The War with Grandpa

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$7.99 US
5.25"W x 7.94"H x 0.36"D  
On sale Sep 01, 1984 | 160 Pages | 9780440492764
Grades 3-7
Reading Level: Lexile 640L | Fountas & Pinnell S

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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
© George Hausman
Robert Kimmel Smith is a writer, mostly known for his award-winning books for children. The War with Grandpa has received eleven State Reading Awards, including the William Allen White Children's Book Award and the California Young Reader Medal. His other works include Chocolate FeverJelly BellyMostly Michael, and The Squeaky Wheel. Smith is the recipient of the New York Library Association Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature for his body of work. In addition to writing award-winning books for children, he has written short stories and plays, as well as the script for the television production of Chocolate Fever for CBS Story Break. View titles by Robert Kimmel Smith
An Excerpt from The War with Grandpa

      This is the true and real story of what happened when Grandpa came to live
      with us and took my room and how I went to war with him and him with me
      and what happened after that.

      I am typing it out on paper without lines on my dad's typewriter because
      Mrs. Klein, she's my 5th grade English teacher, said that we should write
      a story about something important that happened to us and to tell it "true
      and real" and put in words that peoples said if we can remember and to put
      quote marks around them and everything....

      My little sister, Jennifer, just came in and asked me what I'm doing and
      I told her....

      "I think you should begin with me," Jenny said, "because I found out Grandpa
      was coming to live here before you even knew about it."

      "Good idea," I said.

      "And put in the story that I am very beautiful with long blond hair and
      lovely blue eyes."

      "I just did."

      "Now you'll have a good story," she said.

  • WINNER | 1994
    Massachusetts Children's Book Award
  • WINNER | 1990
    California Young Reader Medal
  • WINNER | 1987
    Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award
  • WINNER | 1987
    Pacific Northwest Young Readers Choice Award
  • WINNER | 1987
    Nebraska Golden Sower Award
  • WINNER | 1987
    Missouri Mark Twain Award
  • WINNER | 1987
    Kansas William White Award
  • WINNER | 1987
    Indiana Young Hoosier Award
  • WINNER | 1986
    South Carolina Children's Book Award
  • WINNER | 1986
    Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fischer Book Award
AN IRA-CBC CHILDREN'S CHOICE
 WINNER OF TEN STATE READING AWARDS!

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award (Vermont) South Carolina Children's Book Award
Mark Twain Award (Missouri)
Golden Sower Award (Nebraska)
Young Hoosier Award (Indiana)
William Allen White Award (Kansas)
Pacific Northwest Library Association's Young Reader's Choice Award (Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alberta)
Tennessee Children's Choice Award
Georgia Children's Book Award
Alabama Library Association's Young Reader's Choice Award

"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

About

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

Author

© George Hausman
Robert Kimmel Smith is a writer, mostly known for his award-winning books for children. The War with Grandpa has received eleven State Reading Awards, including the William Allen White Children's Book Award and the California Young Reader Medal. His other works include Chocolate FeverJelly BellyMostly Michael, and The Squeaky Wheel. Smith is the recipient of the New York Library Association Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature for his body of work. In addition to writing award-winning books for children, he has written short stories and plays, as well as the script for the television production of Chocolate Fever for CBS Story Break. View titles by Robert Kimmel Smith

Excerpt

An Excerpt from The War with Grandpa

      This is the true and real story of what happened when Grandpa came to live
      with us and took my room and how I went to war with him and him with me
      and what happened after that.

      I am typing it out on paper without lines on my dad's typewriter because
      Mrs. Klein, she's my 5th grade English teacher, said that we should write
      a story about something important that happened to us and to tell it "true
      and real" and put in words that peoples said if we can remember and to put
      quote marks around them and everything....

      My little sister, Jennifer, just came in and asked me what I'm doing and
      I told her....

      "I think you should begin with me," Jenny said, "because I found out Grandpa
      was coming to live here before you even knew about it."

      "Good idea," I said.

      "And put in the story that I am very beautiful with long blond hair and
      lovely blue eyes."

      "I just did."

      "Now you'll have a good story," she said.

Awards

  • WINNER | 1994
    Massachusetts Children's Book Award
  • WINNER | 1990
    California Young Reader Medal
  • WINNER | 1987
    Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award
  • WINNER | 1987
    Pacific Northwest Young Readers Choice Award
  • WINNER | 1987
    Nebraska Golden Sower Award
  • WINNER | 1987
    Missouri Mark Twain Award
  • WINNER | 1987
    Kansas William White Award
  • WINNER | 1987
    Indiana Young Hoosier Award
  • WINNER | 1986
    South Carolina Children's Book Award
  • WINNER | 1986
    Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fischer Book Award

Praise

AN IRA-CBC CHILDREN'S CHOICE
 WINNER OF TEN STATE READING AWARDS!

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award (Vermont) South Carolina Children's Book Award
Mark Twain Award (Missouri)
Golden Sower Award (Nebraska)
Young Hoosier Award (Indiana)
William Allen White Award (Kansas)
Pacific Northwest Library Association's Young Reader's Choice Award (Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alberta)
Tennessee Children's Choice Award
Georgia Children's Book Award
Alabama Library Association's Young Reader's Choice Award

"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

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