great-grandmothers

Rosemary Rita's magical hourglass takes her to the Paris Exposition of 1889, where she meets her great-great-grandmother Gracie, also aged ten, and together with a friend they set out to catch the boy who steals Gracie's locket.

Rosie and Great-grandmother spend a quiet time together as Great-grandmother tells a story from her childhood in the old country.

Twelve-year-old Lizzie searches for memories of her mother while spending a summer with her great-grandmother among the Amish in Pearly Gates, Pennsylvania.

When a child visits her great-grandmother who speaks to her in an unfamiliar language, she makes up a story in her own head to fit her great-grandmother's gestures.

Lively letters between a self-centered young girl and her wise great-grandmother reveal generational differences and a deep affection for each other.

An account of twelve-year-old Angela's visit to help take care of her great-grandmother alternates with the story of the old woman's life.

When he and his sister Lou are sent to spend the summer with their blind great-grandmother in the tiny town of Dolliver, Hollis encounters some dark family secrets and vows to uncover them.

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.

Tolly comes to live with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century.

After the death of her Indian great-grandmother, Jamie remembers the many special things the old woman shared with her about the natural world.