Wasatch County Library

Mr. Putter and his cat Tabby take time off from napping to play on the Yankee Doodle Dandies baseball team.

An old woman who has outlived all her friends is reluctant to become too attached to the stray dog that visits her each day.

Although he enjoys some aspects of his retirement, eight-year-old Brian gains a new perspective on his job of being a child after spending time in Florida's Happy Sunset Retirement Community.

A small boy tries to discover the meaning of "memory" so he can restore that of an elderly friend.

After Madeline Finn trains her dog Star to pass the test to become a therapy dog, she and Star visit Walker Oaks, a retirement community, and Madline meets an sad elderly man in a wheelchair and thinks of what she and Star can do to help him.

An old man reminisces about his first love, a young runaway who taught him more about life than anyone had before or since.

Friends Snow Flower and Lily find solace in their bond as they face isolation, arranged marriages, loss, and motherhood in nineteenth-century China.

Eric wants to find out about the old man who has moved in next door, so he and the other Cul-de-sac Kids decide to pay him a Christmas visit.

"An extraordinary novel, a poetic writer, and a story that moved me to tears." —New York Times John Boyne, bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
"I'm here to remember–all that I have been and all that I will never be again."
If you had to pick five people to sum up your life, who would they be? If you were to raise a glass to each of them, what would you say? And what would you learn

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In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.