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9) My grandpa
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
An elderly grandfather bear and his adoring grandson share a special relationship.
10) Grace
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
An old man reminisces about his first love, a young runaway who taught him more about life than anyone had before or since.
13) Hanukkah bear
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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.
15) Verdi
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A young python does not want to grow slow and boring like the older snakes he sees in the tropical jungle where he lives. Young Verdi doesn't want to grow up big and green. He likes his bright yellow skin and sporty stripes. Besides, all the green snakes he meets are lazy, boring, and rude. When Verdi finds a pale green stripe stretching along his whole body, he tries every trick he can think of to get rid of it--and ends up in a heap of trouble....
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Determined to leave a mark on the world even though they are in the hospital and their days are dwindling, unlikely friends, seventeen-year-old Lenni and eighty-three-year-old Margot, devise a plan to create one hundred paintings showcasing the stories of the century they have lived.
17) Violeta: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century"--
18) Think of me
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A "sweeping historical novel about one couple's journey through war, love, and loss, and how the people we love never really leave us"--
Author
Series
Sophie Hartley books volume 1
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A suggestion from her mother leads Sophie to befriend the new girl at school and an elderly, grouchy woman, and helps her overcome the feeling that she is not good at anything.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Ptolemy Grey is a 91-year-old man, suffering from dementia and living as a recluse in his Los Angeles apartment. Then Robyn Small, a 17-year-old family friend, appears and helps clean up his apartment and straighten out his life. A reinvigorated Ptolemy volunteers for an experimental medical program that restores his mind, and he uses his last days--shortened now by the medical experiment--to delve into the mystery of the recent drive-by shooting...
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