Publisher Annotation: On an island junkyard beneath a sky that glows with radiation, a deadly secret lies buried in the scrap. Seventeen-year-old Eve isn't looking for trouble--she's too busy looking over her shoulder. The robot gladiator she spent months building has been reduced to a smoking wreck, she's on the local gangster's wanted list, and the only thing keeping her grandpa alive is the money she just lost to the bookies. Worst of all, she's...

On his thirteenth birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry receives a bag of sand which is immediately stolen by the evil Librarians who are trying to take over the world, and Alcatraz is introduced to his grandfather and his own special talent, and told that he must use it to save civilization.

Grandude brightens a dreary weekend for his visiting grandchildren, Lucy, Tom, Em, and Bob, by using his magic compass and postcards to take them on adventures around the world.

Publisher Annotation: David Walliams, hailed as "the heir to Roald Dahl" by The Spectator, burst onto the American scene with the New York Times bestseller Demon Dentist. Now the UK?s #1 bestselling children?s author is back with this high-flying adventure about a boy and his grandfather, perfect for fans of Jeff Kinney and Rachel Renee Russell. Grandpa is Jack?s favorite person in the world. It doesn?t matter that he wears his slippers to the supermarket,...

A child asks different family members about her late grandfather and learns of his characteristics through the features he passed down to his children and grandchildren.

When Nina asks her grandfather to take her fishing with him on his banca boat, his answer is always the same, "A boat is not the place for a girl." She knows that if her Lolo will show her how to jig the lines, to set the hook, and to pull in a fish, she can prove that girls can fish.

Frank is always honest and Grandpa Ernest tells him that he has to be honest but tactful.

A powerful tale of grief, love's enduring bonds, and secrets of the past from #1 New York Times bestselling author and master storyteller Stephen King.
Four years after the sudden death of his wife, bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls "Sara Laughs," Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved...

A little boy's grandfathers, one in America and one in Japan, teach him about baseball and its rich, varying cultural traditions.

Publisher Annotation: Arthur Louis Pullman the Third is on the verge of a breakdown. He?s been stripped of his college scholarship, is losing his grip on reality, and has been sent away to live with his aunt and uncle. It?s there that Arthur discovers a journal written by his grandfather, the first Arthur Louis Pullman, an iconic Salinger-esque author who went missing the last week of his life and died hundreds of miles away from their family home....