Several phenomena affecting present-day society are treated in What About Grandma? These include one-parent families as a result of divorce, communication across generations, aging, terminal illness, and death. All of these major themes are treated with understanding, good taste and without sensationalism. What About Grandma? can be recommended for reading by both girls and boys from approximately ages eleven and twelve years and upward. It can also be recommended for reading by parents or teachers to children. It can be helpful to youth faced with specific problems related to the major themes. It has the potential for placing several problems facing young people into a perspective that is rational and satisfying to the reader.