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| the war with grandpa: The War with Grandpa Robert Kimmel Smith, 2009-06-24 Don't miss the laugh-out-loud classic about a boy who leaps into battle when he's forced to share a room with his grandfather--now a major motion picture starring Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Christopher Walken, Jane Seymour, Rob Riggle, Cheech Marin, and Oakes Fegley! Peter is thrilled that Grandpa is coming to live with his family. That is, until Grandpa moves right into Peter’s room, forcing him upstairs. Peter loves his grandpa but wants his room back. He has no choice but to declare war! With the help of his friends, Peter devises outrageous plans to make Grandpa surrender the room. But Grandpa is tougher than he looks. Rather than give in, Grandpa plans to get even. They used to be such great pals. Has their war gone too far? WINNER OF TEN STATE READING AWARDS AN IRA-CBC CHILDREN'S CHOICE Peter tells this story with honesty and humor....By the story's end, Peter has learned much about the causes and effects of war--and human dignity.-School Library Journal The humor of the story derives from Peter's first-person account and from the reader's recognition of Peter's valiant effort to maintain two mutually exclusive emotions.-The Horn Book Magazine |
| the war with grandpa: The War with Grandpa Robert Kimmel Smith, 1984-09-01 Don't miss the laugh-out-loud classic about a boy who leaps into battle when he's forced to share a room with his grandfather--now a major motion picture starring Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Christopher Walken, Jane Seymour, Rob Riggle, Cheech Marin, and Oakes Fegley! Peter is thrilled that Grandpa is coming to live with his family. That is, until Grandpa moves right into Peter’s room, forcing him upstairs. Peter loves his grandpa but wants his room back. He has no choice but to declare war! With the help of his friends, Peter devises outrageous plans to make Grandpa surrender the room. But Grandpa is tougher than he looks. Rather than give in, Grandpa plans to get even. They used to be such great pals. Has their war gone too far? WINNER OF TEN STATE READING AWARDS AN IRA-CBC CHILDREN'S CHOICE Peter tells this story with honesty and humor....By the story's end, Peter has learned much about the causes and effects of war--and human dignity.-School Library Journal The humor of the story derives from Peter's first-person account and from the reader's recognition of Peter's valiant effort to maintain two mutually exclusive emotions.-The Horn Book Magazine |
| the war with grandpa: The War with Grandpa Robert Kimmel Smith, 2020-10-15 The award-winning children's classic - now a major film Peter was so excited that Grandpa was coming to live with his family - but he hadn't expected Grandpa to take his room... Peter loves his Grandpa, but now he feels he has only one choice: to declare war! With the help of his friends, Peter devises outrageous plans to make Grandpa surrender the room. But Grandpa is tougher than he looks. Rather than give in, Grandpa plans to get even. They used to be such great pals. Has their war gone too far? |
| the war with grandpa: A Guide for Using The War with Grandpa in the Classroom, Based on the Novel Written by Robert Kimmel Smith Karen Leiviska, Karen LEIVISKA, 1999-06 Lesson plans for using the novel The War With Grandpa in the classroom. Gives teachers curriculum ideas, unit tests, vocabulary and critical thinking lessons. |
| the war with grandpa: The Yearling Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 2011-06-28 An American classic—and Pulitzer Prize–winning story—that shows the ultimate bond between child and pet. No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as his family fights off wolves, bears, and even alligators, and faces failure in their tenuous subsistence farming, Jody must finally part with his dear animal friend. There has been a film and even a musical based on this moving story, a fine work of great American literature. |
| the war with grandpa: The War with Grandpa Robert Kimmel Smith, 2020-10-15 The hilarious story of a boy who leaps into battle when he's forced to share a room with his grandfather. Now a major film! |
| the war with grandpa: The War With Grandpa Robert Kimmel Smith, 1986-06-01 |
| the war with grandpa: Grandpa Stops a War Susan Robeson, 2019-04-09 It takes a man of peace to stop a war. The true story of Paul Robeson's visit to the front lines of the Spanish Civil War is a tale of courage and activism told by his granddaughter, Susan Robeson. Grandpa Paul was a world-famous actor and singer with a deep and rumbling voice, a man of peace and principle who worried about the safety of children and families living in countries at war. He wanted to use his voice to promote social justice all over the world. Though people warned Grandpa Paul that it was too dangerous, he traveled with his friend Captain Fernando to the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War to sing to the soldiers. And then something amazing happened... With gorgeous illustrations from fine artist Rod Brown, Grandpa Stops a War celebrates Paul Robeson's global activism and towering achievements, and shows readers the power of music in times of discord and war. An author's note helps readers learn more about the author's personal experience growing up in the Robeson family, and gives parents, teachers, and librarians more in-depth material to expand the reader's understanding of the war and Robeson as a champion of civil rights, global freedom, and world peace. |
| the war with grandpa: The War with Grandpa Robert Kimmel Smith, 1984 Upset that he has to give up the room he loves to his grandfather, Pete decides to declare war in an attempt to get it back. |
| the war with grandpa: Grandpa's Great Escape David Walliams, 2017-02-28 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, serves Spam a la Custard for dinner, and often doesn’t remember Jack’s name. But then Grandpa starts to believe he’s back in World War II, when he was a Spitfire fighter pilot, and he’s sent to live in an old folk’s home run by the sinister Matron Swine. Now it’s up to Jack to help Grandpa plot a daring escape! |
| the war with grandpa: Jelly Belly Robert Kimmel Smith, 2009-02-18 It's tough for eleven-year-old Ned—or Jelly Belly, as he’s known at school—to stop eating. At four feet eight inches tall, he weighs 109 pounds, and he keeps growing—wider! When his parents send him to a sleepaway diet camp, he and his bunkmates can't quite give up their old habits. Nightly cheating adventures keep the boys plump, betraying their secret trips. When Ned finally realizes there’s only one way to lose weight for good, his whole family is glad to help—except Grandma. Grandma loves to cook for Ned and is hurt when he rejects her treats. Can he resist temptation without hurting his grandma and himself? |
| the war with grandpa: This is What I Did: Ann Dee Ellis, 2009-02-01 Imagine if you had witnessed something horrific. Imagine if it had happened to your friend. And imagine if you hadn't done anything to help. That's what it's like to be Logan, an utterly frank, slightly awkward, and extremely loveable outcast enmeshed in a mysterious psychological drama. This story allows readers to piece together the sequence of events that has changed his life and changed his perspective on what it means to be a good friend and what it means to be a good person. This is What I Did: is a powerful read with clever touches, such as palindrome notes, strewn throughout the story and incorporated into the unique design of the book. |
| the war with grandpa: The Night the War Was Lost Charles L. Dufour, 1994-01-01 Long before the Confederacy was crushed militarily, it was defeated economically, writes Charles L. Dufour. He contends that with the fall of the critical city of New Orleans in spring 1862 the South lost the Civil War, although fighting would continueøfor three more years. On the Mississippi River, below New Orleans, in the predawn of April 24, 1862, David Farragut with fourteen gunboats ran past two forts to capture the South's principal seaport. Vividly descriptive, The Night the War Was Lost is also very human in its portrayal of terrified citizens and leaders occasionally rising to heroism. In a swift-moving narrative, Dufour explains the reasons for the seizure of New Orleans and describes its results. |
| the war with grandpa: Grandpa Green Lane Smith, 2011-08-30 From the creator of the national bestseller It's a Book comes this Caldecott Honor Book, a timeless story of family history, legacy, and love. Grandpa Green wasn't always a gardener. He was a farmboy and a kid with chickenpox and a soldier and, most of all, an artist. In this captivating new picture book, readers follow Grandpa Green's great-grandson into a garden he created, a fantastic world where memories are handed down in the fanciful shapes of topiary trees and imagination recreates things forgotten. In his most enigmatic and beautiful work to date, Lane Smith explores aging, memory, and the bonds of family history and love; by turns touching and whimsical, it's a stunning picture book that parents and grandparents will be sharing with children for years to come. This title has Common Core connections. Grandpa Green is a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Picture Books title for 2011. One of School Library Journal's Best Picture Books of 2011. |
| the war with grandpa: Saluting Grandpa Gary Metivier, 2012-09-14 Andrew wants nothing more than to see his great-grandfather honored for World War II. He learns about Honor Flights, a program that flies veterans to Washington, D.C. to visit a memorial dedicated to them, but his great-grandfather refuses to go. Andrew becomes determined to inspire him to celebrate his bravery and dedication to his country. Children and adults will appreciate this patriotic, endearing tale. |
| the war with grandpa: Tamar Mal Peet, 2015-09-22 From acclaimed British sensation Mal Peet comes a masterful story of adventure, love, secrets, and betrayal in time of war, both past and present. When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland half a century before. His story is one of passionate love, jealousy, and tragedy set against the daily fear and casual horror of the Second World War -- and unraveling it is about to transform Tamar’s life forever. |
| the war with grandpa: The War that Saved My Life Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, 2015-01-08 * Newbery Honor Book * #1 New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award * Forbes 25 Top Historical Fiction Books Of All Time selection * Wall Street Journal Best Children's Books of the Year selection * New York Public Library's 100 Books for Reading and Sharing selection An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War II, from the acclaimed author of Fighting Words, and for fans of Fish in a Tree and Number the Stars. Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute—she sneaks out to join him. So begins a new adventure for Ada, and for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take the two kids in. As Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read, and watches for German spies, she begins to trust Susan—and Susan begins to love Ada and Jamie. But in the end, will their bond be enough to hold them together through wartime? Or will Ada and her brother fall back into the cruel hands of their mother? This masterful work of historical fiction is equal parts adventure and a moving tale of family and identity—a classic in the making. Achingly lovely...Nuanced and emotionally acute.—The Wall Street Journal Unforgettable...unflinching.—Common Sense Media Touching...Emotionally charged. —Forbes ★ “Brisk and honest...Cause for celebration.” —Kirkus, starred review ★ Poignant.—Publishers Weekly, starred review ★ Powerful.—The Horn Book, starred review Affecting.—Booklist Emotionally satisfying...[A] page-turner.—BCCB “Exquisitely written...Heart-lifting.” —SLJ Astounding...This book is remarkable.—Karen Cushman, author The Midwife's Apprentice Beautifully told.—Patricia MacLachlan, author of Sarah, Plain and Tall I read this novel in two big gulps.—Gary D. Schmidt, author of Okay for Now I love Ada's bold heart...Her story's riveting.—Sheila Turnage, author of Three Times Lucky |
| the war with grandpa: On The Wings of Heroes Richard Peck, 2008-10-16 Davy Bowman’s dad looks forward to Halloween more than a kid, and Davy’s brother, Bill, flies B-17s. Davy adores these two heroes and tries his best to follow their lead, especially now. World War II has invaded Davy’s homefront boyhood. Bill has joined up, breaking their dad’s heart. It’s an intense, confusing time, and one that will spur Davy to grow up in a hurry. This is one of Richard Peck’s finest novels—a tender, unforgettable portrait of the World War II home front and a family’s enduring love. |
| the war with grandpa: War and Turpentine Stefan Hertmans, 2016-08-09 Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 A New York Times Top 10 Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year The life of Urbain Martien—artist, soldier, survivor of World War I—lies contained in two notebooks he left behind when he died in 1981. In War and Turpentine, his grandson, a writer, retells his grandfather’s story, the notebooks providing a key to the locked chambers of Urbain’s memory. With vivid detail, the grandson recounts a whole life: Urbain as the child of a lowly church painter, retouching his father’s work;dodging death in a foundry; fighting in the war that altered the course of history; marrying the sister of the woman he truly loved; being haunted by an ever-present reminder of the artist he had hoped to be and the soldier he was forced to become. Wrestling with this tale, the grandson straddles past and present, searching for a way to understand his own part in both. As artfully rendered as a Renaissance fresco, War and Turpentine paints an extraordinary portrait of one man’s life and reveals how that life echoed down through the generations. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout) |
| the war with grandpa: The War with Grandpa Robert Kimmel Smith, Richard Lauter, 1989 Upset that he has to give up the room he loves to his grandfather, Pete decides to declare war in an attempt to get it back. |
| the war with grandpa: The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins Clint McElroy, Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Carey Pietsch, Travis McElroy, 2018-07-17 Welcome to the Adventure Zone SEE The illustrated exploits of three lovable dummies set loose in a classic fantasy adventure READ Their journey from small-time bodyguards to world-class artifact hunters MARVEL At the sheer metafictional chutzpah of a graphic novel based on a story created in a podcast where three dudes and their dad play a tabletop role playing game in real time Join Taako the elf wizard, Merle the dwarf cleric, and Magnus the human warrior for an adventure they are poorly equipped to handle AT BEST, guided (guided) by their snarky DM, in a graphic novel that, like the smash-hit podcast it's based on, will tickle your funny bone, tug your heartstrings, and probably pants you if you give it half a chance. With endearingly off-kilter storytelling from master goofballs Clint McElroy and the McElroy brothers, and vivid, adorable art by Carey Pietsch, The Adventure Zone: Here There be Gerblins is the comics equivalent of role-playing in your friend's basement at 2am, eating Cheetos and laughing your ass off as she rolls critical failure after critical failure. |
| the war with grandpa: Bobby Baseball Robert Kimmel Smith, 2011-09-28 Ten-year-old Bobby Ellis loves everything about baseball, from the hits to the hot dogs. That's why he calls himself Bobby Baseball! Every day he dreams of becoming a major league pitcher and joining the stars in the Baseball Hall of Fame. And what better place to start his career than right here on his own Kids Club team, the Hawks? But the hawks' coach happens to be Bobby's father, who has other ideas. You're a natural second baseman, he says, expecting Bobby to be a model player who never makes a single mistake. Get real, Dad! When Bobby pitches three winning games in a row, the Hawks rule. Suddenly Bobby's life seems like one big basball game--games on the field, games on TV, and games in his mind. Can Bobby keep on winning? Can he count on Dad? |
| the war with grandpa: The War with Grandpa - Literature Kit Gr. 3-4 Eleanor Summers, 2016-01-01 Explore the complexities of intergenerational family relationships as one boy declares war on his older relation. Bring this novel to life for students, with well-designed and thorough vocabulary and chapter assessments. Imagine the problems that may arise from a grandparent moving in. Draw a scene from the novel as it is being described. Come up with reasons behind certain characters' actions. Complete sentences with words from the reading. Students get into the mind of Peter to understand his motives and reactions. Create a How Not to Start a War Handbook, detailing helpful tips on how to avoid fighting with family members. Detail all the things Grandpa did to get revenge on Peter in a Timeline Graphic Organizer. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. About the Novel: The War with Grandpa is a story about a young boy and his grandfather at odds. 10-year-old Peter Stokes loves his grandfather and is excited to learn that he will be coming to live with the family. That is, until he learns that grandpa will be taking over Peter's bedroom. Peter's two best friends encourage Peter to stand his ground and do something about this injustice. Peter soon declares war on his grandfather, who proves to be an even match. The two attack and counterattack each other until escalations lead to one finally surrendering. |
| the war with grandpa: Grandpa's Music Alison Acheson, 2009-09-01 Grandpa takes care of the garden, kneads bread, and makes music on the piano. Everyone in Callie's family helps out around the house, now that Grandpa, who has Alzheimer's, lives with them. The family becomes Grandpa's home team, and Callie loves spending time with them. As months go by, Grandpa forgets more, and he can't do as much as he could before. But he can still make music - his fingers remember the notes on the piano. And when he can't recall the words to a favorite old song, Callie helps him come up with new things that they can sing about together. Alison Acheson's thoughtful storytelling and Bill Farnsworth's touching paintings portray a family that learns to adapt to the challenges of Alzheimer's disease while making the very best of their time together. |
| the war with grandpa: House to House David Bellavia, 2012-12-25 On 8 November 2004, the largest battle of the War on Terror began, with the US Army's assault on Fallujah and its network of tens of thousands of insurgents hiding in fortified bunkers, on rooftops, and inside booby-trapped houses. For Sgt. David Bellavia of 3rd Platoon, Alpha Company, it quickly turned into a battle on foot, from street to street and house to house. On the second day, he and his men laid siege to a mosque, only to be driven to a rooftop and surrounded, before heavy artillery could smash through to rescue them. By the third day, Bellavia charges an insurgent-filled house and finds himself trapped with six enemy fighters. One by one, he shoots, wrestles, stabs, and kills five of them, until his men arrive to take care of the final target. It is one of the most hair-raising battle stories of any age -- yet it does not spell the end of Bellavia's service. It would take serveral more weeks before the Battle of Fallujah finally came to a close, with Bellavia, miraculously, alive. In the words of the author: HOUSE TO HOUSE holds nothing back. It is a raw, gritty look at killing and combat and how men react to it. It is gut-wrenching, shocking and brutal. It is honest. It is not a glorification of war. Yet it will not shy from acknowledging this: sometimes it takes something as terrible as war for the full beauty of the human spirit to emerge. |
| the war with grandpa: The War with Grandpa Smith Robert Kimmel, 2014-07-01 Captures the anger and frustration that accompanies a child's inability to control his life.--School Library Journal. |
| the war with grandpa: The War With Grandpa Robert Kimmel Smith, 1984-01 Peter becomes determined to get his room back after he is forced to give it up to his grandfather. |
| the war with grandpa: Alex Asks Grandpa about the Olden Days Gary Wilhelm, 2019-11 This is the story of a young boy asking his grandfather about how life was long ago. So many times, children ask about the olden days. This story explains a little about the 1940s to the young boy. Party line phones, radios with dials, books such as The Lone Ranger, chicks sent through the US Mail to the Post Office, farm life, neighborhood blacksmiths who fix the bicycles of children are all part of the story. |
| the war with grandpa: First Offensive Henry I. Shaw, Jr., 1996-11 |
| the war with grandpa: Spot Loves His Grandpa Eric Hill, 2018-05 |
| the war with grandpa: Chocolate Fever Robert Kimmel Smith, 2006 Henry breaks out in brown bumps as a result of eating too much chocolate. He then gets caught up in a hijacking and learns a valuable lesson about self-indulgence. |
| the war with grandpa: A Rendezvous To Remember Geri Krotow, 2007-11-01 My dear Melinda, I hate to see you throw away what may be the love of your life.... Melinda Thompson knew that her grandmother had always adored Nick. But Grammy's gone now and Melinda's on the verge of divorce.... When she comes home to her widowed grandfather, Grandpa Jack hands her a leather-bound journal—and invites her to look into some family secrets. Grammy's voice rings out from the journal, begun when she was in her twenties and living in Nazi-occupied Belgium. Breathlessly, Melinda reads the story of a young woman involved in the Resistance and the British airman whose life she saved. The story of passionate love and a wartime promise. One that saw her grandparents, Esmée and Jack, through World War II. And a marriage of more than sixty years. With the example of her grandparents' lives, Melinda looks for the courage to believe again. In the love of her life. |
| the war with grandpa: Memoranda During the War Walt Whitman, 1990 During the Civil War, from 1862-1865, Walt Whitman spent much of his time with wounded soldiers, both in the field and in the hospitals. The 40 notebooks he filled became the basis for the extraordinary diary of a medic in the Civil War. |
| the war with grandpa: Api's Berlin Diaries Gabrielle Robinson, 2020-09-14 A haunting personal story of Berlin at the end of the Third Reich—and an unflinching investigation into a family’s Nazi past When Gabrielle Robinson found her grandfather’s Berlin diaries, hidden behind books in her mother’s Vienna apartment, she made a shocking discovery—her beloved Api had been a Nazi. The entries record his daily struggle to survive in a Berlin that was 90% destroyed. Near collapse himself Api, a doctor, tried to help the wounded and dying in nightmarish medical cellars without cots, water or light. The dead were stacked in the rubble outside. Searching to understand why her grandfather had joined the Nazi party, Robinson retraces his steps in the Berlin of the 21st century. She reflects on German guilt, political responsibility, and facing the past. But she also remembers Api, who had given her a loving home in those cold and hungry post-war years. “This a must read for anyone interested in the German experience during WWII” —Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped Scroll up and click “buy now” to read Api’s Berlin Diaries today |
| the war with grandpa: The Odyssey of Echo Company Doug Stanton, 2017-09-19 A portrait of the American recon platoon of the 101st Airborne Division describes their sixty-day fight for survival during the 1968 Tet Offensive, tracing their postwar difficulties with acclimating into a peacetime America that did not want to hear their story. |
| the war with grandpa: The Beginning After The End TurtleMe, 2021-03-19 I had to accept that I wasn’t just Arthur Leywin anymore, and that I could no longer be limited by the circumstances of my birth. If I was going to escape, if I was going to go toe-to-toe with the most powerful beings in this world, I needed to push myself to my utmost limit...and then I needed to push even further. After nearly dying as a victim of his own strength, Arthur Leywin wakes to find himself far from the continent where he was born for the second time. Alone, broken, and with no way to tell his family he’s alive, Arthur must rebuild his strength to survive. As he ascends through an ancient dungeon filled with hostile beasts and devious trials, he discovers an ancient, absolute power - a power that will either ruin him or take him to new heights. But the dungeon won’t give up its knowledge easily. Before he can plunder its depths, Arthur must learn to untangle the threads of fate. He must band together with the unlikeliest of allies if he hopes to escape with his life. |
| the war with grandpa: My Grandfather's War Glyn Harper, Jenny Cooper, 2018-06-12 The award-winning team of Glyn Harper and Jenny Cooper share this poignant story about a Vietnam veteran and his relationship with his granddaughter. While the relationship is a positive one, the young girl senses her grandfather’s pain and is curious to find out the cause of it. As she innocently seeks answers, she unknowingly opens old wounds and discovers her grandfather’s sadness is a legacy of the Vietnam War and his experiences there. This is a sensitive exploration of the lingering cost of war and of the PTSD so many returned servicemen experience. Released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Khe Sanh (the Vietnam War’s longest battle), My Grandfather's War also sheds light on a war that is not always remembered in the same way that the world wars and other conflicts are. Many who served experience a sense of betrayal at the treatment they received on their return, as the conflict came to be regarded as the ‘unpopular’ war, and this is covered in a child-friendly way in a note at the back of the book. |
| the war with grandpa: The Butter Battle Book: Read & Listen Edition Dr. Seuss, 2013-11-05 The Butter Battle Book, Dr. Seuss's classic cautionary tale, introduces readers to the important lesson of respecting differences. The Yooks and Zooks share a love of buttered bread, but animosity brews between the two groups because they prefer to enjoy the tasty treat differently. The timeless and topical rhyming text is an ideal way to teach young children about the issues of tolerance and respect. Whether in the home or in the classroom, The Butter Battle Book is a must-have for readers of all ages. This Read & Listen edition contains audio narration. |
| the war with grandpa: Moonglow Michael Chabon, 2016-11-22 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal • An NBCC Finalist for 2016 Award for Fiction • ALA Carnegie Medal Finalist for Excellence in Fiction • Wall Street Journal’s Best Novel of the Year • A New York Times Notable Book of the Year • A Washington Post Best Book of the Year • An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Slate Best Book of the Year • A Christian Science Monitor Top 15 Fiction Book of the Year • A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year • A San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year • A Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year • A New York Post Best Book of the Year iBooks Novel of the Year • An Amazon Editors' Top 20 Book of the Year • #1 Indie Next Pick • #1 Amazon Spotlight Pick • A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A BookPage Top Fiction Pick of the Month • An Indie Next Bestseller This book is beautiful.” — A.O. Scott, New York Times Book Review, cover review Following on the heels of his New York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure—and the forces that work to destroy us. In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother’s home in Oakland, California, to visit his terminally ill grandfather. Tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, memory stirred by the imminence of death, Chabon’s grandfather shared recollections and told stories the younger man had never heard before, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried and forgotten. That dreamlike week of revelations forms the basis for the novel Moonglow, the latest feat of legerdemain from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon. Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as “my grandfather.” It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and marriage and desire, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury, and, above all, of the destructive impact—and the creative power—of keeping secrets and telling lies. It is a portrait of the difficult but passionate love between the narrator’s grandfather and his grandmother, an enigmatic woman broken by her experience growing up in war-torn France. It is also a tour de force of speculative autobiography in which Chabon devises and reveals a secret history of his own imagination. From the Jewish slums of prewar South Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of New York’s Wallkill prison, from the heyday of the space program to the twilight of the “American Century,” the novel revisits an entire era through a single life and collapses a lifetime into a single week. A lie that tells the truth, a work of fictional nonfiction, an autobiography wrapped in a novel disguised as a memoir, Moonglow is Chabon at his most moving and inventive. |
| the war with grandpa: What It Is Like to Go to War Karl Marlantes, 2011-08-30 “A precisely crafted and bracingly honest” memoir of war and its aftershocks from the New York Times–bestselling author of Matterhorn (The Atlantic). In 1968, at the age of twenty-three, Karl Marlantes was dropped into the highland jungle of Vietnam, an inexperienced lieutenant in command of forty Marines who would live or die by his decisions. In his thirteen-month tour he saw intense combat, killing the enemy and watching friends die. Marlantes survived, but like many of his brothers in arms, he has spent the last forty years dealing with his experiences. In What It Is Like to Go to War, Marlantes takes a candid look at these experiences and critically examines how we might better prepare young soldiers for war. In the past, warriors were prepared for battle by ritual, religion, and literature—which also helped bring them home. While contemplating ancient works from Homer to the Mahabharata, Marlantes writes of the daily contradictions modern warriors are subject to, of being haunted by the face of a young North Vietnamese soldier he killed at close quarters, and of how he finally found a way to make peace with his past. Through it all, he demonstrates just how poorly prepared our nineteen-year-old warriors are for the psychological and spiritual aspects of the journey. In this memoir, the New York Times–bestselling author of Matterhorn offers “a well-crafted and forcefully argued work that contains fresh and important insights into what it’s like to be in a war and what it does to the human psyche” (The Washington Post). |
The War With Grandpa - Christian Answers Network
That is, until Grandpa moves into Peter's room, forcing him upstairs into the creepy attic. And though he loves his grandpa he wants his room back - so he has no choice but to declare war. With the help of his friends, Peter devises outrageous plans to make Grandpa surrender the room. But Grandpa is tougher than he looks.
This Means War (2012) - Review and/or viewer comments
14 Feb 2012 · When I pre-screened “This Means War,” it was currently unrated, because it was submitted for a re-rating appeal to the MPA. It was previously rated R for some sexual content. However, while viewing the film, I felt that it wasn’t deserving of the R rating, since I have seen much worse content in PG-13 films.
War Room (2015) - Review and/or viewer comments - Christian …
27 Aug 2015 · Their latest venture is called “War Room.” This drama posits that prayer is a battlefield. It tells the story of Tony and Elizabeth Jordan. They have all the material possessions of a successful family. Tony (T.C. Stalling) is a successful salesman in a pharmaceutical company. Elizabeth (Priscilla Shirer) has a good career in real estate.
King George and the Ducky - Christian Answers Network
The rest is a fairly close Biblical adaptation. Thomas is sent off to the Pie Wars, and his commander is ordered to put him in the front lines and then withdraw from him. A prophet (Grandpa Grape, with a flannelgraph) tells the King the story about the rich man and the poor man’s lamb, causing the King to condemn himself.
W (movie titles beginning with “W”) ALPHABETICAL INDEX
War of the Worlds (2005) Sci-Fi Action Adventure: PG-13: Very Offensive 2½: War Room (2015) Christian Drama: PG: Excellent! 4: War Within, The (2005) Drama: R: Better than Average 5: War With Grandpa, The (2020) Family Comedy Adaptation: PG: Not Recommended: WarCraft (2016) Fantasy War Action Adventure Adaptation: PG-13 : Warlords (2009) War ...
What is the Christian perspective on war?
The purpose of Just War Theory is to give us a common terminology, so that nations that wage war will operate within certain parameters that are just. As Christians, we need to be realistic, not naive. We need to get past the common white hat versus black hat assumptions about war. When it comes to war, there is rarely pure good versus pure bad.
Avengers: Infinity War - Christian Answers Network
“Avengers: Infinity War” is a spectacle to behold, a film that honors its predecessors and is worthy of the fans that will flock to see it. If you haven’t seen the previous 18 films and want to see this one, my suggestion—apart from re-watching all 18—is to find short summaries on-line before viewing “Infinity War,” as you may not be able to fully enjoy this film otherwise.
Glory (1989) - Review and/or viewer comments - Christian …
The inspiration for this film came from 2 books: (1) One Gallant Rush: Robert Gould Shaw and His Brave Black Regiment by Peter Burchard (1989), and (2) Lay This Laurel (1973), a photographic tribute to the Civil War sculpture of Augustus Saint-Gaudens with text by Lincoln Kirstein
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood - Christian Answers Network
He remembered my grandpa by name! That’s how Mr. Rogers is in this film, because that’s how he was in real life, and you get a beautiful glimpse of it here! In the film Fred Rogers talks much about forgiveness and says “It’s hardest to forgive those we love.”
The Forge - Christian Answers Network
23 Aug 2024 · This review won’t give away much as regards to the plot, but we do want to note that this is a spin-off of the movie “War Room,” so those who have seen that film will be delighted to see the return of some beloved characters. The “War Room” characters do not dominate this film—it is not after all a direct sequel. The writers gave ...
The War With Grandpa - Christian Answers Network
That is, until Grandpa moves into Peter's room, forcing him upstairs into the creepy attic. And though he loves his grandpa he wants his room back - so he has no choice but to declare war. With the help of his friends, Peter devises outrageous plans to make Grandpa surrender the room. But Grandpa is tougher than he looks.
This Means War (2012) - Review and/or viewer comments
14 Feb 2012 · When I pre-screened “This Means War,” it was currently unrated, because it was submitted for a re-rating appeal to the MPA. It was previously rated R for some sexual content. However, while viewing the film, I felt that it wasn’t deserving of the R rating, since I have seen much worse content in PG-13 films.
War Room (2015) - Review and/or viewer comments - Christian …
27 Aug 2015 · Their latest venture is called “War Room.” This drama posits that prayer is a battlefield. It tells the story of Tony and Elizabeth Jordan. They have all the material possessions of a successful family. Tony (T.C. Stalling) is a successful salesman in a pharmaceutical company. Elizabeth (Priscilla Shirer) has a good career in real estate.
King George and the Ducky - Christian Answers Network
The rest is a fairly close Biblical adaptation. Thomas is sent off to the Pie Wars, and his commander is ordered to put him in the front lines and then withdraw from him. A prophet (Grandpa Grape, with a flannelgraph) tells the King the story about the rich man and the poor man’s lamb, causing the King to condemn himself.
W (movie titles beginning with “W”) ALPHABETICAL INDEX
War of the Worlds (2005) Sci-Fi Action Adventure: PG-13: Very Offensive 2½: War Room (2015) Christian Drama: PG: Excellent! 4: War Within, The (2005) Drama: R: Better than Average 5: War With Grandpa, The (2020) Family Comedy Adaptation: PG: Not Recommended: WarCraft (2016) Fantasy War Action Adventure Adaptation: PG-13 : Warlords (2009) War ...
What is the Christian perspective on war?
The purpose of Just War Theory is to give us a common terminology, so that nations that wage war will operate within certain parameters that are just. As Christians, we need to be realistic, not naive. We need to get past the common white hat versus black hat assumptions about war. When it comes to war, there is rarely pure good versus pure bad.
Avengers: Infinity War - Christian Answers Network
“Avengers: Infinity War” is a spectacle to behold, a film that honors its predecessors and is worthy of the fans that will flock to see it. If you haven’t seen the previous 18 films and want to see this one, my suggestion—apart from re-watching all 18—is to find short summaries on-line before viewing “Infinity War,” as you may not be able to fully enjoy this film otherwise.
Glory (1989) - Review and/or viewer comments - Christian …
The inspiration for this film came from 2 books: (1) One Gallant Rush: Robert Gould Shaw and His Brave Black Regiment by Peter Burchard (1989), and (2) Lay This Laurel (1973), a photographic tribute to the Civil War sculpture of Augustus Saint-Gaudens with text by Lincoln Kirstein
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood - Christian Answers Network
He remembered my grandpa by name! That’s how Mr. Rogers is in this film, because that’s how he was in real life, and you get a beautiful glimpse of it here! In the film Fred Rogers talks much about forgiveness and says “It’s hardest to forgive those we love.”
The Forge - Christian Answers Network
23 Aug 2024 · This review won’t give away much as regards to the plot, but we do want to note that this is a spin-off of the movie “War Room,” so those who have seen that film will be delighted to see the return of some beloved characters. The “War Room” characters do not dominate this film—it is not after all a direct sequel. The writers gave ...
