Grandmothers

Hit the Road

Sixteen-year-old Brittany acts as chauffeur for her grandmother and three other eighty-plus-year-old women going to what is supposedly their college reunion, on a long drive that involves lies, theft,

Automobile travel, fiction, Friendship, Grandmothers, Kidnapping

Tangled Threads

Pegi Deitz Shea

After ten years in a refugee camp in Thailand, thirteen-year-old Mai Yang travels to Rhode Island, where her Americanized cousins introduce her to pizza, shopping, and beer, while her grandmother keep

Embroidery, fiction, Grandmothers, Hmong (Asian people), Hmong Americans

The Probable Future

Alice Hoffman

Stella Sparrow, the latest in a long history of Sparrow women to have special gifts, discovers on her thirteenth birthday that she can see the future, an ability that has both positive and negative ef

Clairvoyants, Domestic fiction, fiction, Grandmothers, Homicide

Dicey's Song

Cynthia Voigt

Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.

Family life, fiction, Grandmothers, Siblings

City of the Beasts

Isabel Allende

When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert d

Adventure fiction, Amazon River Valley, fiction, Grandmothers, Native Americans

Postcards From No Man's Land

Aidan Chambers

Alternates between two stories--comtemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her

1939-1945, 1940-1945, German occupation, Assisted suicide, Coming of age, fiction

A Long Way From Chicago

Richard Peck

A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

Country life, fiction, Grandmothers, Great Depression, 1929-1939, Illinois

A Year Down Yonder

Richard Peck

During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.

Country life, fiction, Grandmothers, Illinois

My Louisiana Sky

Kimberly Willis Holt

Wanting nothing more than to leave her mentally disabled mother, slow father, strict grandmother, and mean classmates behind, Tiger Ann goes to Aunt Dorie Kay's for the summer, and while there, begins

fiction, Friendship, Grandmothers, Mentally handicapped, Parent and child