old age

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Bad business

Lindy takes financial advantage of her elderly employer's mistake and pays for a dream trip to the Arctic. However, when she tells someone what she has done, she begins paying for her deed.

From Norvelt to nowhere

After an explosion, a new crime by an old murderer, and the sad passing of the founder of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack accompanies his slightly mental elderly mentor, Miss Volker, on a cross-country run as she pursues the oddest of outlaws.

Valentine queen

2014
Kylie Jean's grandparents fiftieth wedding anniversary is on Valentine's Day, and the whole family is planning a surprise party--but Kylie also wants her class to spread valentine cheer to Oak Manor, the local assisted living facility.

Mr. Putter & Tabby drop the ball

Mr. Putter and his cat Tabby take time off from napping to play on the Yankee Doodle Dandies baseball team.

If you find this

2015
When the grandfather he never k is released from prison suffering from dementia, eleven-year-old Nicholas, a mathematical and musical genius, tries to save the family's home by helping search for heirlooms Grandpa claims to have buried.

What I thought was true

2015
"17-year-old Gwen Castle is a working-class girl determined to escape her small island town, but when rich-kid Cass Somers, with whom she has a complicated romantic history, shows up, she's forced to reassess her feelings about her loving, complex family, her lifelong best friends, her wealthy employer, the place she lives, and the boy she can't admit she loves"--Provided by publisher.

Forget me not

2014
"Young Julia comes to terms with the changes in her beloved grandmother, whose Alzheimer's disease makes it hard for her to remember people and things"--Provided by publisher.

Pinky and Rex and the mean old witch

2006
Pinky, Rex, and Amanda plot revenge on the bad-tempered old woman who lives across the street, until Pinky realizes that she is lonely and needs new friends.

Rules of the road

2003
Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father.

Yessir, I've been here a long time

the faces and words of Americans who have lived a century
1975

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