Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the...
Old age
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Author:Cannon, JanellSummary:A young python does not want to grow slow and boring like the older snakes he sees in the tropical jungle where he lives.
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Author:Trottier, MaxineSummary:This delightful story for children ages four and up tells the story of a poor boy with a vivid imagination. The Festival of Kites will award a prize to the person with the smallest kite. Though he cannot afford a kite, Eddie Wing flies...
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Author:Cicero, Marcus TulliusSummary:On Old Age is a gentle text. It has the capacity to soothe us when we read it as much as it must have soothed Cicero to write it. It pleases because of its great good sense and lack of sentimentality; because it deals so...
- Author:Freedman, MarcSummary:
Freedman seeks to alleviate much of the hand-wringing surrounding the aging baby boomer generation. Freedman hopes that by providing guidance, training, education and support to the millions entering the 60 to 80-year-old life phase, a...
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Author:Mikaelsen, BenSummary:In 1922 Petey, who has cerebral palsy, is misdiagnosed as an idiot and institutionalized; sixty years later, still in the institution, he befriends a boy and shares with him the joy of life.
- Author:Le Guin, Ursula K.Summary:
From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts-always adroit, often acerbic-on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation. Ursula K. Le Guin has...
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Author:Rylant, CynthiaSummary:During a big snow, Mr. Putter decides to write a mystery novel, but what he ends up with is entirely different.
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Author:Rylant, CynthiaSummary:Mr. Putter is convinced to run in a senior marathon with his neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry, when he learns that second prize is a train set.
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Author:Rylant, CynthiaSummary:While enjoying autumn weather and activities, Mr. Putter, realizing how much he misses going to school, takes his cat Tabby, their adventurous neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry, and her cake-loving dog Zeke to "Show and Tell."
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Author:Rylant, CynthiaSummary:To relieve the boredom of a long, hot summer, Mr. Putter and his cat Tabby join their fun-loving neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry, and her mischievous dog Zeke on an adventurous sightseeing boat cruise.
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Author:Rylant, CynthiaSummary:Reluctantly, Mr. Putter and his cat, Tabby, agree to go ballroom dancing with Mrs. Teaberry and her dog, Zeke.
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Author:Myers, Walter DeanSummary:Teenage Reese, serving time at a juvenile detention facility, gets a lesson in making it through hard times from an unlikely friend with a harrowing past.
- Author:Grimaldi, VirginieSummary:
Juliane n'aime pas les surprises. Quand son père fantasque vient s'installer chez elle, à la suite de l'incendie de sa maison, son quotidien parfaitement huilé connaît quelques turbulences. Jean dépense sa retraite...
- Author:Baker, MatthewSummary:
Mixing mystery and adventure in the tradition of Louis Sachar, Avi, and E. L. Konigsburg, If You Find This is the story of unlikely friendships, unexpected bravery, and eleven-year-old Nicholas Funes' quest to prove his grandfather...
- Author:Friedan, BettySummary:
Struggling to hold on to the illusion of youth, Friedan wrote, we have denied the reality and evaded the new triumphs of growing older. We have seen age only as decline. In this powerful and very personal book, Betty Friedan charted her...
- Author:Levy, BeccaSummary:
Yale professor Dr. Becca Levy draws on her ground-breaking research to show how age beliefs can be improved so they benefit all aspects of the aging process, including the way genes operate and the extension of life expectancy by 7.5...
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Author:Carlstrom, Nancy WhiteSummary:When her best friend, an old lady named Miss Lilly, dies, Sara learns that the memory of a loved one never dies. Grades K-3.
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Author:Reynolds, MarilynnSummary:Frank likes everyone in the Grant Street rooming house where he lives with his mother, but old Mrs. Kazinski up in the attic is his special friend. She will be eighty years old on Sunday. Frank needs to find her the best birthday...
- Author:Pillemer, Karl A.Summary:
Pillemer interviewed more than 1,000 Americans over the age of 65 about issues like children, marriage, money, and careers, finding time and again their answers pointed to the same set of essential lessons. Here, he delivers the...
