Product Description: "Part road odyssey, part coming-of-age tale, King's novel achieves the exact right balance of humor, redemption, and reconciliation." -BooklistJames King's acclaimed debut novel is a rich multigenerational saga that soars with compassion and insight into the pain and joy of family life...read more

Product Description: Will his children forgive Bill's former alcoholism and abusive behavior and reunite before Bill's mind is gone? Bill Warrington's Last Chance follows the cantankerous Bill Warrington, an elderly Korean War veteran and widower, on his quest to reconcile with his three grown children and his teenage granddaughter before he succumbs to Alzheimer's...read more

Product Description: "Buffalo Lockjaw, like its charming, bitter screw-up of a narrator, reaches finally for larger meaning, and succeeds. . . . A brazen and tender book about a city and a scene, a mother and a son, and the beauty and pain of several kinds of love...read more

Product Description: Sylvia Winters just found a job and an apartment in her hometown of Dreyerville, Michigan, but she is hesitant to return. Eight years ago, she jilted her fiancé, Joe Dixon, telling him that she was moving to Chicago because small-town living was not for her...read more

There’s nothing All Star pitcher Peter Friedman loves more than baseball. It’s his life. He breathes baseball, dreams about it, and works his tail off to be great. Most kids are nervous about starting high school, but Pete’s amazing arm is going to make his life pretty easy. When you’re the star, girls, popularity, and all-around stud status are sure to follow. But Pete’s freshman year doesn’t turn out as planned. A pitching accident over the summer ruins his arm. If he can’t play baseball, what is he supposed to do? If he isn’t the star pitcher, then who is he? Pete’s best friend and pitching partner, AJ, doesn’t believe Pete―he tells him he’ll be back to his normal self by spring training. To make matters more complicated, there’s something going on with Pete’s grampa―he’s acting weird and keeps forgetting important things, and Pete’s mother doesn’t want to talk about it. The only person Pete can confide in is Angelika, the amazingly cute girl in his photography class who might like Pete as much as he likes her…only Angie doesn’t know if she can date someone who can’t be honest with himself, or with the people he’s closest to.

There’s nothing All Star pitcher Peter Friedman loves more than baseball. It’s his life. He breathes baseball, dreams about it, and works his tail off to be great. Most kids are nervous about starting high school, but Pete’s amazing arm is going to make his life pretty easy. When you’re the star, girls, popularity, and all-around stud status are sure to follow. But Pete’s freshman year doesn’t turn out as planned. A pitching accident over the summer ruins his arm. If he can’t play baseball, what is he supposed to do? If he isn’t the star pitcher, then who is he? Pete’s best friend and pitching partner, AJ, doesn’t believe Pete—he tells him he’ll be back to his normal self by spring training. To make matters more complicated, there’s something going on with Pete’s grampa—he’s acting weird and keeps forgetting important things, and Pete’s mother doesn’t want to talk about it. The only person Pete can confide in is Angelika, the amazingly cute girl in his photography class who might like Pete as much as he likes her…only Angie doesn’t know if she can date someone who can’t be honest with himself, or with the people he’s closest to.

Product Description: There’s nothing All Star pitcher Peter Friedman loves more than baseball. It’s his life. He breathes baseball, dreams about it, and works his tail off to be great. Most kids are nervous about starting high school, but Pete’s amazing arm is going to make his life pretty easy...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Fourteen-year-old Sylvie Marchione must cope with her divorced mother's fading memory and increasingly irrational behavior, symptoms that eventually lead to a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, even though Sylvie's mother is not yet fifty

When eleven-year-old Tim's beloved grandfather develops Alzheimer's Disease, Tim tries to restore and save him by taking him out for a fishing adventure at the pond, but the outing turns into a disaster.

ENCUENTROS is a lively introductory Spanish program that teaches students to create with the language within the cultural context of day-to-day "encounters" in the Hispanic world.

Product Description: Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Father Flashes reimagines what the novel can be or do. Composed of stunning vignettes that capture the deterioration of a father’s mind and body, this novel provides poetic insight into the complex workings of a father-daughter relationship...read more

After her great-grandmother Annabel dies, Francie combats her sadness by asking relatives to record their favorite memories of Annabel, and Francie discovers that little things become the legacy of a loved one's life.

Product Description: Young readers are given an emotionally powerful yet accessible introduction to what it is like having a close family member with Alzheimer’s disease in this deeply resonant story about the relationship between a girl and her grandmother...read more

Product Description: Life hasn't been the same for Jake Moon since his grandfather, Skelly, got Alzheimer's disease. At first Jake thought, no big deal, it was just a disease that made old people forget where they put their car keys. But he was wrong...read more

Product Description: Grandpa Monty is a bit confused: he puts the chicken in the washing machine, he gets towels mixed up with napkins and gloves with socks, and he’s always forgetting his grandson’s name. Luckily, his grandson loves him very much and is willing to risk getting into a little trouble to try to help him remember...read more

Twelve-year-old Elyse's plan to write an award-winning novel during the summer is interrupted when her grandmother, who has Alzheimer's disease, moves in with the family

Jess Baines faces difficult times when her cat is run over, her best friend starts acting like a smart aleck, and her favorite neighbor, Grandpa Ernie, can no longer remember who she is

Product Description: ''How do you lose your memory?'' Ben asks his mom. ''Does it just float out your ears?'' Grandpa's brother has Alzheimer's disease, and Ben doesn't understand. What is it? Why did he get it? What can Ben do to help his grandpa try to prevent getting Alzheimer's?

Product Description: Detective Jack Lehman is a character worthy of a Clint Eastwood movie, especially when he squints and seems not to comprehend something unbelievable and the guns start blazing. Lehman is a retired detective called back to work when an anonymous phone caller tips him off to a half-million dollar heist...read more

When Gramps realizes he has Alzheimer's disease, he starts a memory box with his grandson, Zach, to keep memories of all the times they have shared