Omi, a nonconformist grandmother who lives on a sailboat, cuts her own hair, and collects dead bugs, is sure to be an embarrassment at grandparents' day, or so her grandson thinks, but Omi just may surprise everyone.
There's much to learn about life and love, when thirteen-year-old Sally's parents are getting a divorce and she is sent to the community of Coldwater, Arkansas to her grandparents.
During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.
After a family tragedy orphans her, Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., moves into her grandmother's mostly black community in the 1980s, where she must swallow her grief and confront her identity as a biracial woman.
Olivia Harker's determination to find out who is killing wolves on her Kentucky property in 1938 unwittingly brings danger to her impoverished community as well as her grandson Will'm.
A young boy takes a ride on the matatu bus with his grandfather for his fifth birthday, and along the way his grandfather tells him the story of why dogs chase the bus, goats run from it, and sheep pay no attention to it.
Kenya has a very special show and tell for school when her grandmother tells her the story of Kente cloth and makes her a beautiful dress from the cloth.
