Griselda Takes Flight — Joyce Magnin

Now that her morbidly obese sister, Agnes Sparrow, is comfortably dieting at the Greenbrier Nursing Home, Griselda learns to fly -- literally -- after a pilot makes an emergency landing and creates quite a ruckus in the otherwise sleepy town of Bright's Pond.

But Griselda's newfound freedom -- and her flight time with handsome pilot, Cliff -- is hampered by other happenings in town. Like the gold digger who prances around town and is supposedly engaged to Stella Kincaid's brother -- the lottery winner who is in a coma. And there's Ivy Slocum's dog, Al Capone, whose adventures continue long after they should.

When Chief of Police Mildred Blessing starts investigating the gold digger, however, things really heat up -- for Griselda and all the residents of the unique Pennsylvania hamlet called Bright's Pond!