family

Chronicles the major changes in family life throughout the twentieth century, concentrating on women in the workplace, ways of cooking, eating, and entertaining, daily activities, parenting and children, urban vs. suburban homes, and ethnic and minority families.

With a father who is a drunk and a passive mother, Kit has enough trouble dealing with her life without having to move to a bigger city when her father loses his job, but a boy she meets there named Elliot helps her adapt to the new place.

A family shattered by the abduction of an older son endures the fallout of four nightmarish years when he is found alive and returned to them badly traumatized.

Fourteen-year-old Jess' beliefs falter when her evangelical father packs up the family, including her secretly pregnant older sister and her long-suffering mother, to travel across the country and save souls ahead of the anticipated end of the world.

Mike and his friends embark on a wild journey as a night of skateboarding turns into a trek across the U.S.-Mexico border, where they encounter a violent gang and find their friendship and courage tested.

Lola Hart is an ordinary girl living a comfortable life in near-future Manhattan, until her family's life falls apart under the pressures of a city and country that is spinning out of control. Faced with the pressures of surviving any way she can, and surrounded by the new language and violence of the streets, Lola metamorphoses into a street-wise hustler.