George's Marvelous Medicine

An eight-year-old boy left home alone with his cantankerous grandmother, who decides to brew her a secret concoction from household and farm ingredients.

George's cranky, demanding grandmother, whom he is left to look after and who ends up on the receiving end of his homemade medicine.

George's father, a farmer who becomes excited about the commercial possibilities of George's medicine once he sees what it does.

George's mother, the grandmother's daughter, who leaves George in charge of the house at the start of the story.