Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Nine-year-old Austin visits his grandmother the summer after his grandfather dies and together they try to come to terms with their loss.

George is alone in the house with Grandma. The most horrid, grizzly old grunion of a grandma ever. She needs something stronger than her usual medicine to cure her grouchiness. A special grandma medicine, a remedy for everything. And George knows just what to put into it. Grandma's in for the surprise of her life—and so is George, when he sees the results of his mixture!

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.

YA-YAS IN BLOOM reveals the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s and roars with all the raw power of Vivi Abbott Walker's 1962 T-Bird through sixty years of marriage, child-raising, and hair-raising family secrets.y.

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.

During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness.

"A young boy steps out of a thunderstorm and onto a strange bus. Like a flash of lightning, his long-gone grandmother suddenly appears on the bus too! Is she there to offer him a gift . . . or a warning? The boy is in for a shocking surprise. " --Amazon.

A rhyming celebration of grandmothers, including those who are mischievous ticklers, those who once wore bell bottoms and marched for equal rights, and those who are nearly family and just as loving. Includes a list of names for grandmothers in different languages.

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.