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Grandfathers

Life Expectancy

Dean R. Koontz

Before he died, Josef Tock spoke an unusual and frightening prophecy that his grandson Jimmy, who was born the same night, would have to endure five dark days in his life beginning in his twentieth ye

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Nobody Else Has to Know

Ingrid Tomey

Fifteen-year-old Webber must either live with guilt or tell the truth about who was driving his grandfather's car when it struck and seriously injured a little girl.

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After the Rain

Norma Fox Mazer

After discovering her grandfather is dying, fifteen-year-old Rachel gets to know him better than ever before and finds the experience bittersweet.

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Bag of Bones

Stephen King

A tale of grief and lost love's enduring bonds, of haunting secrets of the past, and of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire.

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Everything Is Illuminated

Jonathan Safran Foer

American college student Jonathan Safran Foer sets out, along with Ukranian travel agent Alex Perchov, Alex's depressive grandfather, and the family dog, in an attempt to find the village where a Ukra

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Zazoo

Richard Mosher

Amid old secrets revealed and rifts healed, a thirteen-year-old Vietnamese orphan raised in rural France by her aging "Grand-Pierre" learns about life, death, and love.

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After the Rain

Norma Fox Mazer

After discovering her grandfather is dying, fifteen-year-old Rachel gets to know him better than ever before and finds the experience bittersweet.

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Gentlehands

M. E. Kerr

A teenage boy falls in love with an "upper-class" girl and gets to know his estranged grandfather in one heartbreaking summer which climaxes in a shattering search for Nazi war criminals.

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Gentlehands

M E. Kerr

A teenage boy falls in love with an "upper-class" girl and gets to know his estranged grandfather in one heartbreaking summer which climaxes in a shattering search for Nazi war criminals.

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Leroy and the Old Man

W. E. Butterworth

Fleeing from a neighbor's assailants, who believe he has identified them to the police, LeRoy leaves his Chicago housing project to live with his grandfather, a shrimp fisherman, in Mississippi.

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