Left by their mother with their grandparents, two children feel as if their past has been erased until Grandfather finds a way to restore it to them.

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 sixteen-year-old boy arranges a housesitting job for the summer, but he starts acting strangely after his family moves in, and his sister begins to suspect they are not supposed to be there.

As her irritating family prepares to celebrate her grandfather's eightieth birthday, sixteen-year-old Lily yearns for just one whole perfect day together.

Wiley, Grampa, and the owner of Santa's Happytown Shanty Village try to contain rancid eggnog that is trying to take over Gingham County.

During a scarlet fever epidemic one winter in Michigan, a Jewish family helps make Christmas special for their sick neighbors by making their own Hanukkah miracle.

While Grampa and Wiley try to capture the legendary Moby Fizz, the "biggest, bloated, deformed bass" in Lake Putrid, they encounter many surprises, including the disappearance of Grampa's stuffed Froggy and a very unusual hula dance.

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.

After the death of their parents, thirteen-year-old Lisette and her nine-year-old brother Riley go to live with their grandparents in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia where, along with facing their losses, they experience a series of adventures that bring new dimensions to their lives.

While enjoying a day at a water park, Wiley and his grandpa discover that the robot sharks and half human, half crawdad creatures have attacked and they must find a missing boy.