aging

In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live forever and children are illegal, teenaged Anna, an obedient "Surplus" training to become a house servant, discovers that her birth parents are trying to find her.

Melly and Anny Beth, participants in Project Turnabout, a scientific experiment on aging, receive injections that are supposed to make them grow younger, but when other participants die after receiving the second shot to stop the de-aging process, the two women refuse the serum and set out to find someone to care for them once they grow too young to do it themselves.

Contains a collection of articles that offers varied views on issues related to the topic of aging people around the world.

Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.

In "When I get bigger" and "When I grow up," Little Critter and his sister imagine what they will do when they are bigger or older.

The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.

Mr. Putter's love of toys is almost as strong as his affection for his cat - but are he and she too old to play with a toy airplane.

Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.

A surgeon advocates for an approach to end-of-life care that emphasizes quality of life as the desired goal, rather than extending life at the cost of increased or extended suffering.

The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.