The War With Grandpa
by Smith, Robert KimmelFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1984-09-01
Publisher(s): Yearling
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Summary
Peter thinks the only way he can reclaim his room is by declaring war on his grandfather. Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, William Allen White Award, Tennessee Children's Choice Book Award, Parents' Choice Award, An IRA-CBC Children's Choice, Mark Twain Award, Young Hoosier Award, South Carolina Children's Book Award, Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award, Georgia Children's Book Award.
Author Biography
Robert Kimmel Smith was an award-winning author who wrote several popular books for children, including Chocolate Fever, The War with Grandpa and it's sequel--The War with Grandma--coming soon, Bobby Baseball, Jelly Belly, Mostly Michael, and The Squeaky Wheel.
Richard Lauter illustrated several books for young children, including The War with Grandpa. He lives in New Jersey.
Richard Lauter illustrated several books for young children, including The War with Grandpa. He lives in New Jersey.
Table of Contents
| Peter Stokes's True and Real Story | p. 1 |
| The Beginning | p. 5 |
| A Room Without Gloom | p. 9 |
| The Deadly Dinner | p. 11 |
| Sad and Blue as the Sky | p. 17 |
| I Promise | p. 20 |
| Bits and Pieces | p. 22 |
| Night Fright | p. 26 |
| Grandpa Jack | p. 30 |
| Another Night, Another Fright | p. 35 |
| Only a Dope Will Mope | p. 36 |
| A Little Help from My Friends | p. 39 |
| A Light in the Attic | p. 43 |
| War Is Declared!!! | p. 45 |
| It Takes Two Sides to Fight a War | p. 50 |
| The First Strategy Conference | p. 52 |
| Night Attack | p. 54 |
| The First Peace Conference | p. 57 |
| A Flag of Truce | p. 60 |
| A Slippery Customer | p. 64 |
| Strategy and Supplies | p. 67 |
| Slapshot | p. 70 |
| Time Out for Jenny | p. 75 |
| A Dirty Trick | p. 79 |
| And Dirty Words | p. 84 |
| Rocker and Roll | p. 88 |
| Go Fish | p. 93 |
| Playing Hardball | p. 100 |
| Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop | p. 104 |
| Jenny the Spy | p. 106 |
| The Shoe Drops ... Kerplunk! | p. 111 |
| The Last Strategy Conference | p. 118 |
| The Last Attack | p. 121 |
| War's End | p. 124 |
| Bottoms Up | p. 129 |
| Building the Peace | p. 134 |
| For My Teacher | p. 139 |
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Excerpts
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.
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.
Excerpted from The War with Grandpa by Robert Kimmel Smith
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