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Four little old men

a (mostly) true tale from a small Cajun town
2005
In a small town on the Mississippi River, four men too old to work anymore begin playing cards together, and as the game goes on over months and years, they continually improve the place where they play.

Pictures of Hollis Woods

A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.
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The remember balloons

"James has a bunch of balloons, each of which holds a special memory, but as his grandfather ages and loses his own balloons, James discovers that he is gaining new ones"--Provided by publisher.
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Honey, baby, sweetheart

In the summer of her junior year, sixteen-year-old Ruby McQueen and her mother, both nursing broken hearts, set out on a journey to reunite an elderly woman with her long-lost love, and in the process, learn many things about "the real ties that bind" people to one another.

Hanukkah bear

On the first night of Hanukkah, Old Bear wanders into Bubba Brayna's house and receives a delicious helping of potato latkes when she mistakes him for the rabbi. Includes a recipe for latkes.

The half-true lies of Cricket Cohen

In trouble at home and school again for turning in a not-quite honest memoir, eleven-year-old Cricket and her equally fanciful grandmother, Dodo, set out on a crosstown Manhattan adventure.
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In the arms of elders

a parable of wise leadership and community building
2006
A story about a thriving community of elderly people on the fictional island of Kallimos that provides the vision behind the author's real-life efforts in the Eden Alternative and Green House programs to replace medical-model nursing homes with healing communities.
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Walking with Miss Millie

2017
After moving with her mother and deaf brother to Grandma's small Georgia town in the 1960s, Alice copes with feelings of isolation by befriending the elderly black woman who lives next door.
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Kasey & Ivy

2018
"Twelve-year-old Kasey spends a month in the geriatric ward of her local hospital and strikes up some unusual friendships"--.
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The brilliant fall of Gianna Z

2017
Gianna has less than one week to complete her leaf project if she wants to compete in the upcoming cross-country sectionals, but issues like procrastination, disorganization--and her grandmother's declining health--seem destined to keep her from finishing.
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