When Someone You Love Has Alzheimer's Disease

Cry Uncle!
by Mary Jane Auch
An elderly uncle given to occasional bouts of confusion causes the Andersons to wonder if they are able to take care of him or if he should be sent to a nursing home.

Singing With Mama Lou
by Linda Jacobs Altman
Nine-year-old Tamika uses photographs, school yearbooks, movie ticket stubs, and other mementos to try to restore the memory of her grandmother, who has Alzheimer's disease.

Sunshine Home
by Eve Bunting
When he and his parents visit his grandmother in the nursing home where she is recovering from a broken hip, everyone pretends to be happy until Tim helps them express their true feeling.

Loop the Loop
by Barbara Dugan
A young girl and an old woman form a friendship that lasts even after the woman enters a nursing home.

Alzheimer's Disease
by Susan Dudley Gold
Ted Dudley was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1990.  His seventeen-year-old grandson says Alzheimer's has made his grandfather "a shell of a person he once was."  The author wonderfully tells the story of her father who suffered from the disease while giving an easy-to-read explanation of Alzheimer's disease.

Fireflies, Peach Pies, & Lullabies
by Virginia L. Kroll
When Francie's Great-Granny Annabel dies of Alzheimer's disease, Francie finds a way to help people remember the real person rather than the shell she had become as the disease ran its course.

Night of Fear
by Peg Kehret
Thirteen-year-old T.J. and his grandmother, who has Alzheimer's disease, find their lives in danger when they discover a disturbed arsonist hiding in a barn.

Love You Forever
by Robert Munsch
"I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living my baby you'll be," was the song sung to the little boy in the story, even when he was two and flushed his mother's watch down the toilet, even when he was nine and never wanted to take a bath, even when he was a teen and wore strange clothes and listened to strange music, even when he was grown up and lived across town.  So when his mother was old and sick, the man returned her love, and he sung a similar song for her, and when she died he picked up his own baby and sung his mother's song of love to that child.  A beautiful, touching book everyone of all ages should read.

The Graduation of Jake Moon
by Barbara Park
Fourteen-year-old Jake recalls how he has spent the last four years of his life watching his grandfather descend slowly but surely in to the horrors of Alzheimer's disease.

Sachiko Means Happiness
by Kimiko Sakai
Although at first five-year-old Sachiko is upset when her grandmother no longer recognizes her, she grows to understand that they can still be happy together.

If I Forget, You Remember
by Carol Lynch Williams
Twelve-year-old Elyse's plan to write an award-winning novel during the summer is interrupted when her grandmother, who has Alzheimer's disease, moves in with her family.

Figuring Out Frances
by Gina Willner-Pardo
Ten-year-old Abigail's neighbor Travis, her best friend although he is at a different school, upsets her when he transfers to her school, ignores her, and laughs at her grandmother's Alzheimer's along with his new friends.