In this contemporary folktale set in ancient Japan, a young girl climbs a long silk strand hanging from heaven and discovers her grandmother waiting for her.
Raised by her eccentric grandmother Poll after the death of her father and disappearance of her mother, Katherine Millar finds her sheltered life forever altered by a package that arrives on the eve of her eighteenth birthday.
Madame Croissant opens a bakery and must fill the order for five hundred cupcakes for the Mayor, but with her granddaughter Daphne's "help" they may be in trouble, will Mister Dash, Madame Croissant's well-mannered dog, be able to save the day?.
After her parents separate, Blessing's mother moves with her and her brother Ezikiel to live in a village in the Niger Delta, where Blessing gradually adjusts, but Ezikiel soon leads a dangerous life as a boy soldier.
Old Bob gets a teddy bear for his birthday because he never had one as a child, but his grandaughter, thinking the bear deserves better than to be stuck between dusty books, wants to take him home.
growing up in the shadow of my grandparents, Franklin and Eleanor
Roosevelt, Curtis
2008
Offers an intimate portrait of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt as experienced by their grandson, who recounts what it was like to come of age under constant media attention and public scrutiny in their formidable shadows.
Little Tree is an 8-year-old Cherokee boy, who, during the time of the depression, loses his parents and goes to live with his mountain dwelling grandparents and learn the wisdom of the Cherokee way of life.