families

A young girl recounts how she came to be part of an adoptive family.

An old woman, old man, a girl, and a boy are all eaten by a bear on their way to buy some baking soda for biscuits, but a clever squirrel, that makes its home on the mantelpiece, tricks the bear into giving up his family dinner.

Presents the letters of the alphabet, each with a color photograph and a tip for young readers on how to treasure the people they love, from "A--Adoption makes a new family," to "Z-Zany fun happens with family.".

An adaptation of Johann Wyss's novel about an imaginative family that survives and prospers after being shipwrecked on a deserted island where they live over ten years before the chance of rescue arrives.

Through a series of brief letters to his parents, Alex presents all the reasons why he should not have to share a room with his younger brother after their baby sister's arrival.

Martha ends up at the local animal shelter after losing her collar, and when her family comes to claim her, Martha helps them organize a dog show to find families for her new canine friends.

Ivy and Bean decide to be good, kind, and pure of thought in the hopes that the wild animals will befriend them, but when their plan doesn't work, they decide sometimes it's good to be a little bad.

A graphic novelization of F. Scott Fitzgerald's story that depicts the curious life of Benjamin Button, who is born an old man, much to the consternation of his father, and proceeds to age backwards, finally ending up an infant.

Vicky Fallon feels her life spinning out of control when her father loses her job, her troubled little brother is kicked out of school, her grades start to fall, and her parents start to fight, and as she struggles to hold everything together, Vicky fears she is about to lose everything.

Wealthy, seventeen-year-old Anna begins to fall in love with her classmate, Abel, a drug dealer from the wrong side of town, when she hears him tell a story to his six-year-old sister, but when his enemies begin turning up dead, Anna fears she has fallen for a murderer.