Although disappointed that his grandparents will not be able to come to Thanksgiving dinner, Franklin realizes he has plenty to be thankful for.

When Barney gets chicken pox, Grandpa tells him a funny story to keep his mind off his itching.

Nancy is furious when she cannot go to her friend Bree's butterfly-themed birthday party, but her family's outing might just be extraordinary enough to make her feel better. Includes facts about butterflies.

Although she does not get to see her father very often, a girl enjoys the time she and her brothers spend with him one summer while they are visiting their grandparents' farm.

When calamity stalks every step of the preparations for the Tappletons' Thanksgiving dinner, they realize that there is more to Thanksgiving than turkey and trimmings.

A young boy enjoys a visit with his grandparents at their house in the woods, where he meets a friendly, hungry bear.

A young boy is given a sweater by his mother before she dies--a final gesture that teaches him the true meaning of love.

"Grandparents are the reassuring heroes in this story about a boy and girl who go on an overnight visit at their grandmother and grandfather's farm"--

After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.

A girl spends a very special day with her grandparents, going to the museum and the park, and ending up helping her grandfather paint a new birdhouse.