Books with title Grandpa

“My grandfather is crazy.” So eleven year old Kerry Warren begins her story of the summer in which her family confronts the realities of aging. Grandpa has been part of their family for almost as long as she can remember. He taught Kerry to swim and made kites for her brother Matt, and the three of them collected rocks. Kerry can’t remember now when things started to change, when her life and Matt’s began to close out Grandpa. Suddenly there wasn’t time for him: she had places to go after school with her friend Jeannie, and Matt was busy with baseball practice and his stereo. And now Grandpa is different. He says strange things and sometimes thinks Kerry is the sister who took care of him as a child. There is worried talk in the family about nursing homes and the uncertainty of the future. As Kerry and her family live through the tensions of the summer, she finds that Grandpa has taken over the central position in her life from which he had been banished. She learns to know and love him in a new way. And as Grandpa’s past becomes for him the present, Kerry acquires a new understanding of her own place in the family.Her grandfather's increasing senility brings Kerry to a new understanding of both him and her own place in the family.

The first book in a series starring a boy and his jaunty grandpaGus and Grandpa make their debut in three lively and tender stories. In the first, Gus makes a mess while trying to feed Grandpa's dog, Skipper (Grandpa makes him clean it up). In the second, Grandpa loses his car at the mall (Gus finds it). In the third, Gus and Grandpa share a birthday party and exchange presents (Grandpa gives Gus a dog-food scoop for neater feedings, and Gus gives Grandpa a ball of yarn to help him keep track of the car). Claudia Mills's Gus and Grandpa, a pair whose enthusiasm and affection will captivate beginning readers, are brought to life by Catherine Stock in sparkling, sun-drenched pictures.

Like many elderly people, Grandpa Joe lives alone. Since he is lonely, Grandpa Joe always tries to start up conversations with people in the neighbourhood. Everyone is tired of listening to Grandpa Joe's repeated, meaningless talk - everyone except for a little boy who cannot speak. This little boy is a good listener, and has grown very fond of Grandpa Joe. When Grandpa Joe breaks his leg and is taken away, the little boy's life changes forever. Written by Ruowen Wang; Illustrated by Hechen Yu; Full colour, 32 pages, 8½ x 11