When her quirky grandmother goes to Hawaii for the summer, nine-year-old Ruty learns to survive on her own in Mississippi by writing letters, befriending chickens as well as the new girl in town, and finally coping with her grandfather's death.

Cozy is very close to her grandmother, Dottie, a widow in her sixties. They are both enthralled when a widower, Buck, also in his sixties, moves in next door. Buck has a very handsome grandson, Jesse. The grandchildren scheme to bring their grandparents together, and the grandparents are also colluding to bring their grandchildren together.

In small-town Michigan, twelve-year-old Zoomy and his new friend Lorrol investigate the journal found inside a mysterious box and find family secrets and a more valuable treasure, while a dangerous stranger watches and waits.

Luke and his family take their annual trip to their grandparents' lakeside cabin where they spend time fishing, camping, and hiking.

"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two...

Friends James and Eamon enjoy a wonderful week at the home of Eamon's grandparents during summer vacation.

Jodie is staying with her grandparents on their farm and sees the scarecrows "come alive!"

A little girl describes the magic kitchen window in her grandparents' home.

Just when twelve-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers.

Grandpa helps his favorite grandpup to avoid scratching his chicken pox by telling how he once had to fight off an octopus during a terrible storm.