Intergenerational Relationships in Children's Fiction

Gran You've Got Mail by Jo Hoestlandt

• Pub Date: 2006
• Grades 3-6 interest
• Translated from the French 
• Annabelle starts writing letters to her great-grandmother to practice her typing and the two get to be friends.

Vive La Paris by Esme Raji Codell

• Paris must take paino lessons from Mrs. Rosen, an older Jewish woman.

Welcome Home or Someplace Like it by Charlotte Agell 

Stonebird by Mike Rivell

Year of the Garden by Andrea Cheng

• Pub Date: 2017
• Grades 2-4 Interest 
• Diversity: Chinese-American characters 
• Anna and her family have a friendship with an elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd.

How to Avoid Extinction by Paul Acampora

• Pub date: 2016
• Grades 5-8 interest
• See also: Finding Yourself through Travel 

Far From Fair by Elana K. Arnold

• Pub Date: 2016
• Grades 5-8 Interest
• See also: Moving/New Kid 

Best Man by Richard Peck

• Pub Date: 2016
• Grades 5-8 interest 

Blooming at the Texas Sunrise Motel by Kimberly Willis Holt

• Pub Date: 2017
• Grades 4-7 interest
• See also: Gardens/Farms 

Catching a Storyfish by Janice Harrington

• Pub Date: 2016
• Grades 4-7 interest
• Diversity:  African-American protagonist
• See also: Moving/New Kid, In Verse

As Brave as You by Jason Reynolds

• Pub Date: 2016
• Grades 5-8 interest
• Diversity: African-American characters
• See also: Guilt, Forbidden Places, Divorce 
• I wrote about it: Author Spotlight: Jason Reynolds 

Hour of the Bees by Lindsay Eagar

• Pub Date: 2016
• Grades 5-8 interest
• Diversity: Latino characters

Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond by Brenda Woods

• Pub Date: 2014
• Grades 4-6 interest
• Diversity: Biracial protagonist 

The Secret Life of Lincoln Jones by Wendelin Van Draanen

• Pub Date: 2016
• Grades 4-6 interest
• See also: Moving/NewKid, Writers
• Lincoln spends a lot of time at the nursing home where his mom works. 

Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand

• Pub Date: 2016
• Grades 4-7 interest
• See also: Summer vacation, Only Children, Divorce, Secrets, Writers 
• Finlay is sent to her estranged grandparents house for the summer where she meets all sorts of family she never knew. 

Three Bird Summer by Sara St. Antoine

• Pub Date: 2014
• Grades 5-8 interest
• See also: Summer Vacation 
• Adam spends in the summer with his grandma at the lake cabin. 

A Perfect Place by Teresa Harris

• Pub Date: 2014
• Grades 5-7 interest 
• I wrote about it: A Place to Call Home

The Secret Hum of a Daisy by Tracy Holczer

• Pub Date: 2014
• Grades 5-8 interest 
• I wrote about it: A Place to Call Home 
• After Grace's mother dies, she is sent to live with her grandmother. 

Book of One Hundred Truths by Julie Schumacher

• Pub Date: 2006
• Grades 5-7 interest
• See also in Children's: Summer 
• See also in Teen: Extended Family, On Vacation 
• Thea is a liar, and she is hiding something. 

Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess

• Pub Date: 2017
• Grades 4-7 interest
• See also: In verse, Gardens 
• Macy gets to know her elderly neighbor when she helps her pack up her books. 

Until Tomorrow, Mr. Marsworth by Sheila O'Connor

• Pub Date: 2018
• Grades 4-6 interest
• See also: Summer Vacation 
• Reenie Kelly writes to the elderly Mr. Marsworth about the war in Vietnam and her family issues. 

Vacation by Blexbloex

• Pub Date: 2018
• Grades 3-5 interest
• See also: Summer Vacation
• A little girl spending the summer with her grandfather is jealous of the elephant her grandfather keeps as a pet.