family

Life is changing on Seven Bay Island for Vicky Austin, with Commander Rodney dead, her grandfather dying, and three boys who devote their attention to her.

Two stories containing episodes from the life of the Glass family, with Seymour Glass, the oldest child, as the central character.

Thirteen-year-old Ellsworth leaves his father to visit the relatives he has never met and will eventually joins forces with Jess, his distant cousin, to uncover family secrets and search for their ancestor's hidden treasure.

Although her ailing uncle creates problems for her whole family when he moves in with them, Joy survives his bungling attempts at matchmaking even as she plays the game herself.

In the late 1800s in Kentucky, Amie McBee and her four sisters both fear and torment the reclusive and seemingly sinister Mr. Tominski, but their father continues to provide for his needs.

Ramona Quimby expects fourth grade to be the best year of her life, and although things do not go just as she had hoped, she still manages to have her share of adventures.

Kidnapped seventeen years before, a man's daughter by a former marriage appears at his new home in Pittsbugh and affects the entire family.

A little girl and her family spend a summer in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

Relates episodes in seven-year-old Julian's life which include getting into trouble with his younger brother Huey, planting a garden, what he did to try to grow taller, losing a tooth, and finding a new friend.

Brothers Simon and Jared Grace move, with their mother and sister Mallory, into the Spiderwick Estate, the former home of their great uncle Arthur Spiderwick who mysteriously disappeared long ago, and discover a world filled with elves, goblins, dwarves, trolls, and other fascinating creatures.