Tuesdays With Morrie
Alexander, Lloyd. The Gawgon
and the Boy. Dutton, 2001. (Juv Fic)
In Depression-era Philadelphia, when eleven- year-old David is
too ill to attend school, he is tutored by his unique and adventurous
Aunt Annie, whose teaching combines with his imagination to greatly
enrich his life.
Bacon, Katharine. Shadow and
Light. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1987. (YA Fic)
Fifteen-year-old Eva looks forward to spending the summer on her
beloved grandmother's Vermont farm, but is devastated to learn
that her grandmother is terminally ill and wants Emma to help
her live her last months in peace and dignity.
Bauer, Joan. Hope Was Here.
Putnam, 2000. (YA Fic)
When 16-year-old Hope and her aunt move from Brooklyn to run a
small-town diner in Wisconsin, they don't expect to get caught
up in town politics and the diner owner's campaign to defeat the
corrupt mayor.
Bunting, Eve. The Happy Funeral.
Harper and Row, 1982. (Juv Fic)
A Chinese-American girl pays tribute to her grandfather as she
assists in the preparations for his funeral.
Buscaglia, Leo. A Memory for
Tino. SLACK, 1988. (Juv Fic)
A little boy wonders what it is like to have a "memory;"
his new friendship with an elderly neighbor results in a beautiful
one.
Cleaver, Vera. The Whys and
Wherefores of Littabelle Lee. Atheneum, 1973. (Juv Fic)
When adversity makes sixteen-year-old Littabelle the sole support
of her two aged grandparents, her desperate situation teaches
her about law, human nature and her future.
Clifford, Eth. The Remembering
Box. Houghton Mifflin, 1985. (Juv Fic)
Nine-year-old Joshua's weekly visits to his beloved grandmother
on the Jewish Sabbath give him an understanding of love, family
and tradition which helps him accept her death.
Clifford, Eth. The Rocking
Chair Rebellion. Houghton Mifflin, 1978. (Juv Fic)
A teenager chronicles her involvement with the residents of Maple
Ridge Home for the Aged and their revolution.
Creech, Sharon. Ruby Holler.
Harper Collins, 2002. (Juv Fic)
Thirteen-year-old twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a
terrible orphanage, but their lives change forever when a sweet
but eccentric older couple invites them on an adventure that begins
in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler.
Creech, Sharon. Walk Two Moons.
HarperCollins, 1994. (YA Fic)
13-year-old Salamanca and her eccentric grandparents travel from
Ohio to Idaho in search of Sal's mother, who left one April morning
and hasn't returned.
DeClements, Barthe. Sixth Grade
Can Really Kill You. Scholastic, 1985. (Juv Fic)
Helen fears that lack of improvement in her reading may leave
her stuck in the sixth grade forever until a good teacher recognizes
her reading problem
Fleischman. Paul. Mind's Eye.
Henry Holt, 1999. (YA Fic)
A novel in play form in which sixteen-year-old Courtney, paralyzed
in an accident, learns about the power of the mind from an elderly
blind woman who takes Courtney on an imaginary journey to Italy
using a 1910 guidebook.
Hadley, Irwin. Lilith Summer.
Feminist Press, 1979. (Juv Fic)
A twelve-year-old girl tells of her experiences during the summer
she spends as a companion to a 77-year-old woman.
Heymsfeld, Carla. Coaching
Ms. Parker. Bradbury, 1992. (Juv Fic)
Mike and his friends try to help their fourth-grade teacher learn
how to play baseball before the annual teacher-student game.
Joosse, Barbara. Anna and the
Cat Lady. Harper Collins, 1992. (Juv Fic)
Two third graders rescue a kitten and meet an eccentric elderly
woman who they later realize needs their help to survive.
Kaye, Marilyn. Real Heroes.
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993. (Juv Fic)
When his father joins other parents in demonstrating against an
HIV-positive teacher, Kevin is torn between his loyalty to his
father, whom he has always considered a hero, and his admiration
for his favorite teacher.
Konigsburg, E. L. The View
from Saturday. Atheneum, 1996. (Juv Fic and Cassette Book
Kit)
Four students, each with their own story, develop a special bond
and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who
chooses them to represent the sixth grade class in the Academic
Bowl competition.
Lasky, Kathryn. True North:
a Novel of the Underground Railroad. Blue Sky Press, 1996.
(YA Fic)
Due to the strong influence of her abolitionist grandfather, fourteen-year-old
Lucy assists a fugitive slave girl to escape.
Mathis, Sharon Bell. The Hundred
Penny Box. Viking, 1975. (Juv Fic)
Michael's love for his great-great-aunt, who lives with them,
leads him to intercede with his mother, who wants to toss out
all her old things.
Mazer, Norma Fox. After the
Rain. G. K. Hall, 1989, 1987. (YA Fic)
After discovering that her grandfather is dying, fifteen-year-old
Rachel gets to know him better and finds the experience bittersweet.
Mikaelsen, Ben. Petey.
Hyperion Books for Children, 1998. (Juv Fic)
In 1922, Petey, who has cerebral palsy, is misdiagnosed as mentally
retarded and is institutionalized; sixty years later, still in
the institution, he befriends a boy and shares with him the joy
of life.
Mosher, Richard. Zazoo.
Clarion, 2001. (YA Fic)
Amid old secrets revealed and rifts healed, a thirteen-year-old
Vietnamese orphan raised in rural France by her aging "Grand-Pierre"
learns about life, death and love.
Park, Linda Sue. A Single Shard.
Clarion, 2001. (Juv Fic)
Tree-ear, an orphan in medieval Korea, lives with Crane-man, a
lame straw weaver, under a bridge in a potters' village and longs
to learn to make the delicate celadon ceramics himself.
Peck, Richard. A Long Way from
Chicago: a Novel in Stories. Dial, 1998. (Juv Fic)
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with
his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life
grandmother.
Peck, Richard. A Year Down
Yonder. Dial, 2000. (Juv Fic)
During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent
to live with her feisty grandmother in rural Illinois and comes
to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.
Rylant, Cynthia. Missing May.
Orchard Books, 1992. (Juv Fic)
After the death of the beloved aunt who raised her, twelve-year-old
Summer and Uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search
of the strength to go on living.
Schaefer, Jack. Old Ramon.
Walker,1988. (Juv Fic)
A wise old shepherd teaches a young boy lessons about survival,
bravery, wisdom and friendship as he shows the boy how to care
for a flock of sheep in the harsh Mojave Desert.
Taylor, Theodore. The Cay.
Doubleday, 1969 (Juv Fic)
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by
a German submarine during World War II, Phillip, a teenage white
boy blinded by a blow to the head, and Timothy, an old black man,
are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island, where the boy learns
a new kind of vision, courage and love from his old companion.
Wolff, Virginia. True Believer.
Atheneum, 2001. (YA Fic)
Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old
LaVaughn learns from old and new friends and inspiring mentors
that life is what you make it.
Yumoto, Kazumi. The Friends.
Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996. (Juv Fic)
Curious about death, three sixth grade boys decide to spy on an
old man, waiting for him to die, but they end up becoming his
friends.
Zindel, Paul. A Begonia for
Miss Applebaum. Bantam, 1999. (YA Fic)
Discovering that their beloved former teacher Miss Applebaum is
terminally ill, fifteen-year-old Henry and his friend Zelda accompany
her on excursions to colorful parts of New York City and join
her in confronting death with quiet courage.
