Nai-nai tells her granddaughters the story of her outing, as a seven-year-old girl in China, to see the Moon Lady and be granted a secret wish.

Jeremy, who longs to have the black high tops that everyone at school seems to have but his grandmother cannot afford, is excited when he sees them for sale in a thrift shop and decides to buy them even though they are the wrong size.

In 1911, when orphaned ten-year-old Inge comes to live with her stern grandmother in a remote island village in Bornholm, Denmark, she ends up changing the climate of the town, bringing joy and laughter to her grandmother's life and finding a new family for herself to help assuage her grief over losing her mother.

Pip's two grandmothers, who cannot agree on anything, take over coaching her baseball team and create chaos.

As he builds a snowbunny, Liplap feels something is missing and wishes his grandmother who recently died was with him. A wonderful sensitive story about children's feeling the sadness and loss after the death of a loved one as seen through the little rabbit, Liplap's eyes.

Young Henry and his dog, Mudge, are going to Grandmother's house in the country. Henry hopes that his grandmother likes Mudge. He is worried that his huge, gentle friend will have to sleep outside. Although it is surrounded by fields, Grandmother's house is very small. It is filled with lots of things that can fall over or break. There's no room for Mudge. What will happen to Henry's dog out in the night? Cynthia Rylant has won many honors, including...

Claudia's participation in the Baby-sitters Club is curtailed when Grandmother Mimi suffers a stroke and Claudia finds herself "Mimi-sitting" and fighting more frequently with her sister.

A tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book, a beautiful volume of fairy tales. She is taken in by the dockmaster and his wife and raised as their own. On her twenty-first birthday they tell her the truth, and with her sense of self shattered and with very little to go on, "Nell" sets out on a journey to England to try to...

A small boy enjoys his relationship with his grandmother and his great-grandmother, but he learns to face their inevitable death.

Thirteen-year-old Sammy's penchant for speaking her mind gets her in trouble when she involves herself in the investigation of a robbery at the "seedy" hotel across the street from the seniors' building where she is living with her grandmother.