Novels about children meeting their grandparents as young people
October 25, 2020 12:22 PM
I enjoyed the books Back to Blackbrick by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald and When Marnie Was There by Joan G Robinson. They are both stories about children who meet a younger version of a grandparent, in some form. What other books are like this?
Time travel is not strictly required, and I'm also not interested in general books about time-traveling children - I'm only interested when it allows them to interact with younger versions of their older family members.
I don't care if it's a children's book or not. I also don't care if it's a grandparent, but ideally a family member who is unavailable in some form in their regular life.
Time travel is not strictly required, and I'm also not interested in general books about time-traveling children - I'm only interested when it allows them to interact with younger versions of their older family members.
I don't care if it's a children's book or not. I also don't care if it's a grandparent, but ideally a family member who is unavailable in some form in their regular life.
Not a book, but Peggy Sue Got Married comes to mind.
posted by nkknkk at 12:56 PM on October 25, 2020
posted by nkknkk at 12:56 PM on October 25, 2020
Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic
(This is a Holocaust novel about a modern day Jewish girl who travels back in time to 1940s Poland.)
posted by angst at 3:20 PM on October 25, 2020
(This is a Holocaust novel about a modern day Jewish girl who travels back in time to 1940s Poland.)
posted by angst at 3:20 PM on October 25, 2020
A Dig in Time. Children are able to travel back to points in their family's history, but if I remember correctly this only works for blood relatives.
posted by lharmon at 5:09 PM on October 25, 2020
posted by lharmon at 5:09 PM on October 25, 2020
Displacement by Kiku Hughes, is a graphic novel, about a teenager who time travels to meet her grandmother in a Japanese internment camp.
posted by coevals at 6:27 PM on October 25, 2020
posted by coevals at 6:27 PM on October 25, 2020
The Fourteenth Goldfish, by Jennifer Holm. Grandpa was de-aged, so he moves in and goes to school with the narrator.
posted by gideonfrog at 6:31 PM on October 25, 2020
posted by gideonfrog at 6:31 PM on October 25, 2020
A book I loved as a kid and which held up on recent reread was "The Singing Stone" by OR Melling.
posted by jeather at 7:22 PM on October 25, 2020
posted by jeather at 7:22 PM on October 25, 2020
Octavia Butler’s Kindred has a meet-the-family-elders element
posted by childofTethys at 1:52 AM on October 26, 2020
posted by childofTethys at 1:52 AM on October 26, 2020
A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle (one of the sequels to A Wrinkle In Time) does this.
posted by Daily Alice at 5:42 AM on October 26, 2020
posted by Daily Alice at 5:42 AM on October 26, 2020
A Handful of Time by Kit Pearson is a really lovely example of this scenario.
posted by dotparker at 8:21 AM on October 26, 2020
posted by dotparker at 8:21 AM on October 26, 2020
I remember reading Building Blocks by Cynthia Voigt when I was a kid and I think it would fit the bill.
In this YA novel, a boy is tired of his parents fighting, so he goes to the basement and falls asleep in a fortress made of blocks. When he wakes up, he has traveled into the past and his dad is two years younger than him. He spends a day with his dad and his dad's family and learns more about why his dad behaves the way he does as an adult.
I made a shadow box of part of the story that takes place in a cave when I was about 10 years old, so that might be why the book stuck with me.
posted by tacodave at 5:35 PM on October 26, 2020
In this YA novel, a boy is tired of his parents fighting, so he goes to the basement and falls asleep in a fortress made of blocks. When he wakes up, he has traveled into the past and his dad is two years younger than him. He spends a day with his dad and his dad's family and learns more about why his dad behaves the way he does as an adult.
I made a shadow box of part of the story that takes place in a cave when I was about 10 years old, so that might be why the book stuck with me.
posted by tacodave at 5:35 PM on October 26, 2020
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in francine pascal's( she wrote this herself before the sweet valley high books) hanging out with cici Victoria encounters her mother as a kid in the 1940s
posted by brujita at 12:39 PM on October 25, 2020