old age

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Old Thomas and the little fairy

2000
A tiny fairy changes Old Thomas' life of anger to a life of contentment.

The last days of Ptolemy Grey

2010
After a doctor touts an experimental drug that will shorten his life, but restore his failing memory and vigor, Ptolemy Grey is spurred to action after investigating his own past, his apartment and the circumstances surrounding his grand-nephew's death in a drive-by shooting.

The dragon nanny

1991
An elderly woman who loses her job as a caretaker to the king's children ends up taking care of a dragon family.

The kidnapping of Mister Huey

1983
Afraid that his friend Mister Huey is going to be put into a home for the aged, fourteen-year-old Willy arranges to take the old man back to his boyhood home.

The golden days

1991
Convinced that his new foster parents do not really want him, eleven-year-old Cory decides to run away with his new friend, an old lady from the nearby nursing home.

The time of the cranes

1990
When her acting teacher dies and leaves her a sizable estate, Stacy investigates her death, uncovering a nursing home scandal and renewing her commitment to acting.

Otherborn

a novel
1980
A boy and his sister, separated from their boat, come ashore on a Pacific island inhabited by a race of people with a radically different conception of birth, aging, and death.

Two that were tough

1976
An old man and a wild gray chicken survive the years, each valuing his freedom above all else.

Visiting Miss Pierce

1986
Fourteen-year-old Barry, visiting an eighty-three-year-old woman in a nursing home and encouraging her to delve into her distant past, finds the project affects him deeply in his situation as an adopted child.

Jason's women

1986
Awkward and shy, sixteen-year-old Jason finds self-confidence and a new purpose in his lonely life when he answers a job ad and meets and befriends eighty-year-old Bertha Jane Fillmore and the young Vietnamese refugee girl who is staying with her.

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