old age

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old age

Constanze Mozart

an unimportant woman
1997
Fifty years after the death of her husband, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Constanze reflects on her long life.

La abuelita de arriba y la abuelita de abajo

1998
Four-year-old Tom?s enjoys his relationship with both his grandmother and great-grandmother, but eventually learns to face their inevitable death.

A ladder to the stars

2006
A young girl's wish to dance with a star is granted in her old age.

A tour of evil

2005
The lives of an eleven-year-old runaway foster child, an old man with a tragic past, and a worried foster mother intertwine as they rescue a group of kidnapped children from an evil tour guide at a cathedral in Northern France.

Fitness over fifty

an exercise guide from the National Institute on Aging
2006

Saving Dove

2003
Things are difficult for weleve-year-old Jan and her mother after her father's death, and when it turns out that her beloved horse needs anoperation, Jan reluctantly gets money from an elderly woman whom she has befriended.

Flicka, Ricka, Dicka, and their new friend

1995
Three little Swedish sisters befriend a lonely old geography teacher when they go to apologize for leaving a big snowball in the middle of his walk.

Digging to China

1989
Hearing her friend Marj, the elderly lady next door, speak wistfully of China, Alexis digs a hole all the way through the earth to that exotic country and brings back a postcard for Marj's birthday.

The letters

2003
In Japan, the death of her former landlady triggers a young woman's memories about her father's death when she was six years old, and the special way the old lady helped her to cope with the loss.

Digby

1998
Learning about the family dog, Digby, helps a young child understand aging.

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