Henry Carter Hull

To celebrate her eighth birthday, Carrie's grandmother takes her by boat to Billingsgate Island in Cape Cod, an island that is only visible during low tides.

Elle, who has just gotten through breaking up with her girlfriend when Elle's granddaughter Sage unexpectedly shows up needing $600 bucks before sundown. Temporarily broke, Grandma Elle and Sage spend the day trying to get their hands on the cash as their unannounced visits to old friends and flames end up rattling skeletons and digging up secrets.

A feisty grandmother and her family struggle to get an assortment of farm animals out of the road so the family can pass in their T-Model Ford.

Contains a novella and six short stories by Columbian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, including the title work in which fourteen-year-old Erendira, having burnt down her heartless grandmother's lavish villa, is forced into a life of prostitution in an effort to repay the old woman.

Crissy Moore, one of six children born to Selina Trevarton, a woman who was disowned by her wealthy parents for marrying a coachman, swallows her pride after the death of her mother and goes to her grandmother for help, but while the old woman appears to be offering grudging assistance, she is really plotting to break up the family forever.

"Seven-year-old Lulu adopts a hamster and must keep it a secret from her grandmother when she and her cousin Mellie spend the night"--

Jeremy, who longs to have the black high tops that everyone at school seems to have but his grandmother cannot afford, is excited when he sees them for sale in a thrift shop and decides to buy them even though they are the wrong size.

At bedtime, Grandma tells Max and Ruby three favorite stories about themselves

Ben is bored beyond belief after he is made to stay at his grandma's house. She's the boringest grandma ever: all she wants to do is to play Scrabble, and eat cabbage soup. But there are two things Ben doesn't know about his grandma. 1) She was once an international jewel thief. 2) All her life, she has been plotting to steal the Crown Jewels, and now she needs Ben's help.