After his grandmother moves in with them while her house is being renovated, fifteen-year-old Andy becomes a reluctant advisor on her secret love life

Grams, Her Boyfriend, My Family, and Me

Teen & Young Adult

Derby, Pat

Literature & Fiction

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

As part of a school project, Barry Wilson, an unpopular high-school freshman, visits an elderly woman whose mind is stuck in early-twentieth-century San Francisco and the woman mistakes Barry for her long-lost brother Willie

Visiting Miss Pierce

Children's Books

Some things are more precious than gold Stubborn, spirited Molly Malarky embarks on a life-altering adventure as she and her brother flee their miserable New Hampshire farm on the trail of their widower father, who abandoned them during the first months of the California gold rush. Traveling from Boston, to Panama, across the isthmus, and up the Pacific coast, they find that no part of the journey is easy. Cheats and scalawags abound, the distances are enormous, and unhealthy conditions are inescapable. And for a young woman trying to make headway alongside hundreds of desperate men -- her greedy, bad-tempered, and chauvinistic brother included -- the journey is overwhelming. In this stirring historical story, resourceful Molly is never defeated as she heads west to stake a claim that is bigger and more personal than she ever imagined.

Away to the Goldfields!

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Grams Her Boyfriend, My Family, and Me

It's mayhem in self-absorbed, fifteen-year-old Andy's house when Mom goes back to work and Dad's bossy mother moves in and takes over. But when Grams announces her plans to marry and Dad forbids her to go through with it, Andy goes out on a limb for Grams to help her find happily-ever-after.

"In this strong first novel, a teenager whose school project forces him to visit a senile woman in a convalescent home becomes wrapped up in her stories...Derby is adept at incorporating telling details of parochial school and home life, often with touches of humor. A novel that deals with hero worship and that has much to say to adolescent readers."-School Library Journal

8.3 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches hardcover edition

The lady and her tiger

Dutton

Grams, Her Boyfriend, My Family and Me

Demco Media

Book by Beagle, Peter S., Derby, Pat, Molina, Genaro

In the Presence of Elephants

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

BEAGLE, PETER S.

Molina, Genaro

Pets & Animal Care

Capra Pr

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Grams, Her Boyfriend, My Family, and Me

Visiting Miss Pierce

Away to the Goldfields!

Grams, Her Boyfriend, My Family, and Me

Visiting Miss Pierce

The lady and her tiger

Grams, Her Boyfriend, My Family and Me

In the Presence of Elephants