When Kendra and Seth go to stay at their grandparents' estate, they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and that a battle between good and evil is looming.

When Grampa is bitten by a rival soccer team's mascot and turns into a were-yote, members of the Ladies Quilting League offer to destroy him, but Hans Lotion has a solution that could be less deadly.

Since her father's death, Cat has taken care of her brother, Chicken, for their hardworking mother but while spending time with grandparents they never knew, Cat has the chance to be a child again.

While Grampa and Wiley try to capture the legendary Moby Fizz, the "biggest, bloated, deformed bass" in Lake Putrid, they encounter many surprises.

Haunted by his negative reaction to the Christmas sweater that his mother made for him when he was twelve--instead of getting the bike he had hoped for--Eddie grows up searching through childhood memories, and finds guidance from his neighbor Russell, to finally understand the full value of the gift he so quickly tossed aside.

When a carton of eggnog turns into a deadly menace that devours everything in its path, Wiley and Grampa must find a way to save their beloved Gingham County from certain doom and turn to Roberto Claus, Santa's second cousin, for help.

Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.

When her blind dog slips his collar, twelve-year old Lily meets Salma Santiago, a young Hispanic girl whose migrant family are in Maine for the blueberry-picking season, and, based partly on their mutual love of dogs, the two forge a friendship while painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather--but as the Blueberry Queen pageant approaches Lily and Selma are confronted with some of the hard truths of prejudice and migrant life.

"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. 'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon.' This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two...

Spot celebrates Thanksgiving with his grandparents.