| 单词 | grandparent |
| 例句 | Grandpop was the one who would always ask if Genie was taking care of his father, which made it seem to Genie that his grandparents expected him to take care of everybody. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z It felt quite odd walking and walking to wherever, to meet her grandparents for the first time, not having any of her things. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Marvin Stepson, who had spent years researching what had happened to his grandparents, told me, “Kelsie murdered them both, and left my father an orphan.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Every Sunday, they got dressed up, in nice pants and sweaters, and had dinner with their grandparents. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z I regret that my grandparents hadn’t been a bigger part of my life until now, but Mom and Dad had their reasons, I guess. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z It might have been brighter and more modern than the cramped space they’d shared with their grandparents in one of the San Antonio corrals, but for her, the house was too full of Henry. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She stayed late because it was Saturday, and on the way home, she and Park stopped at his grandparents' driveway, as usual. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z People talk about visiting grandparents in the hospital or sending birthday cards to a niece’s husband; single mothers live with their own mothers or share apartments with a coworker or boyfriend. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z His grandparents on Oahu doted on both him and his younger half sister Maya. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z James had spent the summer in Pennsylvania with his grandparents, and it felt strange to see him back. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z But I know my grandparents live in Bengaluru, so I could try to find them first. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She remembered, from her childhood in Rook Hill, visiting her grandparents’ graves in the family plot behind her mother’s old home. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Even with all our dinner table confrontations, I adored my grandparents and I was quickly making friends in the neighborhood. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z People’s parents got divorced, but whose grandparents got divorced? Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z This made a certain amount of sense: Mrs. Richardson’s grandparents had been in Shaker Heights almost from the beginning. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I will do the songs. But grandparents’ prayers for their grandkids are the strongest kind. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z All were well, having survived the events of the past year at an estate belonging to his wife’s grandparents in the mountains of Shillong. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z There were no grandparents, no aunts or uncles or cousins like other foster kids sometimes had. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I especially enjoyed spending the night with my grandparents all by myself. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z All the things in her grandparents’ house—all the things they didn’t even own—were old. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Helmuth misses the comfort of his grandparents next door, their quiet flat where he doesn't feel as though he's holding his breath, where he can escape to do his homework in peace. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “In Seattle for the summer with his grandparents,” he said, his face to the ground. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It needed to be said, but the words made the whole thing horribly uncomfortable, like watching your grandparents kiss. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z A day or so later, she left me and Trey at our grandparents’ house. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He only got to see snow when his mom would take him to his grandparents on her side of the family, who lived in Sawmill, Arizona. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Her parents decided they wanted to live closer to her grandparents all year round. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z An Yi had been sent away to spend the summer with her grandparents in Shandong, away from Shanghai’s turbulence. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She reminded herself to tell her grandparents to hide the rice in the locker at all times. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Three weeks later, in October 1958, my grandparents moved out of Hurlbut, one year before they would have paid off the mortgage. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When my grandparents moved to the United States, their first priority was to save enough money to buy this house on Paulding Avenue. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Up into the peaked space they carted my grandparents’ disassembled bed, the leather ottoman, the brass coffee table, and Lefty’s rebetika records. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Century Village where my Gershom grandparents live is not like any place I had ever been to. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z How many times had his grandparents stared into the same fire? Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z His older half brother, Tony, spent most of his time with his maternal grandparents or with his father in the Murphy Homes Projects in West Baltimore. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “Are you visiting one of your grandparents?” she asks as she drops the linens in a rolling cart. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z In one blow, all of our extended family in Narewka, some one hundred relatives—my grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins—had been murdered. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I don't know if their torrid beginnings cast a dark shadow on them, but my grandparents' marriage was laced with hardship and tragedy. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z They feared that the time might come when America would have to go again over to Europe and fight as they had done in my grandparents’ time during World War One. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s so odd not to smell the fresh, earthy, nutty smell that I’ve grown to associate with my grandparents. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z "How are you doing, Kabir? Are your grandparents good? Where are they, anyway? Didn't they come with you?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z When my parents come home, they rush my brother and me to get ready to go to dinner at my grandparents’ house. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Her grandparents didn’t have a mirror, but she was absolutely positive the skirt made her look like a girl in a Sears catalog, if they ever had a Japanese girl in the catalog. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z From now on I’ll be free on Wednesday evenings; You see, my grandparents made me sign up for a wood-carving class, but actually I go to a club organized by the Zionists. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Wallet-size photos of my grandparents’ nieces and nephews line the shelf in the hallway, along with the little baby Jesus and praying-hands statues that Grandma collects. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I like having three Indian grandparents, four if you count my dead grandfather. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I looked at the road and saw a lot of cars, and I knew they were all going to their grandparents’ house. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z He was raised by grandparents until they died, then put into foster care. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “But I’m going to be the only one without at least one grandparent here.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z They had no grandparents, no living family at all. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I was too young when my other grandparents died, but I’d heard so much about how my father’s father couldn’t bear to live without his wife. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Her grandparents had a little rice left, but it was not for Hanako to give away. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z But then she turned it to a court show about people who steal air conditioners from their grandparents. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z But the boy’s grandparents were not to be seen. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She still moved slowly compared to her grandparents, but there were fewer “leaners” that she needed to replant. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I don’t think my grandparents have changed anything in their house since Trey and I moved out. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Then he said furtively, “Our son came back tonight. I was coming to tell your grandparents. Will you tell them? It is secret to all but them. Please tell them thank you!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z To my grandparents, the answer seemed simple: all four of us would remain with them. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z From ten to noon every day my grandparents took care of me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It strikes me that the silent generation is my grandparents, and the idea of losing them causes a painful twisting in my heart. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “It will probably serve the young man well to get out of the city for a while. Perhaps his grandparents can talk some sense into him. We’ll be sure to keep him in our prayers.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z My grandparents’ eyes glazed over at the sheer activity, streetcars rumbling, bells clanging, and the monochrome traffic swerving in and out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In recent years, dozens of people have been killed by police in the course of these raids, including elderly grandparents and those who are completely innocent of any crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The one grandparent Molly remembers, her mother’s mother, died of cancer when she was three. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z On the evening of their departure he watches his parents standing in front of framed pictures of his dead grandparents on the walls, heads bowed, weeping like children. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z This story—grandparents killed in a Jeep crash, and sisters not speaking to each other—she should be bawling. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “You and Skyla are near old enough to be grandparents, and there you are, shacking up like a couple of teenaged field hands.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z There are pictures of my grandparents, who are all dead. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z In order to give them privacy, my grandparents were offered the attic. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They are also subject to legalized discrimination in employment, housing, education, public benefits, and jury service, just as their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents once were. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Now she's a star in India, I guess, and my cousin is being raised in Mumbai like a Bengali princess by her other set of grandparents. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The room, stripped of almost every trace of his grandparents, made its own hollow quiet. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z She wondered if her grandparents would like her. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Her parents had owned the inn before her, and her grandparents before them, and on and on. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The soft, maroon, flat-topped headgear of my grandparents’ former tormentors. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Mama said, “You must not eat them until we get to your grandparents’ house. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z From then on, my grandparents’ relationship began to change. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Seventh and eighth graders are too old for grandparents, apparently. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She showed the girls the picture of their mother and told them they had been born into a great family and she would take them back to see their true mother and grandparents. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “You don’t look so much like Aki. He look like his jiichan. Maybe you are more like other grandparent. But we must be careful with your back. We will fight to stop this.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z My costume was hanging up in an overflow closet full of out-of-season coats and my grandparents’ clothes that Mom couldn’t bear to give away. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I wondered if mornings were always like this in my grandparents’ house. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z My grandparents, once so inseparable, had drifted apart. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And someday I’d maybe go down to Mexico for real, I told her, maybe I’d even live there and learn Spanish and visit where my grandparents were from. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Mrs. Bucket was in the old grandparents’ room, serving them their evening soup. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z But she hadn’t thought that the sellers might get it from people like her grandparents. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Of my grandparents, my grandma Ellie was the least likely to kill any animals. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z His grandparents probably told him my name, but his using it without my telling him what it is sort of surprises me. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He had charmed them all, learned to sit on the floor and eat with his fingers, take the dust from her grandparents’ feet. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z As I sat next to her, trying to spin a basketball on my index finger, I heard my grandparents talk about how drugs and violence had slowly crept in. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In addition to being my grandparents, Desdemona and Lefty were my great-aunt and -uncle. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I tell Jay I’m going to my grandparents’ house, and she’s so caught up in their conversation, she only says, “Okay.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Without their knowing, my grandparents, on their way to America, were each carrying a single mutated gene on the fifth chromosome. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I looked forward to going to synagogue services with my maternal grandparents, with whom I was especially close. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I still haven’t gotten any answers when we pull into my grandparents’ driveway. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Luce didn’t care about criminally smitten grandparents or silkworm boxes or serenading clarinets. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z So it was with excitement and not a hint of misgiving that I waved good-bye to my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, ready to begin a new life. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z A woman was often referred to by her husband's name—as Jacob's wife, for example—while children were sometimes known according to who their parents or grandparents were. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z It was my grandparents’ house before they passed away. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Don’t get me wrong—I’m still getting to know them, but as far as I can tell, my grandparents are the coolest grandparents in the history of the world. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Still, she was starting to feel some regret, and now she was glad her grandparents didn’t have a mirror. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And he'd told her that his grandparents lived in the house next door, which had flower boxes, for Christ's sake. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z She felt that she never wanted to leave her parents and grandparents, and she felt that she did not want to be a tenant farmer her whole life. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He leaves the flat, doesn't feel like going home to his grandparents. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “I wonder what kind of cereal I should get for Becca,” Terry muses as they drape the Irish Wreath quilt on the girl’s bed, across the hall from her grandparents’ suite. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z So she asked, “Can you work in the fields for my grandparents? Your hand...” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z My mothers parents—my other set of grandparents—are Pickfords, and they are as unlike my grandparents Hiddle as a donkey is unlike a pickle. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z As the room fills with performers and siblings and parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles, I start to feel that awful feeling again. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The parents of a child provided, on average, half the content of that feature; the grandparents, a quarter; the great-grandparents, an eighth—and so forth, all the way back to the most distant ancestor. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I don’t know why I’ve never thought to ask my grandparents about their lives before. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The house was very quiet because the kids were four houses down the road, driving their grandparents crazy. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, her grandparents had given the nicest blanket to Mama and Papa, because Papa was the only son, so he was supposed to be spoiled. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z My mom has a few that my grandparents gave her, and she cherishes them. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He loved the calm, the order, the soft way my grandparents spoke to each other. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was fascinating to spend time with my grandparents and see where my parents got their personalities. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z My mother would wake us up in the morning for school, and before we had even finished getting dressed, she was off to work, leaving my grandparents to get us there. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “I like it when children spend time with their grandparents,” he said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They were at the very bottom of the hill, across the narrow road that led to the entrance of his grandparents’ property. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z All I got is my grandparents, myself, you, and my sisters. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “What about you? You never told me about your grandparents.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I think we felt as if we were in a fairy tale of our own, because everywhere we looked there were shiny new things that our grandparents thought we’d need for life in Spring. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Mr. Reed tells students they have to interview someone—a mother or father or grandparent—about their own portages, the moments in their lives when they’ve had to take a journey, literal or metaphorical. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z To get a sense of how daunting that figure was, the value of the Centenary scholarship my aunt won was probably as much as the sum of my grandparents’ annual salaries. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The trip had three functions: as a lecture tour, an opportunity for more fund-raising, and an introduction of the Lawrences’ first child, seven-month-old John Eric, to his Blumer grandparents in New Haven. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z People are out, heading toward their jobs or taking the little ones to the grandparent day care or school. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z My grandparents, unaware of their genetic mutation, concentrated on die more blatant disqualifications. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z After his grandparents went to bed, he rigged up an antenna and toyed with the radio dials, tuning in a German-language newscast on the BBC. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I tell Dad about how the birds’ grandparents escaped from Kennedy Airport, and I point at the air conditioner they live under. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Right here. Men and women, babies and grandparents. I kiss them and they shudder.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The canal showed the blurred reflections of the houses, just as it had done long before Prosper had been bom, before his parents and even his grandparents had been born. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z And I'm so glad that this nice policeman did all he could to find my grandparents. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z A few of my white classmates have been to a grandparent’s funeral. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z I had thought my mother’s rules were strict but soon realized that my grandparents’ were many times worse. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z They grew up privileged, not deprived, because they had mothers, fathers, grandparents, neighbors, church, family, a system that protected, sheltered, and raised them. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They were warm and I loved them the way any grandchild loves a grandparent. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z With a brave face he immersed himself in the sour odor of the parakeets, and in my grandparents’ own particular aroma, a mixture of mothballs and hashish. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z If her grandparents owned a million things, maybe they wouldn’t even have thought to save those stuffed animals. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “I can’t believe her grandparents are scared to let her come over here. There are a lot of white people who live over here. Don’t they know that?” she asks. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Pilar Ternera's son was brought to his grandparents' house two weeks after he was born. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z As for Adria and me, we would return to Spring to live with our grandparents. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “I know, Hana-chan. But you mustn’t. You just study hard. Do everything you can to help your grandparents. Do everything you can. But go on to bed now; you need to get up for school.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z In the Philippines, my grandparents had acres of fields where they raised tobacco plants with wide, full leaves. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Offerings are made to pictures of their grandparents and his father, rice poured into a pyre that they are forbidden by the management of the hotel to ignite. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z My grandparents caught a plane back to Florida; Myron and I grabbed one half an hour later to Newark. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I went out to his place—it had been my old home, too, my grandparents raised me for a couple of years—to clean it out. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Joseph tried hard to piece all the generations together, and he drew arrows between people he thought were connected, husbands to wives, parents to children, grandparents to grandchildren. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z My grandparents had every reason to believe that Sourmelina would keep their secret. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Laura Friendly was the founder of Friendly Connect, a social media company that parents and grandparents loved. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z If I ask questions about religion that my grandparents didn’t ask, it is not because I am intellectually advanced. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s your grandchild, which is more than any other grandparents it’s got can say for certain. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s a cardiologist. I could have stayed with my grandparents, but there wasn’t enough food for all of us. So I’m back until they give Dad the okay to go.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I’m sitting in front of the television at the Hotel Beverly, where my grandparents have been renting an apartment on the top floor. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z How did I not know that your parents, my other grandparents, had died? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “My grandparents were friends of his from church. They said he was a wonderful man and they’ll miss him a lot.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The grandparents were surprisingly youthful, or perhaps they had had easier lives than poor Ambuya. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In the elevator, the social worker attempts to prepare my grandparents for the sight of me, explaining the extent of my external injuries, which look bad, but are treatable. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, she couldn’t even count how many rows her grandparents had done. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Kendra considered her need, bier grandparents and brother were about to be killed. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “Do what your grandparents tell you to do.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z In the evenings, after he had finished his supper of watery cabbage soup, Charlie always went into the room of his four grandparents to listen to their stories, and then afterwards to say good night. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Then Amit and I would become a Bengali couple in an arranged marriage, playing the same roles as our parents and grandparents and Das and Sen family ancestors have for generations. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Sometimes when I stayed overnight at Gram’s, I’d overhear my grandparents whispering at the kitchen table. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Not even having a gift for her grandparents. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He stood in front of his house for a few minutes, then stomped over to his grandparents' house. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z There’s an unspoken rule that when your grandparent is serving, you have to get in the back of the line. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z "Come to my place tonight, and I'll prove the Nazis are lying. But wait until after nine, after my grandparents go to bed." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z She takes off her coat, the one that is black and velvet and that I have coveted since she bought it at some mall in New Jersey on a trip to visit her grandparents. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he went with his grandparents and sometimes with his parents. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z They spoiled me pretty good, I guess, but as a little kid, I liked the spoiling, and I loved my grandparents. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z It was my way of talking to both of my grandparents. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z His aunts and uncles, parents and grandparents align themselves against one another. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z We pull into the parking lot of this tall brick building that seems like it’s been around since before my grandparents were born. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Humiliated beyond anything I could imagine, I ran home to my grandparents and stayed inside until it was time to go home. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z I remember the social worker telling my grandparents and Aunt Diane that this was a positive step. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “This has been a tough summer for him with Quincy gone. Quincy is his best friend. He’s in Seattle with his grandparents.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Then I’ll have to figure out which parent to live with and which grandparent to visit. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z People are out, heading toward their jobs or taking the little ones to the grandparent day care or school. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z As I sat on the other end of the line, listening to my mother talk about “sacrifice,” I had no idea what my grandparents had given up. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The government can give grandparents money for food and health. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z They were going on a cruise because Kendra’s grandparents had asphyxiated. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z 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 She wore an actual, well, skirt, not one of those short-short ones, and what might have been bobby socks, and looked as though she’d just walked out of my grandparents’ Brooks Brothers catalog. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z When they first came to California, my grandparents picked asparagus in the spring and grapes in the summer and fall. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z His grandparents down the street watch Lucas, just as they took care of Andy and his two sisters when they were children. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Welcome, parents and grandparents, friends and honored guests, and most especially, welcome to my fifth- and sixth-grade students. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Seth and Kendra hugged their grandparents goodbye and then climbed into the SUV. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Thinking of him, she also looked for an opportune time to ask her grandparents if they needed help in the field. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It struck her again that Tariq’s parents could easily pass for his grandparents. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The Vaughan children came to love the Colemans: it was like having another set of grandparents. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Alex Williams didn’t inherit the skills to interact with authority figures from his parents and grandparents the way he inherited the color of his eyes. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I had made up my mind that recording both of my grandparents’ stories was an important project not just for school, but for me and my family. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z These people found me after my talks, seeming eager to talk about what we shared—to say that their dad had lived with MS, too, or that they’d had grandparents just like mine. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z And that place doesn't sound nice, like it might be my father's or grandparents' home. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Everyone knew who Permian was and who Mojo was, and I thought it would be neat to be a Permian cheerleader,” said Bridgitte, who had lived with her grandparents since she was eight. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They made up the next day, but my grandparents didn’t ask about our moving again. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z So, since I was with Jay last Sunday, this Sunday goes to my grandparents. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Usually her grandparents kept the store open on Thanksgiving and prepared tamales to sell alongside clay mugs of steaming atole. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Sailing across the ocean among half a thousand perfect strangers conveyed an anonymity in which my grandparents could re-create themselves. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Because neither set of grandparents has a working telephone, their only link to home is by telegram, which Ashoke has sent to both sides in Calcutta: “With your blessings, boy and mother fine.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “My grandparents were one of the first families to move out here,” she said. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z On the shelf of the rolltop desk, like a mantel under the grandparents’ photos, there were bowls of plastic tangerines and oranges, crepe-paper flowers, plastic vases, porcelain vases filled with sand and incense sticks. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m from Turkey. See, that’s my string. I’m not really Turkey Turkish. That sounds funny, doesn’t it? But my grandparents came from Istanbul. Ben, where are you from?” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Or grandparents or great-somethings, to tell me stories from “the old days.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z "I hope so. My grandparents are, anyway. Where should we go first?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We had awkward, backward names like Farinango, which our grandparents signed with an X on contracts they couldn’t read. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Jay really did leave me and Trey at our grandparents’ house. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z And Susie is proving to be a handful for her poor grandparents. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z My mom couldn’t take care of me at home and be violently sick at the same time, and my grandparents were away, so the ’rents couldn’t dump me with them again. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z We lived in a big house on Caroline Street with our grandparents for half the year before Mother moved us in with her. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Amma gasps, but my real grandparents find this as funny as Grandma Knife does. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z When his mom left to run something over to his grandparents, Park kicked her under the table. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z “They all have parents, grandparents. Else they wouldn’t be human.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z “He’s getting it. Russ sees a psychologist twice a week. You want to know what Russ told his grandparents two weeks ago?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z So even though Dad’s family seemed different, the three grandparents agreed they had to help out in every way. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Finally, bumping into the leather ottoman and the circular coffee table made of brass, he found my grandparents’ bed and, under it, the silkworm box. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z About Park and Tina and the bus and the fight, about the place between his grandparents' house and the RV. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z One Christmas my grandparents bought my brothers a Lionel train set. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They—or their parents or grandparents—must have started out poor at some point. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z If I ask enough questions, I usually learn that I know their families—their moms, dads, aunts, uncles, or even their grandparents. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Mom spoke it with her grandparents, but I don’t think she likes to anymore. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents’ lives. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Gliding nearly nude beneath the trees, cultivating their temporary gardens, the Yanomamo are often said to be windows into the past, living much the same lives as their great-great-great- grandparents. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The woman greets my grandparents respectfully and they welcome her and the boy in. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I've been with a dead person only twice before, at my grandparents' funerals when I was eleven and twelve, and then there was dim lighting and music. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I’m sure my grandparents would actually be happy to help Adam. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Clayton never liked the mushy song about the wings of love, but he could see his grandparents once had the kind of happiness that had wings. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z He is next door at his grandparents' flat, because Mutti is still asleep, tired from her night shift. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z My grandparents, Rev. Dr. James Thomas and Winell Thomas, met when he was an eighteen-year-old ministerial student in a small Jamaican parish and she and her parents were newly arrived parishioners from Cuba. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Every person, just as every corporation, must tend to his or her own economic destiny, just as our parents and grandparents in the mills, shoe shops and factories did. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z But if she had ever met her grandparents before, she surely would have dreamed that! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “My grandparents didn’t know who to trust. They decided not to trust anyone.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Link hears one sad story about a grandparent, and he’s lost his mind. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z This year the station was packed, not just with students and newsmen, but also with parents, siblings, uncles, aunts, grandparents, cousins, next-door neighbors, and utter strangers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Or, in my grandparents’ case, the circling worked like this: as they paced around the deck the first time, Lefty and Desdemona were still brother and sister. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The next day, when Charlie came home from school and went in to see his grandparents, he found that only Grandpa Joe was awake. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z At dawn, I leave a note on my bed for my grandparents and sneak out of the apartment while they're still snoring away like a couple of elephants. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She wanted to stay up and contemplate meeting her grandparents, but she was too exhausted. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Yeah, well, that’s what happens when you tell your child you don’t want to be a mom anymore and drop her off at her grandparents’ house.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z My grandparents live fifteen minutes away in Rockville, which is the city right next to us. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z This may explain why grandparents are in love with buying grandkids pajamas and bathrobes. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z It was her grandparents and her mother starting to come out of the field, though it was still light out. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I interviewed both of my grandparents one Saturday night in their bedroom. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Until a few weeks ago. The Empire raided us. A Mask came. Killed my grandparents. Took my brother.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z My grandparents can get into trouble as easily as a fly can land on a watermelon. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Like my father, my grandparents never let me walk anywhere alone. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z My grandparents almost never said no to Johnny. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Oh, yeah, this is really serious if he’s introducing her to our grandparents. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z My grandparents’ love- making was pleasurable but unvarying. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “I’m going to be at my grandparents’ cottage again. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Surrounded by grandparents and dozens of aunts and uncles and cousins, in a community where neighbors counted as family, pitching in when relatives couldn’t, Dorothy’s children’s lives would change very little. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “My grandparents went to the hospital,” he said. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z My grandparents Hiddle were my fathers parents, full up to the tops of their heads with goodness and sweetness, and mixed in with all that goodness and sweetness was a large dash of peculiarity. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z "Rani and Viji Ma'am are taking a walk together. As for finding your grandparents, that's the greatest success story of my career." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z All five of the Johnsons show up for dinner on Sunday night—Shanti, her parents, and her grandparents. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Somehow, he knows to hold Abby’s hand up, like grandparents do. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Of course, Penelope had no personal experience of what a grandfatherly interest might be like, since she had no grandparents of her own, at least that she knew of. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z All of the kids here had grown up together — their grandparents had been toddlers together. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z There were four stories, one for each generation: great-grandparents, grandparents, parents, and children. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z They walked together from his grandparents' driveway to the alley; then Park waited there in the shadows and watched Eleanor walk home alone. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z The painting might have been done by a second grader, a second grader who was now a grandparent. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z I think she gets bored here during the day, alone with her grandparents, who talk too loudly and smell like cabbage. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He imagined the special recruits’ futures as they themselves must imagine them: With nowhere else to turn, no parents or grandparents begging for their returns, they would devote themselves entirely to the Institute. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “My grandparents are from that generation,” I say. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z My grandparents knew that I was at a crucial juncture in my life. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Every other Sunday, I sit with my grandparents. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I learned later that Shanon had called to ask my grandparents if she could come to see us. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The Larsens were the grandparents who had been part of her life. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z That way, Grandma isn’t disappointed that I’ve chosen Jay over her more and Jay isn’t disappointed that I’ve chosen my grandparents over her. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z An only child, Denise was doted on by her parents and grandparents. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z There were men and women and children, families, teenagers, grandparents. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Too fast the summer leaves us, we kiss our grandparents good-bye and my uncle Robert is there waiting to take us home again. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z “Your grandparents worked really hard to build a life in this country” Mom said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “I wanted to be near my grandparents,” Russ says. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The backseats were packed with dusty children and dogs and toothless grandparents and rolls of bedding and boxes of canned goods. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “I don’t think your grandparents envisioned an accb dental death when they made this request. But we’ll make the best of it.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “Can you meet me at the bus stop? I told my grandparents you’d meet me and walk me back.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I told them we’d be gone just a short time; that we were going to visit my grandparents, my mother’s parents, in Norfolk. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It is not a liturgy suited to my parents or grandparents as much as to me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course I’m tired. But I’m not more tired than your father or your grandparents.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Never Grandpa. He thought the English words for grandparents sounded ugly. But you know, sometimes when I was trying to be funny, I’d call him Gramps. Just to see the look on his face.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The bed was given to the four old grandparents because they were so old and tired. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z I knew Radar’s grandparents were really old and lived in a nursing home down in Miami. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z “France was under Nazi occupation. My grandparents gave up their baby girl because they were about to be arrested and sent to a concentration camp.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Uniformed men take my grandparents' phones and even their keys, and we walk through something that Tanvi Ma'am says is an instrument made to detect metal. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z His grandparents live in the flat next door. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z After unloading the car, my mother began to tell my grandparents about what she had seen earlier, the woman buying the drugs from the young boy. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The thought of aunts and uncles and grandparents waiting for her there was cheering. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z On the rez, you know every kid’s father, mother, grandparents, dog, cat, and shoe size. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z By the standards of their parents and grandparents, and compared to many of their contemporaries, they had reached the mountaintop. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Actually, she and Akira usually used forks, not chopsticks, but she doubted her grandparents would have forks. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z My grandparents would pick us up after school, prepare dinner for the family, and get us to bed. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I walked up the stone stairs to see the front door open and my grandparents waiting there. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z As for Jasmine, she normally spent the whole summer at her grandparents’ house in Maryland with her twin brother and cousins. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Her family was headed to her grandparents’ farm outside the city of Hiroshima, and she’d been hearing for months that a single big bomb had been dropped there and destroyed the city. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z This rejection was a gift from your grandparents, who never tried to console me with ideas of an afterlife and were skeptical of preordained American glory. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z From her mother and father and back through her grandparents, I could sense a hundred years of anger and fear coming out toward me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I will tell this child of her ancestors and her grandparents and tell her the stories my father told me. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom, Trey, and I have been living with my grandparents for less than a week now, and I haven’t had time to redecorate. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z They were never born, because their parents and grandparents were murdered by the Nazis. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z And the difference between parents and grandparents was that parents were allowed to get real, real mad. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “We’ll put them back out when your grandparents visit in December.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It remained from before the Ruin, a time so far past that none of the people now living, none of their parents or grandparents, had been born. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is,” said Henry, “but we can’t do that. Too much red tape. The eyases would be grandparents by the time we got through all the bureaucratic loops.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z In a birdcage by the window, a green parakeet, the last surviving member of my grandparents’ former aviary, was moving back and forth on its balsa wood perch. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Genie had so many questions he needed answers to—he was getting nervous about the question backup—and his dear friend Google was apparently not a friend of his grandparents. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I had grandparents who’d lived through the horror of Jim Crow laws and the humiliation of housing discrimination and basically mistrusted authority of any sort. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The Baptist church, normally home to only the purest of Manifest citizens—meaning the ones who had parents and grandparents and even great-grandparents born in this country—was suddenly filled with strangers. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Though Fischer was alienating some people, such as Jack and Ethel Collins, who’d been virtual grandparents to him, he did remain close to his mother, as their ongoing correspondence at the time indicates. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And my grandparents figured if these rules had helped their children successfully navigate the world, they would work on their grandkids too. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z It’s a mix of my grandparents’ old friends and some new members of Grandma’s church group. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Here, in my grandparents’ house, I can’t run to my room. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I got to know the families, too, with their frolicking babes and grumpy grandparents, especially since some returned year after year. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Danielle’s parents and grandparents are pretty old-fashioned and religious. Just like my parents, who couldn’t find a way to be accepting of me and my situation all those years ago. They still can’t.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z I normally love it when my grandparents visit, but today it s pretty awkward. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z She had written it to her grandparents on Sunday, October 14, the same day her mother, along with Dessie and the baby, had checked into Geis’s Hotel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When the twins return, they tell everybody that Juju sent Char to live with her grandparents in Alabama. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z I just feel weird that my grandparents are acting so bummed out to be seeing me. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Come to think of it, nobody ever told me exactly how my grandparents reacted to this whole bar mitzvah thing. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z When he sees us, he says, “Do your grandparents know you’re here, Russ?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother insisted that I write a B & B letter to my grandparents. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z My grandparents told my mother about the changes that had been taking place in the neighborhood. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z And at the churchyard, in what they called the grandparents’ corner, she and Leon and Cecilia would stand in an interminable embrace in the long grass by the new headstone, again watched. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The villagers pushed through both wings, even your grandparents’ rooms, to find your aunt’s, which was also mine until the men returned. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z His grandparents sent him home after Hill Street Blues. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z “You girls won’t remember my grandparents. Lexie was only a baby when they passed. Anyway, they moved here and stayed. They really believed in what Shaker stood for.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We get in, and my grandparents squish me between them. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z We’re sitting on her steps waiting for Boy21’s grandparents to drop him off so we can walk to school and start our senior year. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When your grandparents died, they left your uncle and dad all their money. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The man and woman, who looked to be the age of my grandparents, welcomed me and allowed me to take a bath. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There are a few kids whose grandparents didn’t come because they live too far away. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Wes would often visit his paternal aunts, cousins, and grandparents when he went to Shake and Bake—they all lived in two houses on the same block. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I chewed on my pen and thought about my grandparents. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z His grandparents had a light on, on their front porch, and Eleanor's face caught every bit of it. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z My grandparents’ house has red brick and bright white trim and a pretty garden full of flowers because they love gardening. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z My grandparents were almost done raising their boys, and now here we were, four young children who needed the kind of attention and care that Grandma Nellie thought she was about to retire from. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But I discovered early in life—from my grandparents, my pastor, and others—that in God’s eyes, no life should be lived in hatred or unforgiveness. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I respect my grandparents,” he said, putting her to shame. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Moms and dads and grandparents were already standing around the gym, anxiously snapping pictures of nothing important. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Add the word ‘great’ in front of ‘grandparent’ 300 times: it will fill just over half a page of print. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I must have sensed the timing was right, for my grandparents had just returned from their trip, and the dictator's raids would begin. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It’s as if I’ve gone from being eleven back then to being really old now, at least as old as my grandparents, who are in their sixties. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z He says this to Isaac because Isaac’s grandparents were part of the Young Lords Party, a Puerto Rican civil rights group. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z “Otherwise he just listens to me, Lena, and your grandparents.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Noah said, "I would like to live over the day I was best man at a wedding in Century Village that involved four grandparents—two of mine and one each of two other Souls." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Along with tens of thousands of other black people, my grandparents were forcibly relocated to Soweto, to a neighborhood called the Meadowlands. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It turned out that her grandparents were giving them their big bedroom and were taking a tiny bedroom for themselves. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The doorbell rings and there are my grandparents, Baba and Zeide. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z As I think back to that way of life now so distant, I feel a sense of longing, particularly for my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z It was summer holiday, and the following morning I was supposed to travel to Dowa to spend time with my grandparents. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z They went on Christmas and Easter for the long services with their grandparents in the Bronx. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z If you don’t have parents you have to call your grandparents or your foster parents or some relative or family friend. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Husbands and grandparents are still asleep in the bedrooms. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Plus my grandparents were already on their way out there. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z My grandparents gaped at it from the car, unable to move, until suddenly the front door opened and someone stepped out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Before the week was out, all my grandparents’ questions about Sourmelina’s marriage had been answered. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Once I was awake, I tried to separate the other aromas of my grandparents’ house: Some mornings the meaty, spicy scent of sausage came up the stairs; other days the sweet fragrance of fresh muffins. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z But most of the kids, or their parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents, had started out life in the South. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z My grandparents wanted to adopt her, but of course, Shanon’s mom wanted to keep her daughter close. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z How could I take care of two people old enough to be my grandparents? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I walk without looking back, all the way to where my grandparents are waiting. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z We’re crammed in between my parents and my grandparents on one side of the table. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I see my grandparents on land again, making preparations for another voyage. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But can I really play un-muffed in front of all the parents, brothers, sisters, and grandparents? Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Here’s the math on that one: Sixty kids in the grade equals sixty sets of parents—and doesn’t even include grandparents. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Oh, it was the man...or boy...who had run into her grandparents’ house in the middle of the night! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Young women, elderly grandparents, and too many children to count. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The night of my grandparents’ wedding, the sun set directly before the ship’s bow, pointing the way to New York. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In this way, our grandparents sold their land and then, forever after, paid the mestizos half their harvest to rent what was once theirs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of my cousins have come down from the Bronx and my grandparents came from the city on a train that goes under the ground. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z It was getting darker in the room, but for some reason, even in the dim light that hid their wrinkles, her grandparents looked older. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Okay, so my house is small and kind of cluttered because my grandparents refuse to throw anything away,” she says. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z My grandparents go indoors with our policeman while I wait in the courtyard for Rani. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z It was better, as happened with Khaled's own grandparents and himself, if you were able to let the violence stop when it got to you. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z My grandparents left for New York at the beginning of September. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z You know every memory I have of all my grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He invaded my grandparents’ bedroom and inspected the linens. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z On September 1, Helmuth bursts into his grandparents' flat and snaps on the radio. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z We are near my other grandparents' house, small red stone, immense yard surrounding it. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z I can see kids counting backward on their fingers, trying to figure when their grandparents or great- grandparents were born, when they came to America, if they would have made the Neck Cut. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “I doubt that very much. Families are very far-flung these days. Not everyone is as lucky as you are to have your grandparents close by.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z From two separate locations on the Giulia's deck, Lefty and Desdemona—and I can say it now, finally, my grandparents—watched the airy blanket float away. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But my grandparents feared that the threats would continue. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Did you drag out the trash? You forgot your grandparents’ last time.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Everyone is thinking about two days off from school, grandparents coming for dinner, the Syosset-Farmingdale football rivalry, and all that. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Even the wishing coins at the bottom of my grandparents’ pond have been fished out. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died, his mother yelling at him when he forgot one day and had a hamburger at school. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z My grandparents would remain married for thirty-five years, until the day Ata Baba died of a heart attack. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Phoebe’s parents reminded me a lot of my other grandparents—the Pickfords. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z It was mad weird seeing across the border for the first time in my entire life, taking in the country where my grandparents were born. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The summer before, we spent many weekends at my grandparents' lake house in the Poconos. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z There’s a second story and an expanded den that my grandparents added back when my dad was a kid. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z A lot of kids have gone to sleepaway camps, or stayed with their grandparents or whatever. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z There’s a kind of day care where the grandparents take care of little kids. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z After ten minutes her mom calls for Fizz to come up and say good-bye to her grandparents. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He sits next to me on the bus, and I find myself relaying some of the stories my grandparents told me. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z "Now that we've found your grandparents, you don't want to live with them?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I wonder about the existence of God because, unlike my grandparents, I live much of my day in a secular city where I do not measure the hours with the tolling bells of a church. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Shirls Avenue, my grandparents’ street, apparently turned into a dirt road just before plunging down a steep hill to their house and farm. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z "Your grandparents called to see if you're okay, Kabir. Apparently you gave them quite a fright, running off on your own so early. Next time you visit, bring them with you, all right?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z They brought along some money, which my grandparents had earned from selling a cow. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Frank, for his part, believed the boys tormented him because they, like their parents and grandparents, thought him a murderer. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Sneaky’s off visiting his grandparents for a few days, so I can’t run up to his place. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z At this same train station my grandparents had arrived a half century earlier. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z All through dinner, I kept thinking of Bybanks, and what it was like when we went to my grandparents’ house for dinner. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I finally reach row 33,1 want to stop and bask in the view of my mom and dad, Jeffrey, and my grandparents all standing together for me. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as he said that, I remembered the vision in my grandparents’ car. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Starry and I have heard how our parents met before their marriage, chaperoned by our grandparents in Ma's living room. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Formal schooling—if you could call what happened in the wooden barn next door to my grandparents’ house “formal schooling”—went only to fourteen years of age. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It wasn’t a particularly long trip from New Rochelle to the Bronx, where her grandparents lived, but the car was overheated as usual and Aaron complained the entire way. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It's too hard to talk about Amma, so I say, "How are we ever going to find my grandparents? Cities are so full of people. Isn't it going to be impossible?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z But it turned out that Hanako’s grandparents had discovered this afternoon that the wheat was being attacked by insects, so they did not think they could go to Kobe. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They searched his grandparents’ apartment and seized the radio, extra flyers, and the typewriter. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “My fathers from around here. Well, Maryland. Carries grandparents live down here, too. My grandparents live in Chevy Chase,” Darius says. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z But a long-lived fissionable isotope, especially one that could be chemically separated from its uranium grandparent, might be especially suitable for a bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Even though it’s not due until the end of the semester, I decide that I’ll finish off a first draft, so my grandparents can see how good the video is. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z She was almost as tall as him, because she took after her maternal grandparents who had been tall for Japanese. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Except for Grandma Post, none of my grandparents ever even met me,” I said. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z My father and mother didn’t discuss the situation in front of us and slipped into Greek when discussing it with our grandparents. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A mysterious woman to me, my only living grandparent. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “What you told me about living in the Scholars’ Quarter,” he says, breaking the quiet of the room, “with your grandparents and your brother. That was true, once.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I hugged and kissed my grandparents, and Babou surprised me when he kissed me back on the cheek. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I loved my grandparents dearly, but there wasn’t much to do at their house. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Her grandparents had returned to Japan when Papa was nine, more than twenty-five years ago. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z By then, my grandparents had a volatile relationship, plagued by the fact that my grandfather had engaged in an extramarital affair with a younger woman. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z My grandparents played “Billie Jean” at family gatherings, and I put on a show. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He said that his parents—my grandparents—were married in 1945. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z We’re having to cut corners and sell off our uncles’ cars and the furniture from my grandparents’ house from when Papito was making money. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “Experts agree children need to be close to their grandparents. It makes them feel secure, and when they grow up feeling loved they make better parents themselves.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Their grandparents’ store had the best fruit on the West Side of San Antonio. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “But wait until after nine when my grandparents are in bed.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z And soon: their parents, for a few years, and their grandparents, probably forever. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I was wishing we had never stopped at the river, and that my grandparents would be more cautious, maybe even a little more like Phoebe, who saw danger everywhere. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z What I mean is that I want to be able to tell my kids that I walked to school like my grandparents did in the “old days.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Worried that he might be sent to live with his grandparents in Kentucky, Hugh turned to the school's guidance counselor, who knew of a family whose son had recently left for college. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Happy birthday!” cried the four old grandparents as Charlie came into their room early the next morning. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z His momma named him in honor of my grandparents, her godparents. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The same enticement that had led my grandparents to do the unthinkable now offered itself to Milton and Tessie. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “My mother married Henry when I was little, but I never really knew him. We went back to live with my grandparents when she died.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t long before Adria became super attached to our grandparents. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I had not seen my grandparents in three years, not since my parents had begun telling the extended family that I was possessed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z For a long moment my brother stared hesitantly into the darkness above, before climbing, very slowly now, up to the attic where my grandparents lived. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Some of their extended family members, such as aunts, uncles, and grandparents, often accused them of faking it for attention, like Connor’s dad did. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The government classified and, to a considerable extent, segregated the entire North Korean population based on the perceived reliability of an individual’s parents and grandparents. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But it was also lonely, not having the common connection of grandparents or aunties like we used to have so often. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z It took longer to get to his other grandparents’ house, his mom’s parents, who lived in the Bronx, than it did to get to Jersey. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Jonas, I gave you a memory that I told you was my favorite. I still have a shred of it left. The room, with the family, and grandparents?” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Granddad was the last grandparent to die, and the only one I have any memories of. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z By Hitler’s definition, you were Jewish if you had at least one Jewish grandparent. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z As her grandparents trudged back through the wheat, Hanako gathered the boxes. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Your grandparents spent anxious minutes looking for me. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z My grandparents had fled their home because of a war. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “To see our grandparents,” Genie said, thinking Ernie had already made that clear when he said they were “kin.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z So what could my grandparents really say now? The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z They walked outside and down the walk, and when they got to his grandparents' driveway, Eleanor didn't stop. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z The bus kids were released as a group, while other children waited with Ms. Udell to meet up with their parents, grandparents, or babysitters. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z I mean, I would still have known, like, half the audience, and my grandparents weren’t going to miss this for anything. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z And she had met her grandparents, whose love had rinsed the anger from her hands. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I need my grandparents, but in a certain sense they need me too. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He had agreed to fly with her and her parents to Calcutta, to meet her extended family and ask for her grandparents’ blessing. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z "If you want to help, then can you help me find my grandparents, sir?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “All your friends. All the bullies. And their mothers and fathers have given up, too. And their grandparents gave up and their grandparents before them. And me and every other teacher here. We’re all defeated.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z I feel the spark of jealousy again as Emily and Soojin compare stories about living with grandparents and annoying little sisters. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I prayed for his cousins, too, and his grandparents, whether alive or not. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z That looks like it belonged to a grandparent. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z For the next six nights, under various meteorological conditions, my grandparents trysted in the lifeboat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z After my grandparents gave their daughter away to her husband’s family, they had dispensed all the adventure and all the property. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It shocked many Germans as they realized that their own parents and grandparents might be targeted as the next euthanasia victims. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The new plan is that she will accompany Susie on a visit to her grandparents in Washington. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z When my grandparents moved to the United States, in the 1950s, the South Bronx had already begun its transformation from a majority Jewish borough to one dominated by blacks and Latinos. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Everyone is obsessed with blood, with who your parents are, your grandparents—fractions of fractions. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z My parents and grandparents put a high value on education. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But my world is also a whole lot bigger than I could have ever imagined, because now it holds Rani and Jay and Lakshman and my grandparents inside. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Beyond that tower, through a guava orchard Tía Mimi had planted, lived my grandparents, in a great big house we went to for Sunday dinners whenever they were home. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Darin and I spent countless nights on the roof of our grandparents’ house tracing the path of the Great River, the Archer, the Swordsman. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It’s also the fact that my grandparents don’t really seem like they want me here. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Dorothy, who grew up without grandparents, basked in the stability and warmth of the extended Vaughan family, but loving in-laws could provide only so much salve for a missing husband’s companionship. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Something from your parents and grandparents,” I said. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He could swear, as he drove down the tree-lined street in the late morning light, that he saw dozens and dozens of flickering ghosts—his grandparents and their parents and their parents—watching him, smiling. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z But she could see her grandparents in the distance, and that gave her courage. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She called my grandparents to come take us to the hospital. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z But in 1645, just when he was old enough to appreciate this, she remarried and he was sent to live with his maternal grandparents. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I remember now that my mom bought these gourmet salads for my grandparents from a new salad-only place. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Whenever I spend holidays with my grandparents, I stay in my old bedroom. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Even though my grandparents started the process of adopting Adria and me as soon as we got back, we still called them Grandma and Grandpa. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z My own grandparents, whom I was to respect as well as love, were said to be jíbaros. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He had been told by his parents and grandparents that he must fall in love and really know a person before becoming committed. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z With our mother working so much, and our grandparents obviously slowing in energy, my sisters and I were supposed to look after one another. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Our grandparents became worried by our exemplary behavior. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z And a few years after that...they’d make his parents grandparents. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z In the house there are other people in the room with my grandparents. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Before my grandparents died, they would take me to church and I would wear stiff dresses with itchy lace. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “You know your remedies. Useful skill. Your grandparents were healers?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z This was why your grandparents banned Tarzan and the Lone Ranger and toys with white faces from the house. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z No, her grandparents ate like people who needed to eat so they could have energy to work. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The giant oak tree felt ancient, like the Bottle Trees on my grandparents’ farm. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z To them, Puerto Rico was the place where their grandparents lived, a place they visited on school and summer vacations, a place which they complained was backward and mosquito-ridden. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Americans of all sorts are awash in luxuries that would have dazzled their grandparents. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “You could go look in the Hall of Open Records. You’d find the names. But think, son. If you apply for children, then who will be their parents-of-the-parents? Who will be their grandparents?” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Today, we are parents and some of us are grandparents. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Back then, we all lived side by side in adjoining houses on a piece of property which belonged to my grandparents. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She had not known his grandparents were from Russia till now. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z My grandparents weren’t strangers to me; they’d spent quite a bit of time with us in Maryland. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Then, keeping the same taxis, we drove on to the grandparents’ house, where an emotional welcome awaited us. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that my grandparents knew they were needed in the Bronx, their desire to move back to Jamaica had faded. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Without a single grandparent or parent or uncle or aunt at her side, the baby’s birth, like most everything else in America, feels somehow haphazard, only half true. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z My mother and father have stoked each other’s indignation for almost forty years telling stories about land quarrels among the uncles, the inlaws, the grandparents. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As these new sights flooded my grandparents’ brains, they jostled with images from the day before. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When Mama Lessie was alive, my family would hop in the car on Christmas mornings and drive one hour south to Clanton, where we would celebrate the holidays with my grandparents. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “We also came to a decision. Your grandparents offered that all three of us stay here until we get on our feet. I accepted.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z But it seems like there are thousands, so there's no way to know which ones might be my grandparents. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z In my old house your grandparents ruled with the fearsome rod. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Papa held her gently, then said, “Your grandparents want all your attention. All right? Just remember to stop and think of us sometimes. All right?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “But if your grandparents don’t want you to, you shouldn’t go behind their backs.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I was excited to see Africa again, and to see my grandparents for the first time since I was a baby. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “I’m sure her grandparents could explain, could get you in to see Mia.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z We were in the grandparents’ house in Oslo and my mother said to me, ‘We are going to the doctor this afternoon. He wants to look at your nose and mouth.’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z In Calcutta, from taxis and once from the roof of his grandparents’ house, he has seen the dead bodies of strangers carried on people’s shoulders through streets, decked with flowers, wrapped in sheets. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Terryl and Michael sometimes would get silver dollars from their grandparents. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It’s hard enough not to have fancy grandparents whose names are carved into the bricks. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z When she first heard about Valley Forge, she told my grandparents about her plan. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z My grandparents had been separated for many years, and my grandfather had for some time lived alone in the South Philadelphia housing projects. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Our parents and grandparents were taught with little singsong lessons, the way you’d teach a preschooler shapes and colors. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I don't want to return to the noisy part of the city, but I need to get used to it if I'm going to search for my grandparents. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He led Eleanor through his backyard, then around the back of his grandparents' house to the driveway, past the spot by the garage where they liked to kiss good-bye. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z But once, she invited the daughter of the bishop at her local church to visit her when Terryl was visiting her maternal grandparents. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She cried for...everything...for the girls and boys with perfect hair locked up in camp, for the way her father’s face had aged, for her sweet, sweet grandparents. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It belonged to my grandparents and smells like the sandalwood incense my nani used to burn day and night. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Even some of their parents and grandparents got into the act. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The “vacation home” I was speaking about was the parsonage my grandparents had moved into when my grandfather came out of retirement to lead a congregation. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I think of another dawn, the one after my grandparents were killed and Darin was taken. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z At Yale, Lawrence’s closest research collaborator was Jesse Beams, another rural Midwesterner—his grandparents had migrated from West Virginia to Kansas in a covered wagon. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z See, last year a kid was murdered by a cop just a few streets away from my grandparents’ house. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The whole store is like an attic, full of stuff someone’s grandparents once owned but had no more use for. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandparents, who would meet us out there, had never seen the resting place of their youngest son. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I spent most of the summers at my grandparents’ house while my mother took classes. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Whatever the reason, we took a suitcase full of food up to the attic and stayed there for three days, watching the city burn on my grandparents’ small black-and-white. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I had grown up with the signs, and I simply obeyed their instructions, as my parents and grandparents had taught me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z "Maybe he knows your grandparents. After all, they worship at the same mosque, right?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He imagines grandparents and another aunt, a father who never got a chance to know him. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z My first delivery this morning is Miss Akkerman, who lives with her grandparents in one of the old buildings down by the museums. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z And how weird does my grandparents’ house smell, by the way? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess sometimes all grandparents can be embarrassing, or maybe we’re just getting too old for Grands Day, after all. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Young, before they had Clayton’s mother, and long before they had become grandparents. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z And yet she felt happy, here where her grandparents were eating so seriously, where the clouds hung like heavy fruit, where the wheat curved into the distance. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Through the grimy window it was all ugly big sideboards you get in grandparents' bungalows. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z My grandparents came to San Francisco when they immigrated. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z For the first time in years, Henry wrote letters to the kids’ grandparents in San Antonio. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “The Israeli soldiers—exploded a house. You know, like they do when they think you are bad. And the house fell on my grandparents. It was not their house.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He was traveling on the 83 Up Howrah-Ranchi Express to visit his grandparents for the holidays; they had moved from Calcutta to Jamshedpur upon his grandfather’s retirement from the university. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “He moved out over the summer. My grandparents always lived with us, but now it’s just my grandmother. He left her, after fifty years.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z To this day, if you dropped me blindfolded at my grandparents’ home, I’d know I was there as soon as you opened the door. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “My grandparents have lots of health problems, so the food in our house is pretty bland,” Sam tells me. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z During summer visits to Calcutta, strange men mysteriously appeared in the sitting room of her grandparents’ flat. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He set his grandparents' table without being asked, because it had always been his job. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z She went to her grandparents’ closet and slid the paper door to the side, just suddenly overcome with curiosity about their lives. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And that was why all the grandparents and parents in the room were actually just as tense and excited as Charlie was, although they were pretending to be very calm. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z There were things that had belonged to Lina’s parents, her grandparents, and even their grandparents—old, broken, cracked, threadbare things that had been patched and repaired dozens or hundreds of times. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I could understand his anger: it was one thing for a grandparent to withhold something like that from a grandchild, quite another for a father to keep it from his son—and for so long. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z How I loved being the center of my grandparents' attention! The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “I told her you were sleeping, and she said not to call her back because she was going to her grandparents’ cottage. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Mama seemed torn, but then she said, “We must respect your grandparents.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z My Sen set of grandparents are a lot easier to manage than Didu. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z One evening, when Charlie went in to see his grandparents, he said to them, “Is it really true that Wonka’s Chocolate Factory is the biggest in the world?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, in the shantytowns and working- class neighborhoods whole families—parents, children, and grandparents—took to the streets in their Sunday best, gaily making their way toward the center of the city. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The García girls left on that flight, as did my grandparents, uncles, and aunts and their families; then Lucinda and Susie; and finally, a few days ago, Sam and his mom. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Oak Park is a couple of blocks away from my grandparents’ house. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Because he was the father of the gods, and because he breathed the breath of life into our grandparents' grandparents’ grandparents. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Dorothy, her husband, Howard, and their four young children lived in a large, rambling Victorian house on South Main Street with Howard’s parents and grandparents. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But we know a lot about Christianity from our grandparents. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I relished seeing the familiar faces of my relatives, and I essentially met my grandparents for the first time. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She imagined her grandparents’ lives during the war: working, eating onions and sawdust, bathing, sleeping, working. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He had outlived all of my biological grandparents, and he had owned the house across the street from my mom since she was a baby. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z It probably already did with our parents and grandparents. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z And what about the nights when we all climb into our grandparents' bed and they move apart, making room for us in the middle. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z They were a lot older than my birth parents, more like my grandparents’ age, but I loved them both, and I was happy to be with them. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Every single one of my sons’ playmates has at least one parent or grandparent who was born outside the United States; that’s true of three of my own sons’ four grandparents. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Hey what,” I said, but my mind was still trying to figure out why I ever thought my grandparents would want me here after everything that happened in our family. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Hanako carried her grandparents’ food basket as they hurried back home. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And I don't even know my own grandparents' first names. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Audrey bit her bottom lip and said, “My parents checked me into a psychiatric hospital; I spent eight weeks there and then another month with my grandparents in Jersey.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z There is little in the way of small-town ties or big-city amenities—grandparents and cousins, longtime neighbors, vibrant boulevards, homegrown shops—that let roots sink in deep. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z And they have grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins, or even brothers or sisters who are already grown up. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Back home in Africa, the grandparents of her fiance arranged to give our grandparents sixteen cows in exchange for Adele's hand in marriage, per tradition. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z When everything had been sold or given away, Milton drove my grandparents’ remaining belongings in a rented truck the twelve blocks to Seminole. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z 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 Our grandparents may have seen it new when they were young. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z School™ is not so bad now, not like back when my grandparents were kids, when the schools were run by the government, which sounds completely like, Nazi, to have the government running the schools? Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I rush over to her and blurt out, "I can't go to live with my grandparents unless you come too." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Her room with the sheets tacked up for curtains also had a built-in desk, a chest of drawers, and a record player given to her by her grandparents. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Sitting in a high-backed leather armchair in Grandpa Sorenson’s study, Kendra wondered if grandfather clocks got their name because only grandparents owned them. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z |
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