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"Bob Comet is a retired librarian, isolated but not lonely, living out his quiet days in a mint-colored house in Oregon, surrounded by his books and small comforts. One morning, out on his daily walk, he performs an act of kindness that brings him into contact with a nearby senior center, where he soon begins volunteering. Here, as a community of peers and friends gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from...
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"Thanks to her Ye-Ye's epic scavenger hunts, thirteen-year-old Ruby Chu knows San Francisco like the back of her hand. But after his death, she feels lost, and it seems like everyone--from her best friends to her older sister--is abandoning her. After Ruby gets in major trouble at school, her parents decide she has to spend the summer at a local senior center, with her grandmother, Nai-Nai, and Nai-Nai's friends for company. When a new boy from Ruby's...
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This photostory is suitable for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) students who are learning to read. In this story, Sara volunteers in an outreach program for a senior centre. She visits seniors who are in need. Sara visits Jay on a regular basis to check on how he is doing and to provide companionship. One day, Jay mentions that he used to be an artist. Sara asks Jay to teach her how to paint. Jay finds an old paint...
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Microcosm volume 788
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Microcosm Publishing
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[2022]
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"Sometimes you have to laugh and sometimes you have to laugh, so you don't cry. When it comes to your own dad being in the Senior Center, the laughs come from an admiration of all that happens there. Dad, now ninety-nine, is the oldest man in the community. His eccentricities and intellect bring flare to trivia competitions, the serenity pool, and even the mahjong table. We'll all be old one day -- this zine helps prepare the way with love, empathy,...
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