Eleven-year-old Sophia endeavors to prevent her increasingly forgetful eighty-eight-year-old neighbor and best friend Sophie from entering assisted living, and in the process, uncovers unexpected stories of war, loss, and hope.

A young girl and her Nana hold a special bond that blooms in the surroundings of Nanas magical garden. Then one day, the girl finds many weeds in the garden. She soon discovers that her beloved Nana has Alzheimers Disease; an illness that affects an adult brain with tangles that get in the way of thoughts, kind of like how weeds get in the way of flowers. As time passes, the weeds grow thicker and her Nana declines, but the girl accepts the difficult...

Every morning is beautiful when Noah visits his Grandparents. When Grandpa and Noah wake up, they take off singing and hardly stop: walking the dog, splashing through puddles, and eating French toast with cinnamon. But one summer Grandpa seems to have forgotten how to do the things they love. Does he even know who Noah is? Grandma steps in energetically, filling in as best she can. But it is Noah who finds the way back to something he can share with...

"After his beloved grandpa's health declines and he receives a diagnosis of dementia, a grandson must navigate the changes in their relationship. Through it all, he learns that Grandpa is still Grandpa, and their bond deepens and sweetens through a shared love of ice cream. This book offers support for children and parents on their own journeys in maintaining meaningful connections with loved ones with Alzheimer's and other dementias. It gives children...

Edie Weinstein is a ninth grader at Visitation High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Edie wrote Grandpa and Lucy for a Girl Scout Silver Award Project to help more people, particularly youth, learn about dementia. She wanted to make it more enjoyable for young people to talk to their relatives or other older friends who have dementia. Because dementia can make someone's world shrink, Edie hopes Grandpa and Lucy can help some families become closer...

"A little girl helps her grandma with her memory"--

Granny has travelled all over the world, to India, Egypt, China and Peru. And she still travels - in her mind and in her stories. The grown-ups say Granny doesn't know where she is, but her granchild can't wait to go on another adventure.

Stump always has a fantastic time with his grandparents, filled with flowers, puzzles, crosswords, and endless love. But one day, Stump's grandfather starts to lose his memory--and his words, which literally fall from him. Stump tries his best to keep the lost words safe, collecting them in a special box. But Grandpa seems to forget more and more everyday, and the situation comes to a head one snowy night when Stump wakes up to find Grandpa missing....

In England, newly pregnant seventeen-year-old Hattie and her gin-drinking great-aunt Gloria, who is in the early stages of dementia, set out together on a road trip of self-discovery--Gloria to finally confront the secrets of her past before they are wiped from her memory forever and Hattie to face the hard choices that will determine her future.

Edoe Weinstein es estudiante de noveno grado en Visitation High School en Saint Paul, Minnesota. Edie escrib̤i El Abuelo y Lucy para un proyecto de Girl Scout Silver Award para ayudar a m̀s personas, especialmente j̤venes, a aprender sobre la demencia. Que̕ra que a los j̤venes les resultara m̀s agradable hablar con sus familiares u otros amigos mayores que padecen demencia. Debido a que la demencia puede hacer que el mundo de alguien se encoja,...