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Golden. My grandmother said it was an old African symbol for a spiderweb. Something about being creative.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

My mother took me and Andrew, and we went out to stay with my grandmother in Soweto for a while. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They made their way back to Matthew, stopping a couple of times for James to pick up some produce and other items from the farmers’ market for his mom and grandmother. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It is the reason why our children go hungry and our grandmothers wither and our crops are so often doomed to fail. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

But my family had to bury my grandmother. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother, who was white as any “white” person, had never looked “white” to me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what did his grandmother know, was I the only one worried about him? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

My dad’s dad, the poet farmer, the love of my other grandmother’s life. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

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

Why should he and everyone else respect this little girl’s claim just because her grandmother had kicked the dirt over once? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When I came to the bottom of the hill, I called out that I was home and my grandmother yoo-hooed from the vegetable garden. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five weeks earlier my grandmother had given me her old riding lawn mower and I’d started mowing lawns. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

And then, after she swallowed, she elaborated: “English, because I always went to American schools. Spanish. Italian. And a little bit of Mandarin from my grandmother.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

My grandmother always told me that she loved my prayers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My grandmother maintained a lifelong sense of gratitude. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But after a few days, my grandmother began to invent gadgets for me in order to make life a bit easier. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Their parents were at the clinic, as usual, and their grandmother had gone to visit a friend. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her mother wanted to call her Clara, but her grandmother did not believe in repeating names, because it created confusion in her notebooks that bore witness to life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally I called my grandmother, and she told me that he was at Doctors Hospital in Hyde Park. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike her parents, and her other relatives, her grandmother had not admonished Ashima not to eat beef or wear skirts or cut off her hair or forget her family the moment she landed in Boston. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

About her grandmother Ajarry who’d been kidnapped from her family in Africa and tilled a small corner of land, the only thing to call her own. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Lay your grandmother at my threshold,” she instructed.“I want to blow on the knot,” Seth said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“I lost my grandmother’s antique bracelet in the trash! The clasp broke, and the whole thing slipped off!” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“Of course it is, Grandmama,” Luna said, not looking her grandmother in the eye. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She could see the grandmother-shaped impression on her own soul, but when she tried to get a sense of where her grandmother was now, it was blurred somehow. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

So far I had stuck to my plan not to go number three in my grandmother’s house, but it was making my mornings increasingly awkward. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I mumble, believing my grandmother is with me now. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

And why had he chosen my grandmother’s funeral for his confession? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

That was Grandpa Bobby’s fishing boat, which he’d named after his wife, my grandmother. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother had said them while Luna was in the room. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I read everyone the poem about my grandmother. I’m dying to see what your favorite food is.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

And now Frank had no one except his grandmother. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You need a snazzy name for the contest,” Elizabeth’s grandmother says. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“But you have your grandmother’s eyes,” Bridge said. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Some. Along with mothers and grandmothers, widows and maids ... would you condemn them all to die, my lord?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Wearing long dresses and wrapped in shawls, they could have been mistaken for a group of grandmothers on a garden tour. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then my grandmother would add “sugar” to her shopping list and she’d say she didn’t know how she’d ever got along without me. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to write, the story of Pila, the story of my grandmother. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

An Yi’s grandmother took care of them all. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother treated him to what were referred to as “curtain lectures.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess not,” Stella said, thinking back to what Mama had said about her grandmother not sleeping for twenty years. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Some she had invented to entertain her children; others were old folk tales told to her by her own mother and her grandmother. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first articles were all about how her grandmother had been fired after digging up a tennis court at Vickers Park. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The earsplitting cry my grandmother let out when she learned of the disaster cannot be done justice in print. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“What is it?” asked his grandmother, stirring the contents of a big iron pot on the stove. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

When my grandmother got sick, my parents came and they stayed. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

By this time, they were back to where their grandmother waited. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

People came and went, grandmothers and doll collectors and little girls with their mothers. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

And so I kissed my grandmother’s cracked face. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d still be sleeping if my grandmother hadn’t come banging at the door. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When I was a child, my grandmother told me that the sly speaks to those who look and listen to it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I think we need something closer to home. My grandmother probably won’t let me leave the country. Maybe we could collect aluminum cans and recycle them.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Every Sunday morning, my once-Hindu grandmother swishes out of the apartment in a floral muumuu that skims across the tops of her tennis shoes. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“No. That was your great-grandmother. This is your grandmother. My... mother.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me about yourself, Biddy. Ms. Delamino said that you lived with your grandmother.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Your grandmother and I didn’t always see eye-to-eye, but I still loved her, flaws, claws, and all. And she loved you more than anyone else in the world.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother’s “failure” led to Candice spending so much time with her. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Call, who had always belonged to me because nobody else besides his mother and grandmother would have him, and the Captain, who finally through all our troubles and misunderstandings had become mine as well. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

When the children came downstairs, their grandmother was waiting in the kitchen. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took little time for Alma to settle in, and she eventually got used to her grandmother’s constant questions and suggestions about what they should do or where they should go. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

His grandmother had been able to talk to the trees. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And everybody knew that losing my grandmother was horrible. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Ma, please,” our grandmother pleaded, but Ma Charles was determined to tell her family history, so Big Ma’s pleas turned to anger. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“The story of the Flying Elefantes is a story worth telling again and again,” said the grandmother. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Struggle for your grandmother and grandfather, for your name. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He had long, thin fingers, like my grandmother. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Freaking. Is that Hindi or Tamil or what? Did your grandmother teach you that? Was it part of your family’s Ohmigod-totally-awesome-popadam recipe handed down through the generations?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Running home, he asked his grandmother for some corn, and she gave him four ears wrapped in a white cloth. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Hanako watched her grandmother stir the soup, then remove the pot from the stove, her thin arms sticking out from beneath her rolled-up sleeves. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her maternal grandmother worked there as well, “right up until the day she died.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her coffee-colored hands looked old, but well-manicured and elegant, so I imagined she was a grandmother who had once been a beautiful lady. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother was a part of this hardscrabble crowd: she had rented a three-room flat on Hayat Khan Lane, just a short walk from the station. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Luna knew that everything alive must die someday—she had seen it with her own eyes when she assisted her grandmother. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They heard the Howler go off in the entrance hall — Neville’s grandmother’s voice, magically magnified to a hundred times its usual volume, shrieking about how he had brought shame on the whole family. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I bathed the baby,” she announces to her grandmother, a wiry, muscular woman with salt-and-pepper hair. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I'm batting a thousand when it comes to grandmother disappointment. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t at all remember the story about her grandmother’s sister shooting her husband. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The following spring, on April 27, 1928, Zoe Stephanides was born, a large, healthy girl with the squarish head of her grandmother, a powerful cry, and nothing at all the matter with her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“What are they going to do to my grandmother?” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The marriage was arranged, but my grandmother didn't put up a fight. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The closer we got to Little Rock, the more I saw my mother and grandmother losing their power as adults, acting more like children or humble servants. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Their grandmother picked crab meat and chewed and listened. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What does your mother say? I suppose it must be your mother. Your grandmother would never waste money on a second letter.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house even seemed to smell like her grandmother—like fresh lavender. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mama tries to push the door open, but the chain’s still on and my mysterious grandmother doesn’t seem ready to move out of the way. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

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

Richard’s mother, Jasmine, was already four and a half months pregnant when her grandmother took her to the doctor to get checked. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Sergio didn’t realize how homesick he was, he had been, the whole time, until just then, when he started thinking about his grandmother. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

My grandmother grasped the arm of her chair to steady herself, but her eyes never left me. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I talked to my mother and grandmother, and they began to tell me about Jim Crow. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Emilie sat on the porch and watched me go to my grandmother’s house. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

In his divine knack for bringing things full circle, God called me to do for others what had not been done for my grandmother. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother—besieged yet again, and now with doubled ferocity—assumed the role of public defender for Jagu. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He told her he wanted to learn about his grandmother, Henrietta, and asked Deborah to send him whatever information we found on our trip. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday morning, their grandmother started another batch of bread, then told them to take baths and put on fresh shorts and shirts. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

All summer he had heard from his aunts and cousins and grandmother how he was too skinny. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And her grandmother’s medicine, so useful at other times, why hadn’t it worked for Neewo? The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Yet, in a way, I was seeing my grandmother more clearly than ever before. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She hated when her grandmother would unlock her almari, showing her which jewels would be hers when the day came. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wanders past graves belonging to philosophers and poets, authors whose books he knows from his grandmother’s library. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It just would have been a way to pass time until Bas’s mother thought he was old enough to inherit his grandmother's wedding ring. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

My grandmother brought the seeds with her from back home. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

My grandmother turns back around and finishes making the sandwich. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Dr. Ahmed has informed us of her family situation, and therefore, we would like to also invite her parents and grandmother to be part of this event. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I knew that my grandmother would have loved that send-off. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Your grandmother was many things. Strong. Dynamic. And stubborn too.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I knew better than to not call my grandmother but I was tired of being a killjoy, and my sisters and I were back in step with one another. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She asked for their address, and Dicey looked at her grandmother, who told Mrs. Jenkins. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at the note on the envelope, rubbing her grandmother’s bracelet. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My grandmother treated me like I was white. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“There is only one person other than my own grandmother who would know that story and could have told it the way you did. You must be the Storyteller!” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Her name is Rain, and she’s my grandmother,” I said stiffly. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She had heard her mother make comments like that throughout the years, even when her grandmother was still alive. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We gave him the same story about our grandmother, but he seemed uninterested. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Luna gathered more moonlight on her fingers and encouraged her grandmother to drink. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

"She'll just have to get used to him," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“You speak English very well,” she told her grandmother. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Never in a million years had he thought his grandmother would need rescuing, but now he started running combat scenarios in his mind-—the way he had back at camp during the war games. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The children yelled even louder as they were suddenly squashed by falling mothers, grandmothers, aunts and older sisters. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

We fight to see who will get to rub the swelling from my grandmother's ankles, the smile back onto her face, the stories back into the too-quiet room. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Their grandmother wasn’t going to take any trouble for them, but Dicey would show her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Uncle D, who was probably used to being between his mother and grandmother, was already in the truck. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Then she said, “You don’t like your grandmother very much, do you?” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took a needle from my grandmother’s bundle and began sewing. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Did my grandmother really live to be ninety-nine? The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Williams glances from our grandmother to my aunt. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My grandmother helped me with it,” she said. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

She tried to keep her mind on her grandmother’s face. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She found in her grandmother a sure refuge when she was haunted by nightmares or when her Uncle Nicolas’s training became unbearable. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your grandmother’s right, Danielle. That girl comes from a bad family,” Mom said. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“His grandmother has cancer. I didn’t know until he told me that evening.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

When her grandmother learned of Ashima’s pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family’s first sahib. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I just wanted to pay my respects. Your grandmother was a wonderful woman. You did her proud.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The dress has the smell of old dead grandmother and I worry she might rise from the grave and curse me before the whole family and all assembled. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“My grandmother needs me. I can feel it in my bones. And we are not leaving this wood without her.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

In September 1996, my grandmother and my grandfather celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mine is a good name my grandmother has told me for as long as I can remember, a good name as good as the land itself. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was so powerful that her blowing her breath into the doll was enough to make her move, and smile, and make me feel connected to my grandmother even though she was gone. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I got worked up at that, thinking I’d found a grandmother. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He takes her to visit his paternal grandmother across town. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“In fact, you are too, technically. The tradition is it goes by the female line. If your grandmother’s Jewish, and your mother’s Jewish, then so are you.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

My grandmother discovered her body and tried to revive her, but it was too late. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

At least that would make one of my grandmothers happy. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s waited this long. I’m sorry to hear about your grandmother.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He called my grandmother on the phone, grinning because he knew how surprised she’d be. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both of his grandmothers were devout Roman Catholic. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Whenever we went to Spokane, my grandmother would talk to anybody, even the homeless people, even the homeless guys who were talking to invisible people. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I do not particularly care whether or not you attend Harvard,” his grandmother says one afternoon, though Bailey has not mentioned it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise thought she remembered her grandmother, but was not sure. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A grandmother of a petty knight, an ugly woman with a crooked nose, seemed stately and beautiful in the torches’ strange light. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Only her grandmother was in the kitchen, sitting with a cup of tea at the table, while two canning pots rattled on the stove. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for a name, they have decided to let Ashima’s grandmother, who is past eighty now, who has named each of her other six great-grandchildren in the world, do the honors. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His honor redeemed by his grandmother’s cans, Estha Alone organized the rusty cans of nothing in front of the urinal. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poor guy had just lost his grandmother and seen his house go up in flames. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Their grandmother came around the side to inspect the work. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grandmother, 8, was hard too, but easier to understand than 7. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She struggled against him, until they got tired of beating her and gave her a short break, which she used to invoke the understanding spirits of her grandmother, so that they would help her die. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby Francie crowed with delight as her grandmother held up the cruet and the sun shone through it and made a small fat rainbow on the opposite wall. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t let go until the plane stopped and the grandmother slipped her hand away and muttered something about foolish people who could not build planes well. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We’ve talked a lot about what my grandmother’s family must have gone through. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Candice didn’t want to move—but not because of her grandmother. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother waited to see what Dicey would say. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her dark eyes “Goodbye,” Abilene shouted to her grandmother. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

"I wouldn't do anything rash," my grandmother said to him. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Soon after that, my grandmother and I took the train to Bournemouth and settled into the Hotel Magnificent. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is our own grandmother. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were supposed to go out to a film together, but he locked himself in our bathroom upstairs and refused to come out for nearly an hour, until my grandmother had ferreted him out. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Darius starts the car as his grandmother stands in front of her house with her arms crossed. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The grandmother had come all the way from England. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

But then I catch sight of my grandmother, who doesn't look peaceful at all. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I enjoyed having my uncle, my father, my grandmother, and my sisters all to myself. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She was so full of questions about the boat, she didn’t care how her grandmother felt about them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s done now. Your grandmother will come to pick you up at my office tomorrow. I’ll come about nine to get you.” iomorrow? The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was her grandmother’s handwriting—swirling loops in dark blue ink. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The grandmother clucks at her granddaughter, then confides to the young man, "She's going to look just like an angel, pink and blond." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

My grandmother wrote letters pleading for them to come home, and they ignored her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Since we’re going to be living here for a while, there’s a few things you need to know about your grandmother.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Plus, I hoped Danielle would become friends with Anna despite her grandmother’s warnings. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Actually, I think Mr. Brademas would have said no if it wasn’t for the story about Link’s grandmother. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I struggled to pry the lid from the can of tea leaves, aware that my grandmother had come in and was standing close behind me. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother always had wonderful stories to tell me about her childhood and what it was like raising twelve children alone. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Suddenly very loud and clear there came the sound of my grandmother's voice through the open balcony door. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Someone’s grandmother who blew her monthly Social Security check on crack. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Come here and let your grandmother look at you.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the image of my grandmother lying helplessly upon her bed and there were yellow flames in her black hair. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only Abilene’s grandmother spoke to him as Abilene did, as one equal to another. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Cry until my grandmother comes out shoos Coraandhersisters home holds me tight tells me they are lying. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s not my grandmother’s. I bought it online.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They saw the lion—its body the size of a cow—drag his grandmother into the thorny trees, then toss her body into the bush like a mouse. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Why did my grandmother leave Mama with you?” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Most workboats get named for mothers or grandmothers, but my sister was the first girl born to the Parks family in two generations. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“When your grandmother was a child, he was nearly a man already.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I told Greg he didn’t have to come but he insisted on seeing his grandmother,” Mama lied. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Our grandmother pulled a handkerchief out of her dress pocket and dabbed at her eyes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Why had their grandmother gone outside to the back when Dicey knocked? Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, my grandmother takes my hand downtown pulls me right past the restaurants that have to let us sit wherever we want now. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

For his grandmother to be home when he got there. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

It was painful to know that our paternal grandmother lived less than a day’s drive away and we had not seen her more than twice in our lifetimes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Jennifer's grandmother answered the door and smiled down at me as if I had just recovered from a long fever. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I probably needed a diaper change, but to all the grown-ups it sounded like I was calling my maternal grandmother by name. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“When Del Monte took the peaches out of the tin and put them in a glass container, people said, ‘Ahh, this is something like my grandmother used to make.’ Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I wonder how different my life would have been if I’d stayed with my grandmother. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grasp a handful of shirt and the four points of my grandmother’s crucifix dig into my palm. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I cannot permit mice in my hotel, madam," he said to my grandmother. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

They still do that in my grandmother's house—gathering in the kitchen, chatting and laughing, celebrating the end of another day's work. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now that he was dead, it belonged to Mammachi, their grandmother, and Rahel and Estha were on their way to Cochin to see The Sound of Music for the third time. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother is a human, but I know for certain that she will always love me whoever I am. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

She'd heard her mother discussing this with her grandmother a while back, though she didn't say how they knew. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She insisted that her grandmother was aware of everything and that she needed her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could tell it was his grandmother by the way she hummed an old song as she worked. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I don’t love you as if you were my mother. I love my grandmother.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure what she sees, but when I look in my grandmother’s face, I see an ordinary old woman who doesn’t look anything like me or my mother. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Hu can write for me and he can read your letters to me. You can tell me all about your grandmother and how you feed the chickens and how happy you are.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wes reluctantly got up from the red plaid couch and turned off the television, but the truth was that he liked going over to his grandmother’s house. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And then, for the first time since being pregnant with Zoe and the last time before climbing in forever twenty-five years later, my grandmother took to her bed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Frank always thought his grandmother’s superstitions were silly. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But Luna knew something was changing in her grandmother. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The thought of going right up to my paternal grandmother’s residence, sitting down at her table, and tasting her cooking more than saddened me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Her parents had split up when she was a baby, and she had been raised by her grandmother, an old lady on a pension, who was very strict and old-fashioned and religious. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their grandmother was out in one field, wearing a broad straw hat, picking tomatoes into another of the bushel baskets. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I see your old grandmother passed on her magic.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

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

Let them play, for heaven's sake, my grandmother says, when we complain about them tearing it apart. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The grandmother stares up at the young man. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He tells her that only his grandmother Maria, who raised him, has that right. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“My grandmother’s throwing us a party,” Velia said, batting her long eyelashes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

As she brought it to Amah, her grandmother shook her head. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“My moms wants to go visit your grandmother and I just wanted to know if you knew the visiting hours.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

"The plain fact is", my grandmother said, "that your son Bruno has been rather drastically altered." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I carried their histories, along with those of my mother and grandmothers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Didu, my other grandmother, is making chicken curry and biryani rice. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My grandmother’s parents left Havana in the 1930s in search of work; at the time Jamaica was an island of relative prosperity amid the worldwide Great Depression. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

"He was so dead tired, he didn't hear the burglars when they broke in. They stole us blind. They even stole my shoes and my under—" The grandmother remembers it is indelicate to say so. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother is in her eighties, bedridden, all but senile, unable to eat or talk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"It's kind of creepy to hear our grandmother's exact sigh coming out of you, Anu." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She needed to know where her grandmother was. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

My grandmother drops us off and the other kids circle around us. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The only glitch had been when the ring vibrated, giving off a little alarm, refusing immunity to his grandmother’s new husband because he was a bot after all. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I stayed where I was, peeping out of my grandmother's handbag. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

"I was never more serious in my life," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

My grandmother is single-handedly peppering that mostly all-white school with dark faces. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ignoring me, the young woman continues to feed her grandmother. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Satchmo was named after Louis Armstrong, a famous jazz musician his grandmother loved. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

It couldn’t have been my grandmother, anyway, because she was in California this Christmas with her boyfriend, Uncle Gene. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was all a funny joke to us that Big Ma didn’t get, and for a moment my grandmother not liking my mother hurt like a dull toothache. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

There’s a pastel portrait of my grandmother that was done in New York by a street artist, which makes her look like she had a broken jaw. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t move in with my grandmother because her boyfriend caused too much trouble. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I see it. It’s beautiful. Where does your grandmother live?” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

But after my grandmother moves to New York, we only go down south once, for my aunt Lucinda's funeral. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“What does your grandmother think of all this?” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children washed the dishes while their grandmother watched them and told them where to put things away. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had long since moved away from her grandmother. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his father tells him to go back to his grandmother. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

My grandmother's sampler, from when she was a girl, said "Be Not Solitary, Be Not Idle." Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew this was unrealistic, but she was also a grandmother—and part of her hoped her only granddaughter was a genius in the making. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was at this point that Louisiana’s grandmother stuck her hand out of the azalea bush and grabbed Raymie’s ankle. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I liked her very much, but she wasn't a patch on my grandmother for telling stories. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

It all began at nine in the morning on a day in late July, when my grandmother showed up with Joey Pow and his brand-new long-lost cousin Zed. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pay attention to the words as my grandmother repeats them. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother had paid for her plane ticket, so she'd spent that money updating her wardrobe. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The house where she lived with the grandmother who had raised her was reduced to ashes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I hated that he was squinting at my grandmother. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

A market where his grandmother buys oysters for Chinese New Year. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I picture my grandmother, all four foot ten of her. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She suddenly remembered sliding the thin band of silver—her grandmother’s wedding ring—up and down her granny’s thin fingers. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I described Daisy Nation, my grandmother, as “renowned for her beauty.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

When her grandmother was away, Luna spent most of her time in the workshop. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Instead, she says angrily, your grandmother Maria sent you to sell spices in the market, where you learned about drugs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It gave me quite a turn, just like my grandmother always said, so I didn’t ask him about it. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother loved hearing about all the people in the North End. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

My grandmother in New York didn’t write very often, but when she did, I sent her one of my best school compositions, or a drawing, or a joke copied from the newspaper. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

"Look at that," the grandmother says to the young man at her side, who is looking at the baby in the neighboring cradle. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

In any case, Luna’s grandmother hastily shooed her out the door, and then her thinking went fuzzy, and then she was back inside pouring tea from the pot. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He wrote, “How long did your grandmother tell you I’ve been living here?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Her grandmother wants me to bring her home. It’s not up to us, honey.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He looked up at his bedroom window where his grandmother slept. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Defying her grandmother, she had started going out late and drinking liquor. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The moonlight’s help is only temporary,” her grandmother said. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother wanted them, but wouldn’t let them stay. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My grandmother used to bring me here,” Lovey said as we walked around looking at what had to be millions of flowers. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I knew why the priest put glistening oil on my grandmother’s forehead the night she died. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for the fatigue, her grandmother looked perfectly ordinary this morning. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ah . . . ah . . . tell your grandmother to wash God away with a little water and for your penance say one Hail Mary and one Our Father. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Sinita took a deep breath as if she were going to blow out all her grandmother’s birthday candles. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother Frances Noah was the family matriarch. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In the evening, Edward sat at the dining-room table with the other members of the Tulane family: Abilene; her mother and father; and Abilene’s grandmother, who was called Pellegrina. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Jenkins asked what the last school they had been in was; her grandmother looked at Dicey, and Dicey told her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was more dependable than my parents, grandmother, aunts, uncles, cousins, and big sister. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

That was the signature of my grandmother and the Greek ladies of her generation: the kindliness of their despair. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I knew my cousins were getting beaten for things that I’d done, but I wasn’t interested in changing my grandmother’s perspective, because that would mean I’d get beaten, too. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I had stacks of homework I had forgotten and drawings of my grandmother’s face on big locust bug bodies all taped to the floors as if she’d been squashed by a truck. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One evening, as I lay on my grandmother's lap in front of the fire, she said to me, "I wonder what happened to that little Bruno." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Please give your grandmother a big hug for me. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Bailey finds himself in a room that reminds him of his grandmother’s parlor, only smelling less like lavender. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Luna slid out of bed and slid out of her nightgown and slipped on a dress with deep pockets sewn all over, because it is how she asked her grandmother to make it. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

My mother, grandmother, uncles and aunts for various reasons implored me to do so. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are piles of scientific periodicals and little china figurines of fat-faced children that belonged to my grandmother. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

When she was done, her grandmother shook her head. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She walked over to the table in the corner and picked up a pitcher of lemonade that my grandmother made for all her guests when they first arrived. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

My grandmother grew so old she could not remember who she was. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Since then her grandmother carried her from town to town, putting her to bed for twenty cents in order to make up the value of the burned house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

On the evening before we left for England, my grandmother got on to her favourite subject once again. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The corset’s skirt dropped garters attached to nothing because my grandmother owned no stockings. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Question time over, Genie went back outside, but this time his grandmother had something to say about it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

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

Ordinary water, and tell your grandmother not to be bothering me again. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

To my grandmother, making us her own children meant she would lay down her life for us without even thinking about it. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He showered my grandmother with compliments, and for the first time in her life, she felt desirable. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But this bustling group of aunts and uncles swirled in circles as Sitti, their grandmother, threw her strong arms around each one of them in succession, squeezing so tightly that Liyana lost her breath. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother and I had already planned to take our summer holiday in Norway and we talked about almost nothing else every evening. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I could see that JimmyTrotter didn’t talk about his brother, mother, father, or grandmother or the accident caused by the oncoming trucker who had fallen asleep at the wheel while driving a tractor-trailer carrying lumber. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Eduardo’s family has been holding a vigil in front of the office since last night, his mother and father, his grandmother, his two sisters and his baby brother. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother got into the back of the taxi and sat down and put me on her lap. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

She had never longed for a magic wand, did not expect to marry a prince, and was scornful—most of the time—of her grandmother’s elves. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother's room and my own were on the fifth floor. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I made the collage the day after her grandmother was buried. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Your grandmother made an appointment for Raymond to see a specialist. Maybe they can save his foot.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He had threatened to kill me, but he had killed my grandmother instead. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In a corner of my mind I had realized that my mother was unreliable, hut Adele was a loving grandmother who had always done what she said. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

My grandmother was silent for a minute as her knuckles tapped the wood on the front door. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I remember how he laughed, I tell my grandmother and she smiles and says, Because you laugh just like him. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Although Doha wasn’t hungry, his grandmother gently coerced him to eat every bite, stroking his back the whole time. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He thanked me, glad to have a picture for his grandmother, and loped off. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

My grandmother found me screaming in agony, still straddling the cabinet door with my feet not reaching the ground. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Their grandmother stood on the top step and let them go past her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luna’s heart was pulled to her grandmother’s heart. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

With every story my grandmother came into sharper focus, but the woman taking shape from their collective memories was nothing like the woman I remembered. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I already knew Rosie didn’t sleep well, that she liked avocados, and that she was named for Ms. Solomon’s grandmother. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

When he walks alongside his grandmother, he hides his Bible under his shirt so no one will know they are headed to church. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Throughout the experience, in spite of her growing discomfort, she’d been astonished by her body’s ability to make life, exactly as her mother and grandmother and all her greatgrandmothers had done. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

How would she know if their grandmother’s house was safe for them? Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I still wear them after all of these years, for my grandmother.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“I wonder, could you tell us what sort of clothes your grandmother usually wears?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The bandages coil on the floor like red-dotted albino snakes, exposing the grandmother’s ankle. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my desk drawer, there was a box of stationery that my grandmother had given me for my eleventh birthday. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She had been so sick, he was relieved when his mother told him his grandmother was gone. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

My grandmother leant back in her chair and sucked away contentedly at her foul black cigar. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

A fleeting expression that might have been unaccustomed mirth, or might have been a twinge of pain, went across her grandmother’s face. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across town on this very same night, my grandmother is having a nightmare. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

“Welcome, welcome,” said the grandmother, spreading her arms wide. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

"She's never without her favorite comb. Her grandmother gave it to her a year before she grew ill. She wore it everywhere. Even in the bathing tubs." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But he had his moments of calm: when he slipped through some cellar door in his memory, back to his boyhood and the stories his grandmother used to tell him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Mabel was not due at her grandmother’s house in North Carolina until next week. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

She turned her chin up the way her grandmother’s chin was held. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most important, I owe a debt to my grandmother. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The coaches questioned his work habits and desire, and they were hardly inspired by his background— from the Southside, living not with his parents but with his grandmother. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

That's all the young kids used to talk about, our grandmother tells us, going to New York City. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

My grandmother scrubbed a handful of mint leaves up and down my back as she ran a comb through my hair. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She wrote a memoir about her childhood called Period Piece, in which she described her grandmother Emma, her Darwin aunts and uncles, and Down House. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old woman with a sour wrinkled face, their grandmother, sat closest to Olanna, clutching a handbag and murmuring to herself. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They all met in Dicey’s room over the kitchen, so that any noise they made wouldn’t waken their grandmother. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother died when I was seven, and at her funeral I threw a tantrum because she wasn’t waking up. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Luna interlaced her fingers with her grandmother’s and held on desperately. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

My grandmother is the kind of person who always thinks that no matter how bad things might seem, everything will always come out all right. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“I think I caught a cold. Probably from your grandmother because she’s always running around.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The books lined up in his bookcase had been lined up on Mike’s and Curtis’s shelves, except for the ones Kyle got each year for Christmas from his grandmother. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

In addition to a small biography of her grandmother, Candice and her mother had decided to include one of her grandmother’s favorite quotes: Just because you don’t see the path doesn’t mean it’s not there. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The last “first daughter” had been her grandmother, who lived in Istanbul now. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

But instead of heading to her grandmother, Candice was on a beeline to James Parker. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’m just rooting for Theseus . . . ... as my grandmother, in 1923, prepares to meet the creature hidden in her womb. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her own grandmother was given a large house as her dowry—the very house Marina later learned had been replaced by an auto repair shop. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

His grandmother’s house was a rambling gray stone mansion on twelve acres in North Vancouver. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Dicey thought about the bread dough rising in the big earthenware bowl back on the scrubbed wooden table in her grandmother’s kitchen. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once when I was little, my grandmother, in her usual logic-defying fashion, answered my request for another cookie by saying that my grandfather had been a tinkerer. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

"That was no trick I played on you," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Every day An Yi came to visit me, sometimes bringing me a bowl of sweet green bean soup from her grandmother. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t even know what the rosary means, which prayers go with which beads, and they’ve been around Pop’s neck or fist ever since my grandmother died. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother lifted a cold hand to Ivy and brushed it against her cheek. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Counting, Ten, twenty, thirty, forty deep into the winter until one afternoon gravity releases me and my feet fly free in the ropes, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety . . . as my grandmother watches me. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

And she kissed her mother and returned to her grandmother, curling up next to her night after night. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

‘My grandmother’s fields are next to a den of baboons, and she is worn out from guarding them. I am making a long rope to drag the fields closer to her hut.’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his father lived and his grandmother was scared the ghosts would turn their attention to this baby boy and take him instead. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Chinese guys, those rich guys, they have as many wives they like. I’m talking about those guys, really rich. “So my grandmother’s father, he has ten, twenty wives. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fiancée—he’s still calling Delilah his fiancee because she still has his grandmother’s ring—tried breaking up with him last night. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I lead my grandmother and my brother outside. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Before her, her mother—and before her, her grandmother—had suffered the same animal fate. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After her marriage, the girl invited the grandmother to come and live with her in the house of this rich chief and his son. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I've got crab pots set down by the dock,” their grandmother said. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I say this to my grandmother, she nods, says, Easier to stay where you belong. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I know my parents had their reasons to raise us without religion, but it still upsets me to hear my grandmother's peaceful beliefs denigrated. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Please take me back to the bus station. And listen to your grandmother. You shouldn’t drive all the way back to New York in the dark.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

My grandmother gave me a long and very severe look. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Whenever the prayer meetings were at our house, because my prayers were so good, my grandmother would want me to pray for everyone. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My grandmother’s face took on a sly, comical look. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like she had aged in four days as many years as there were between me and my dead aunts and grandmothers. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And when she woke up, Louisiana was still sleeping and Louisiana’s grandmother was still wearing her fur coat. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

An attractive high school girl had to look good to an eighth grader, especially one who had barely laid eyes on a female who wasn’t his grandmother. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

At any rate, she gently pried my grandmother from the rocker and helped her upstairs for her afternoon nap. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I know you weren’t feeling my grandmother, or her house, or me.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Carefully she moved her hands over the narrow ridge of her grandmother’s body until she came to her shoulders. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her pupils were daughters of the best families who had nothing to do and had taken up the fashion of ceramics, which was more elegant than knitting for the poor, as their grandmothers had done. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shot me a look that I couldn’t quite interpret, and then said, “Holmesy’s like a grandmother when it comes to the internet.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

My grandmother has never opened up to me like this before. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“But you were a newborn and we—we weren’t prepared for that, for two babies. And your grandmother had just been diagnosed...” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“My grandmother’s not well,” Luna told the widow woman. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

From inside the kitchen they heard James’s grandmother shout something over the oil and fan. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Sally, a grandmother from America, speaks about eating turkey on Thanksgiving. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Every now and then a staccato interjection from my grandmother. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the void left by the death of her parents, my grandmother grew up to be an ambitious young woman. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“So why doesn’t your grandmother like me dating you, other than I teach you bad words?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“They have some small children and an old grandmother. They need someone to help with the children and around the house and they are willing to take all three of you.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His grandmother would have been “too dark to pass.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try and take a deep breath, but I'm too squeezed in the small, hot space between the grandmothers. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And even when Candice made a mistake, her grandmother would tell her it was just a learning experience, and to keep trying. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My grandmother does and is very very careful not to wrinkle or soil them. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At fifty-seven, with her short, squat figure and intimidating hairnet, my grandmother was perfectly designed for blocking people’s paths. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His grandmother left all the pictures of him right where they were, on the walls and the tabletops. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was lying on the couch, a drink on the table beside him, talking to his grandmother on the telephone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

What else would my grandmother have seen on the streets of Detroit in 1932? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She was aware only of her grandmother’s cold, thin hand and the sound of her breathing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got some nectar. And some crackers. Um, my grandmother says ginger helps... I don’t have any of that, but—” “It’s okay.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But I owe it to Khalil to pay his grandmother a visit. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

They looked like Rose’s grandmother had earned them a long time ago. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

About the same time I was frightening my grandmother, Hugh and his family were packing their belongings for a move to Somalia. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She told her about the letter addressed to her grandmother, and how they believed James Parker wrote it. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Candice abandoned her play kitchen and walked over to her grandmother. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

How her grandmother had the love of fifteen mothers. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

My grandmother caught me before I got to the door. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last time Jennifer had felt like this, her grandmother was holding her copy of Women’s Basketball Weekly in one hand. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

My mother scrubbed me, my grandmother scrubbed me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Such tiny things! I thought you were mice,” said Tyr’s grandmother, and when she spoke it sounded like a crowd of people shouting. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Cora's grandmother had never seen the ocean before that bright afternoon in the port of Ouidah and the water dazzled after her time in the fort’s dungeon. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

My uncle Velile, my mom’s younger brother, lived with my grandmother, but he spent most of his time at the local tavern getting into fights. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My grandmother looked very much like my mom, and I could also see where Mom got her strength. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

My grandmother, too, is bruised, her shins are scraped and bleeding. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother laughs, her own voice sad and far away on the phone. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I looked around the basement where my beloved grandmother lay on her back, still and quiet. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Theydivorced not long after that, and my grandmother moved to Orlando with my mom, my aunt, and my uncle. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

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

“Did you know my grandmother?” she finally blurted out. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Holding the medicines and looking curiously at her grandmother, she waited. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

But my grandmother didn’t notice any of that. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“My grandmother says, ‘whites are for whites, Hispanics are for Hispanics, blacks are for blacks.’ Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their grandmother herded them outside before Millie could ask any questions. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I love the grandmother who raised me. I love the mother I lost. My love is boundless. My heart is infinite. And my joy expands and expands. You’ll see.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

For that brief moment, the grandmother looks vulnerable, desperate, human. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother did give me a Korean video game once. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She tried to avoid looking at her grandmother’s stooped back. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

With one nurse pushing her down by the shoulders and my arms wrapped around her leg, the nurse unravels layers of bloody bandages as the grandmother squirms and shakes to be free of us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anyone could take on a war god, his grandmother could. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I feel my grandmother watching me, so I look down at my sandwich instead. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Even when my girls were little, we'd go down there, my grandmother tells us. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother was asleep in her own bed on the other side of the room. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The boy played with it for more than three hours, shaping a number of crude figures that he took to show his grandmother. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My grandmother. She tells me it’s time to get going. Move on.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

I said with the right amount of neck-rolling, “Frieda Banks, if you care so much about why my grandmother was crying, then you can go to Herkimer Street and you can ask her.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“The Lord wants you to make peace, Ma,” our grandmother said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I don't remember our departure, but I can only imagine what it was like for my grandmothers to hug and kiss their grandchildren farewell with no assurance that they'd ever see us again. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Go laugh at your grandmother, mister. That old man is my father,’ he warned. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother patched up Bulelwa’s ear and made sure to stop the bleeding. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Of her three children from her first marriage, Mohammad was the only one who never lived with my grandmother after the divorce. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

After all, I told myself, she was my grandmother, and was proud of me and loved me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And who is your grandmother?” the emperor said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Well, she specifically said she didn’t want to be a grandmother.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

My grandmother had come forward now in her armchair so that she was sitting right on the edge of it. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

They got my grandmother to move in and watch over me. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in such a hard moment, my mother and grandmother kept their sense of humor. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My grandmother always complained that no good Methodist would ever put spirits into food. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother warned her, “Don’t mess with that boy, his eyes green, his army suit green, and his car green. You can’t trust him.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

My mom and my grandmother started talking and my mom told her why we were there. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even though James’s grandmother was barely taller than Emily and swam in one of James’s old Angry Birds shirts, she was still quite intimidating. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

That feeling—it tied her to them, to her mother, her father, her grandmother, with strong threads too ancient and precious to be broken. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was accepted; and from that period Jane had belonged to Colonel Campbell’s family, and had lived with them entirely, only visiting her grandmother from time to time. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

The last thing I see in my grandmother’s eyes is terror. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In all likelihood, her grandmother would still be sleeping when Luna returned—she slept so much lately. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Our grandmother was took ill yesterday. They went to see her, and while they was out, the flood come.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

So my mother brought kittens home, soft and purring inside of empty boxes mewing and mewing until my grandmother fell in love. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

His grandmother points to a neighbor with pale, scaly skin who has sniffed glue for a decade. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

For my grandmother, the very first time she saw the face of the man she was marrying was in their wedding mirror. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Let the Bible, my grandmother says, become your sword and your shield. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Her mother didn't thank her. park They were shopping for Christmas dinner, and it was taking forever because it always made Park's mom nervous to cook for his grandmother. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Other grandmothers with their sensible shoes, poufs of white hair, and flowery smells were nothing like Nan. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

His grandmother took in a long, loud breath through her nose and stared out of the front window, as if gathering herself. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

After we lost Amanda, my mother couldn’t sleep in the house and went to stay with my grandmother in Connecticut. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Their grandmother will take very good care of them, I’m sure.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe their grandmother didn’t know just what she wanted. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother's identity crisis is fascinating and frightening at the same time, like a slasher movie you can't stop watching. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There is the grandmother who slipped in the shower and broke her hip and is learning to use a walker. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

That was the worst of it—a single unfriendly question from a woman old enough to be Sasha’s grandmother. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother had taught her to knit before she died. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Born in Columbiana, Alabama, my grandmother had a gentle nature and soft-spoken ways. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at her grandmother, who was sleeping in the chair beside the bed. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Two grandmothers are in a bidding war over the child’s antique tea set. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My grandmother, however, was even more struck by the pastor’s son. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

"I'm frightened of that stuff," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I must have tinkered too much wondering how my invisible grandmother, illiterate and dependent on letter writers, could give us candy free. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to say that the only dead person I had ever seen before had been my grandmother. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw his parents, sister, and grandmother, and smiled. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Their grandmother served them bowls of hot oatmeal with brown sugar and milk to put on it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

His grandmother didn’t want to acknowledge it, but Reggie really did have it worse than a lot of his classmates. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Slowly, as I calmed, I knew that the Captain would never tell my mother or my grandmother what had happened in the boat. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if they were standing before a miracle, my great-grandmother, my grandmother, and Mr. Lucas continued praising the Lord like they were in church. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

When the Mass ended there they were at the door of the church, my mother with Michael in her arms, my grandmother. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

So when Caroline and I walked in, our parents and grandmother were already eating. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment, I feel closer to my grandmother than I ever have. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I can set the table,” she told her grandmother. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We would turn around and begin marching toward the school building or train stop until my grandmother’s car pulled away. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“The trick with people like Marsha Jean,” said Louisiana’s grandmother, “is to be forever wily, to fight back, to never give up or give in.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

My grandmother always cooked turkey and dressing for Christmas dinner. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I was four years old, I was asking questions neither my mother nor grandmother cared to answer. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She charmed them with heartwarming tales of making popadam in her grandmother’s kitchen while simultaneously introducing the old woman to the joys of hip-hop. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She felt their curious gazes as she whispered, “He took my grandmother.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Your mother, who looked like your grandmother and her grandmother before her. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Their grandmother sat in the same chair in the kitchen. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That must be her! My grandmother! Sing. Did she marry a man named—” “I knew there was somebody in your family named Sing! ” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to know because I adored our grandmother. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Yep, if I believed in magic, in ghosts, then I think maybe I was rising on the shoulders of my dead grandmother and Eugene, my dad’s best friend. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had tried to hide his shock when Juno had appeared, but she looked exactly like his grandmother had described—right down to the goatskin cape. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I had heard the story in my grandmother’s village when I was younger. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

His grandmother tells him to come home early. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“My grandmother wants me to go to Harvard, but my father wants me to take over the farm.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My grandmother told me she keeps them as slaves. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Where did your grandmother tell you I was before that?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had only met our grandmother once before, when she was around three. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The room he is in now is much less like his grandmother’s parlor. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Luna’s grandmother had never spoken about the fact that she would die someday. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

"OK,” Dicey would say, giving ground because privately she thought her grandmother was right, "but she’s not bad.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if her grandmother noticed the hairdo, she said nothing about it at the breakfast table. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Do you want your grandmother to die?" the doctor asked me. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Age isn’t stealing from my grandmother; it’s slowly unwinding her. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

My grandmother was the daughter of people who were enslaved in Caroline County, Virginia. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The twins, bless them, sent boxes of cookies their grandmother had made and letters written in alternating inks—black for Charles, red for Camilla. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I stare at the worn patch on the back of my grandmother’s housecoat and wonder what her face is like. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The grandmother was happy to do this, and she was very comfortable there, and very important. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Visiting my grandmother’s house every day and watching the strength she carried even when she was in pain made me take her words to heart. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I had a Psi number and the name I’d inherited from my grandmother. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She watched as the grandmother slid the grapes into her purse. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The poor girl then had only her grandmother’s house to go to. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“In the letter, your grandmother talks like this is something that’s going to happen soon. Him asking you, I mean.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

"The second one was very peculiar," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Even so, Marian was able to save enough to help her mother make a down payment on a small house in South Philadelphia, across the street from her grandmother’s place. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The study provided a strange interior solace—answering some of the questions that had so haunted my father and grandmother. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“But I think what my grandmother was saying is that it feels good to know someone knows your story, that someone took you in,” Maxine says. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

My grandmother was sitting in front of the house waiting for me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It’s the usual reunion—until my eyes meet my grandmother’s. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Not plain old tea. Earl Grey. It’s British. It was my grandmother’s favorite. I thought, ‘What if we make Earl Grey-flavored ice cream and put the halwa in it?’ A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I could happily sit on one of those wrought-iron balconies for days, or keep my grandmother company on her porch, with its ringside view of the sea. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear her grandmother moving around in the kitchen, preparing Jennifer's lunch, which Jennifer would soon eat at the kitchen table. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Also, from the backseat it was not possible to see Louisiana’s grandmother’s head, and so it seemed as if they were being driven around by an invisible person. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

But her maternal grandmother, Munawar, made a point of helping the poor whenever she could. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

"It's a big job all right," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Today, her breath smells like the sachets my grandmother sticks in her underwear drawer. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

In the photos my grandfather is taller than everybody and my grandmother just an inch smaller. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Candice thought back to her grandmother’s note on the back of the envelope. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I might have said some other stuff. But she needs to see her grandmother. And she has things to do on her own before, well, before she does anything else.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She travels each summer to see her grandmother in Luquillo, Puerto Rico, a beach resort town east of San Juan. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“He’s going to apply for a new position, one with less travel. And your grandmother’s going to visit more often.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

For reasons beyond our control, we never ended up getting a green card through my grandmother. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Your mother wants you to go to your grandmother’s. I talked to her long distance.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I sat on the floor, watching my grandmother. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

My mouth falls open, but I hide my surprise when my grandmother turns around and brings the sandwich over to the table. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

My grandmother does not always tell the truth. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The one, in fact, I wore to her grandmother’s funeral. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

And of course there were clothes, including the petticoat from my grandmother, one size larger than last year’s. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For years, we couldn’t forgive each other for misremembering even the color of our grandmother’s scarf. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Caroline was sure to leave the island, so the house would be mine after my grandmother and my parents died. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Various doctors came down infrequently, pulling a small white partition around the bed to offer my grandmother some limited privacy. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

And still the oddest, tiniest rise of anger surfaced when his grandmother talked to his father like that. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He stayed in Odessa and sometimes, when he went over to his grandmother’s house and talked about his father, it helped him through the pain of knowing that Billy was gone forever. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My grandmother said it could actually heal a cold.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

That was practically a “Hush up,” although our grandmother didn’t dare say those words to her mother. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“So you may learn something useful,” her grandmother said. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

"Seems like only yesterday your grandmother, God rest her soul, was chaperoning your father and me." The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“My grandmother doesn’t steal. White people give them to her.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we went in, the room was already crowded—babies, children of all ages, and women of all kinds: nuns, spike-heeled flappers, lame grandmothers, fat mothers and thin ones, brave ones and sniffling ones. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmothers were going to live for ever, and Thanksgiving would always be lace tablecloths, thin china and heavy silver that I stood on a stool to polish. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

My grandmother could have caught it, for that matter, but Terry Donnelly dropped it. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There followed an unpleasant scene in the Manager's office with the Manager, my grandmother and me. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

It would be awful if her grandmother was like that. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for nursing the baby, she was more or less free to hold him or put him down, same as if she was his grandmother or a maiden aunt. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I placed a finger over the left side of my grandmother’s face, and in photograph after photograph I saw the truth. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grandmother frowns as she looks out over the nursery. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

My mother—your grandmother—once told me my fortune, how my character could lead to good and bad circumstances. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

His grandmother makes a noise that may be a laugh or a cough or a combination of the two. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Margie was told that it had been a good marriage, a period of happiness for her grandmother. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As she begins, I realize that it’s a story I’ve heard before and my grandmother is getting a lot of the details wrong. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“What's more," my grandmother said, speaking with a touch of relish, “to a witch you'd be smelling of fresh dogs' droppings." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

My grandmother had convinced me that my prayers got answered. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Wes waited downstairs for his mother to take him to his grandmother’s house. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The grandmother screams and curses us, but the nurse continues to jab the cloth at the wound, wiping away the caked brown blood. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Grandpa was a boy, his grandmother was attacked by a lion. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

He remembers how he longed to have his mother with him each time his grandmother scolded him. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother had been dead for two years, but being surrounded by all of her things had brought a dull ache back to Candice’s heart. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

That was how my grandmother came to work for the Nation of Islam. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Of course a grandmother should like you, and I wonder once again if Lily has good reason not to. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

My grandmother’s dresser looks like it’s been dusted, and there’s a vase with dried lavender on top of it. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

When J.T. looked back at his grandmother, I jumped on my bicycle and tore out of there. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

And after a long while, Louisiana’s grandmother arrived, too. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

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

“Your name will be Luna. And I will be your grandmother. And we will be a family.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Dicey disagreed with her grandmother whenever she thought her grandmother was being unfair. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had to go to England, and my grandmother started making arrangements at once. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Jam’s mother had been born when there were monsters, and Jam’s grandmother had come from the islands, a woman entirely too gentle for that time. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

J.T.’s grandmother waved her handkerchief and called to us from the front steps. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Our grandmother stays in the doorway, as if she’s keeping lookout. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He was too pleased to let his grandmother’s stony silence quiet him down. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wait for him to absolve me of not remembering a mother who birthed me, a grandmother who saved me, friends who rebelled with me, and a suffocating fear I can’t name. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Doc said she had no idea how your grandmother was even doing because Mom—G’ma—quit coming in for checkups. She’d already reached stage three, and—” Dad pauses to take a breath. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

My mother and father both lived within two miles of where they were bom, and my grandmother lived one mile from where she was bom. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I peeked in the car’s backseat and saw my grandmother, Mama Lessie. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I called the grandmother, who had been taking care of the boy, to get me blankets and see to the afterbirth. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I assume your grandmother is the woman who prays every morning with corn pollen.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

On the twenty-sixth, just before we went on the ship, my father sent my grandmother a cablegram: sail- ING TODAY. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luna looped her arm around her grandmother’s waist. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She said almost none of her acquaintances knew her grandmother, who never went anywhere but to church, so there wasn’t much danger of it getting back to her. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your grandmother said you and your sisters were coming down. It was all she talked about for weeks.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

More and more, her grandmother’s mind seemed caught in the past. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had never really seen my grandmother’s hands before. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It touched down, and just as it began to taxi on the tarmac, the grandmother screamed and dropped her handbag. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Alba knew that her grandmother was the soul of the big house on the comer. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After her divorce, my grandmother's family essentially disowned her. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

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

Fern lifted her little turtle head higher instead of saying “So?” to her grandmother. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

And her grandmother tried to teach her about spells. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

"A person who studies witches and knows a lot about them," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Who is this alien, and what has it done with my grandmother? On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Two or three times a week, Enrique lugs buckets filled with drinking water, one on each shoulder, from the water truck at the bottom of the hill up to his grandmother’s house. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And Luna knew this and understood it, but now she felt that there was another magnetic field and another compass that her grandmother had never told her about. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Within a week, my grandmother was thumping around the house with her gold-topped cane and interfering with Mrs Spring's cooking. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

One night at dinner Dicey tried to find out something about her grandmother. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother made her way to it and sat down. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

She thought of James’s grandmother and her scolding tone, and she started to feel anxious that she would do or say the wrong thing. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I simply couldn't bring myself to believe what my grandmother was telling me. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Their grandmother was looking at him, with a contradictory expression, half amusement and half interest. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved my grandmother’s smile more than anything. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I followed my grandmother in saying the right thing. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Sierra’s grandmother, Mama Carmen, glared out of another photo; she had that look that used to light up her eyes right before someone got beat. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

His grandmother had several pictures of the Last Supper hanging in her hut. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure your grandmother is a great weaver,” the water monster said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And even though she is the age she is, my grandmother blushed and said, Sha! a shanda far die kinder, a remark I had heard many times before Grandma and Grandpa moved to Century Village. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

"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

His mother, sister, and grandmother all descended on him, pulling him into a crowd of arms and kisses and yelling. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

My grandmother gets up suddenly and puts the lid back on the jar of peanut butter before returning it to the cupboard. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Had her grandmother gotten this far, only to fail to figure out the fourth clue too? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Some animals from my neighborhood. They’d beat up their own grandmothers for a quarter.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then my grandmother reached back and grabbed me, pulled me into the middle of the circle, and looked into my eyes. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The next evening, after my grandmother had given me my bath, she took me once again into the living-room for another story. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

If my grandmother hadn't passed away that morning, we wouldn't have stayed up late with the rest of our family. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

From the depths of the bedclothes in the corner came a dry-cracked-nasal tone—not a woman’s voice—not a living voice: it was the voice of the grandmother’s death. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

However bad the rest of the farm, the barn and the house looked, her grandmother had worked on these fields. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

His limbs tingled and tickled, reawakening from the five-hour drive to his paternal grandmother’s mobile home on Dine Homelands, forty-five minutes north of Church Rock. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I lost my mom, my grandmother... I can’t lose her, too.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In my house, my grandmother says, you will do as I do. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Is his grandmother’s house even bigger than the one across the street?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In the middle of one border my grandmother had sewn a tiny satin triangle, a red heart to protect my mother at the neck, as if she were her baby yet. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother knew that in spite of America’s social climate, her children would be able to discern for themselves when an act was generated by pure racism, or simply by ignorance. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

"I saw one this very morning," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I smiled a bit, as I could visualize my grandmothers happy face at the end of this story. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I just had to find a way to tell my parents and grandmother. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was important that the grandmother like me. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tons of people told stories about my grandmother. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The grandmother listened to what the boy said and shook her head. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“So the Romans fought on the Confederate side? As a girl whose grandmother was a slave, can I just say...not cool?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

To think of his story as political fodder, and I'm ashamed of that to begin with, but when I stand down here, and hold his grandmother's hand, the world inverts. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It makes me smile—Scoob’s presence is always a ray of sunshine—but also makes me a little sad: that house he’s staring at used to be his grandmother’s. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Four weeks after my dad told us we were moving, my grandmother called for us. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And mostly her grandmother had raised her, she told me, since her own mother had never been around. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It must arrive safely or else my grandmother and I will lose each other. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother pulled me away from it, scratching my hand in the process, as she directed me to the fountain marked COLORED. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“My grandmother will be mad at me if I get killed.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“But I didn’t come here to upset you with news that’s beyond your control, Esteban. I came to speak with Alba, because I have a message for her from her grandmother.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered now why she did not pull Baby away from the grandmother who had rejected her at birth and why she herself did not move away from Mama’s hug. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I mean, when people compliment their grandmothers, especially their Indian grandmothers, they usually say things like, “My grandmother is so wise” and “My grandmother is so kind” and “My grandmother has seen everything.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Going home to be with my grandmother India was something I looked forward to every day. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your grandmother was the Keeper of the Forest,” said the fairy queen, who wore a crown of clover and sat upon a throne of holly leaves. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

My mother then transferred Granddaddy to Princeton Hospital, where my grandmother had died fourteen years earlier. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had begun to believe that the Mediterranean Diet that kept my grandmother alive against her will was also sinisterly retarding my maturity. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Even my grandmother, who must have been nearly the old woman’s age, called her “Auntie.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

"This is not an easy thing for me to explain," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I felt alone when I was in Honduras with my grandmother. I felt resentful towards my mother,” he says. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A barn owl brought Neville a small package from his grandmother. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

One thing I think about almost every night is what it would be like if my grandmother died. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If our hearts were feet, they'd surely kick somebody! the other infinity We are the chosen people, our grandmother tells us. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

"You must listen to me," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

My grandmother tells us it's the way of the South. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Ice on the roads and the fields, and the beach where his grandmother lives. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, my grandmother could have gotten it down. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

His grandmother would be at work by now. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Your grandmother taught me to read when I was only four. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

My grandmother had a direct hand in the cultural, social, and intellectual education of her children. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote my grandmother that I had watched a Chinese magician swallow three yards of fire. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the last day of August, his grandmother packs his clothes: his bathing trunks with the elastic band broken at the waist, his buckled sandals, the round straw hat he’s taken to wearing indoors. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was around ten years old, those scruffy children caused me the most painful and confusing experience I had ever had with my grandmother. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It can't change colour all by itself! What on earth were you trying to do, make yourself look handsome or something? You look like someone's grandmother gone wrong!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Personally? None. But my grandmother can sew anything, so I know it’ll be good.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Papa reached out for his stooped, tiny mother—Hanako’s grandmother!—and held her by leaning over. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I can tell you a story,” Pinmei said, her voice as hard as iron, “but it is not one of my grandmother’s.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Glumly, I watch my grandmother and about one hundred other people from forty or so different countries line up to become citizens. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

April was still wearing her hair in a messy upsweep and her mother’s ratty old fur stole, even though her grandmother had given her a great new jacket. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandpa had been in and out of jail for crimes he committed while intoxicated, and my grandmother had divorced him because he abused her. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Not how you feel when your grandmother—who also happens to be your best friend—dies. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z