My Grandfather's Picasso

Sometimes the only thing standing between getting busted and making a clean getaway is a good crew of friends. Growing up amongst the breweries and textile factories along the Montreal shore of the St. Lawrence River, a new outlook on life for computer geeks Émile Lalonde and Praveen Basoondial begins once Joe Mastrioni and Jonny Yurinov move into the neighborhood over the summer of 1986. From black eyes to broken hearts, and a small corner store crime spree, the boys struggle their way from grade school to University while hilariously overcoming the piles of lemons life keeps lobbing their way. Though Émile has always walked a straighter path than his friends, once he learns the truth of his grandparents’ harrowing escape from France in 1942, he sets off for Saint-Paul-de-Vence to right a wrong, hunt monsters, and take back his Grandfather’s Picasso. This book is for all the big boys and girls who are still young enough at heart to love a story of wild adventure, war, and the search for lost treasure.