great-grandmothers

Her parents' impending separation leads a gifted thirteen-year-old musician to discover the story of her greatgrandmother's immigration to America from a Jewish shtetl in Poland.

Four-year-old Tom?s enjoys his relationship with both his grandmother and great-grandmother, but eventually learns to face their inevitable death.

Seven-year-old Christine spends Christmas Eve helping her great-grandmother decorate her tree and sharing the story of a very special ornament that came from Russia many years before.

Fifteen-year-old Anna feels that she is responsible for the death of her best friend in a drunk driving accident, but with the help of dreams that reveal memories from her great-grandmother's past, she begins to work through her grief.

The inhabitants of Green Knowe become involved with black magic when a modern-day witch attempts to find books of witchcraft supposedly hidden in the old house by a mad seventeenth-century alchemist.

A small boy enjoys his relationship with his grandmother and his great-grandmother, but he learns to face their inevitable death.

At the county fair, ten-year-olds Malcolm and Dandy face a real ghost in the Screaming Mansion, while at home, Malcolm's sister Cocoa's attempt to become Fair Queen has the family in turmoil.

Ten-year-old Malcolm and his best friend Dandy, armed with a ghost detector ordered from "Beyond Belief" magazine, make a late-night trip to a haunted house, despite the warnings of Malcolm's great-grandmother.

When Naomi's absent mother resurfaces to claim her, Naomi runs away to Mexico with her great-grandmother and younger brother in search of her father.

Life at Avocado Acres Trailer Rancho in California is happy for Naomi, her little brother Owen, and their grandmother until their mother reappears after seven years.