Great-grandma's secret makes for a wonderful surprise at the party celebrating her one hundredth birthday.

Tiny Bun and his grandmother plan, plant, and grow a vegetable garden. Includes step-by-step instructions for planting carrots, beans, cucumbers, corn, and sunflowers.

When Dora's grandma is too unwell to come to the family Christmas celebration, Dora and Boots use their Christmas presents to start a musical parade to abuela's house.

When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works.

"Paris, 1940. With the city occupied by the Nazis, three young seamstresses go about their normal lives as best they can. But all three are hiding secrets. War-scarred Mireille is fighting with the Resistance; Claire has been seduced by a German officer; and Vivienne's involvement is something she can't reveal to either of them.Two generations later, Claire's English granddaughter Harriet arrives in Paris, rootless and adrift, desperate to find a...

"When her neighbor Chester Lampi is shot and killed in his hunting blind, sixty-six-year-old widow Gertie Johnson seizes the opportunity to become a detective. Gertie is abetted (and hindered) in her investigation by her grandson Little Donny, man-hungry best friend Cora Mae, and volunteer bodyguard Kitty. It doesn't help that Chester's death has been ruled an accident by the sheriff of this backwoods community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Or that...