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When Angel's self-absorbed mother leaves her and her younger brother with their poor great-grandmother, the eleven-year-old girl worries not only about her mother and brother, her imprisoned father, the frail old woman, but also about a mysterious man who begins sharing with her the wonder of the stars.

Presents the different ways grandmothers show their grandchildren love, from offering advice and babysitting to making things and giving lots of kisses.

A little girl provides instructions for properly babysitting one's grandmother, such as taking trips to the park and singing duets.

Jason takes advantage of his parents' absence to sneak forbidden chocolates behind his babysitting grandmother's back, but a Bible verse and a talk with God help him understand the importance of good behavior.

"Sometimes, the answers you've spent years searching for are found in a single afternoon's conversation. At thirty-two, Leah Anderson is experiencing an identity crisis. Feeling powerless and unsure where her marriage, career, or friendships stand, she seeks solace from her Grandma Maddie, fully expecting to be placated with the usual array of biblical advice, which Gram, now in her nineties, is known for. Instead, she discovers that she doesn't know...

When Grandmother Pig comes for a visit, Oliver and Amanda learn just how much fun it is to have a grandmother in the house.

While preparing for a visit to her grandmother, a young girl notices that, like the flowers in Grammie's garden, people who are different from one another also share similarities and it's okay to like them all the same.

Charity has chicken pox, there's a terrible snowstorm outside, and it looks like the Chatfields will have to spend Thanksgiving without Nana and her wonderful roast turkey, stuffing, and cranberries.

"After Andrei Kaplan returns to Moscow to care for his ailing grandmother, he becomes entangled with a group of leftists and is forced to come to terms with the Russian society he was born into and the American one he has enjoyed since he was a kid"-- Provided by publisher.

When the daughter of a young single mother runs away at sixteen, she and the child's grandmother fears the worst. However two years later the child returns, a mess and a shell of her former self. She has been stuck in a religious cult for two years, and has been brainwashed into thinking that she is not worthy of God's love. After an argument with her mother she runs off again, and it is up to her and the child's grandmother to find her daughter once...