Arcadia Public Library

Witches are real, and they are very, very dangerous. They wear ordinary clothes and have ordinary jobs, living in ordinary towns all across the world -- and there's nothing they despise more than children. When an eight-year-old boy and his grandmother come face-to-face with the Grand High Witch herself, they may be the only ones who can stop the witches' latest plot to stamp out every last child in the country!

At bedtime, Grandma tells Max and Ruby three favorite stories about themselves

Pip's two grandmothers, who cannot agree on anything, take over coaching her baseball team and create chaos.

Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead.

Henry worries about what will happen to his big dog Mudge during their visit to his grandmother's house in the country.

"Pinmei, a storyteller's granddaughter, must find the Luminous Stone that Lights the Night to rescue her grandmother, who has been kidnapped by the Tiger Emperor"--

Because Old Pig knows that her time to die is near, she puts her affairs in order and takes a slow walk with Granddaughter to savor the beauty for one last time.

A humorous story of a young boy & his older sister who visit their grandmother. When their antics escalate out of control it is up to their grandmother to set things right.

A little girl's grandmother describes how the different people in her extended family waited for her to be born.

A grandmother tells the story of her eventful life in early twentieth-century Europe and her arrival in the United States after World War II.