A boy's dying grandmother helps him say good-bye and accept life's changes.

A young girl tries to make sense of an unruly world spinning around her. Growing up with a single mother who is chronically out of work and dating a married man, 10-year old Evelyn Bucknow learns early how to fend for herself.

On the day Bethany Carlisle receives her doctorate, she learns from an unidentified e-mail that her grandmother has suddenly died. However, Bethany's dismay immediately turns to anger when she learns the contents of her grandmother's will. It's apparent that the wealthy, eccentric, and distant woman who raised Bethany has taken pains to torment her grand-daughter even from the grave. Now, in order to claim her substantial inheritance, Bethany must...

As their summer on Gull Island continues, the four twelve-year-old Callahan girls busy themselves with redecorating the Dorm, dealing with their mean neighbor Sloan, and uncovering a secret about their family's past.

Three friends take a trip to visit Granny Doodles and enjoy some of her buttered noodles, but not before fixing her wobbly table.

Having lost her glasses, Grandma Jo mistakes an escaped lion for her grandson and takes him home with her, an action that leads to surprising results.

"Followed by a wolf, a huntsman, and a porridge-sampling nuisance called Goldie, Red embarks on a quest to find a magical cure for her ailing grandmother"--

From Jennifer Weiner comes a story of two sisters with nothing in common but a love for shoes learn they are more alike than they thought possible.
Meet Rose Feller, a thirty-year-old high-powered attorney with a secret passion for romance novels. She has an exercise regime she's going to start next week, and she dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her eyes, and tell her she's beautiful. She also dreams of getting her...

A young boy is frightened by how busy and noisy the city is when he goes there to visit his Nana, but she makes him a fancy red cape that keeps him from being scared as she shows him how wonderful a place it is.

Eleven-year-old Kaden, a boy who lives with his grandmother outside the small town of Promise, learns, just when he is starting middle school, that the father he has never known was released from prison.