families

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families

Lost in Spain

2000
Ted and his parents, vacationing in Europe in the summer of 1936, become caught up in the dangers and intrigues of the Spanish Civil War.

The magnificent Ambersons

1989
George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled and arrogant grandson of the founder of the Amberson family fortune, sets the wealthy society clan on the path to financial ruin in the late nineteenth century.

Absalom, Absalom!

the corrected text
1990
A Harvard freshman pieces together the strange story of a southern tragedy involving an ambitious planter who settled in Mississippi in 1833.

Thank you for Thanksgiving

2008
A young boy ponders what he is going to say while family members offer thanks for their many blessings while sitting around the dinner table on Thanksgiving Day.

The Christmas memory quilt

2007
Brynne receives a bag full of colorful fabric from her grandmother and together they sew a Christmas quilt for a special child.

An old-fashioned Thanksgiving

2005
This adaptation of the original story follows the activities of six children in nineteenth-century New England as they prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday while Mother is away caring for Grandmother.

The nose knows

2002
A boy with an amazing sense of smell becomes the "Family Nose" when his parents and siblings all come down with colds and cannot smell disgusting and dangerous odors around the house.

Justin and the best biscuits in the world

2010
Suffering in a family full of females, ten-year-old Justin feels that cleaning and keeping house are women's work until he spends time on his beloved grandfather's ranch.

Ramona and her mother

2006
Seven-year-old Ramona Quimby, feeling that she is perhaps not as loved as her younger sister, tries a number of ploys to get her mother's attention.

Tell me a story

family folklore
2013
Explains what family folklore is and how it helps people understand what family is and how they pass along their heritage.

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