family

Amanda Pig and her family and friends try to find different ways to beat the heat.

Twelve-year-old Mitch, spending the summer with his grandparents at Bird Lake after his parents' separation, becomes friends with ten-year-old Spencer, who has returned with his family to the lake where his little brother drowned years earlier, and as the boys spend time together and their friendship grows, each of them begins to heal.

Mrs. Large tries to take a peaceful, relaxing bath but her family has other ideas.

A young girl draws a family portrait, then makes it more accurate by adding common objects to show aspects of each member's personality, such as her father's playfulness, her mother's sweetness, and her brother's strength.

A little girl whose father disappeared mysteriously finds a gentle purple monster outside her house and sets off with her friend Jason to try to reunite it with its parents.

Amy and Dan, members of the powerful Cahill family, try to uncover the thirty-nine clues which will reveal the secrets of their lineage and find out what really happened to their parents.

After a close call with the cat who stalks the hallways, a family of wild mice, including adventurous, young Beaumont and elderly Uncle Brown, emigrates to a more mouse-friendly house down the block.

The Alden children hunt for their late grandmother's necklace that has been missing for years.

A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.

Explores in words and pictures what a family is and how families vary in makeup and life-styles.