Since her father's death, Cat has taken care of her brother, Chicken, for their hardworking mother but while spending time with grandparents they never knew, Cat has the chance to be a child again.
At her grandparents' North Carolina mountain home during the summer of 1963, grief-stricken after the death of her newborn sister and isolated by her mother's deepening depression, eleven-year-old Annie Winters finds comfort holding an oblong stone she calls her "rock baby" and befriends a reclusive mountain woman with a devastating secret.
When Kendra and Seth go to stay at their grandparents' estate, they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and that a battle between good and evil is looming.
After witnessing a murder by one of Chicago's toughest gangs, LeRoy flees his native city to hide at the home of his grandfather, a shrimp fisherman, in Mississippi and must decide if he will risk his life to testify.
"When twelve-year-old Lyndie and her parents must move to her grandparents' home in small-town Tennessee in 1985, having to keep all family problems private only adds to their problems"--Provided by publisher.
Having two sets of grandparents is turning out to be very good for me. The Wrinklies are keen on giving presents AND they're planning a family outing which is going to be EPIC! Even Delia wants to come. (I can always ignore her.
While staying with his grandparents in Castle-on-the-Hudson, Charlie stumbles upon a mystery but must learn American Sign Language to keep up with Frog, a deaf girl who wants to help solve it.
Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.
While spending the summer with his extended family in New Jersey, Derek finds a team he can play baseball with and earns money to take his best friend to a Yankees game.
