Granny was a buffer girl
Berlie Doherty
The night before Jess goes off to France for a university year abroad, her parents and grandparents gather to celebrate and share the stories of their lives.

by Jill Paton Walsh (1992)
After helping her father rescue the survivors of a shipwreck on the coast of England in 1838, Grace Darling finds her quiet life crumbling around her as she is unwillingly fashioned into a national hero.
Berlie Doherty
The night before Jess goes off to France for a university year abroad, her parents and grandparents gather to celebrate and share the stories of their lives.
Brian Eames
Twelve-year-old Kitto Quick, stranded with his stepmother, Van, a Wampanoag girl, and a baby rescued from a slave ship on the very island where Morris hid valuable spices, learns powerful secrets of his past.