Longing to give up the nineteenth-century English circus life she was born into, sixteen-year-old Ellen Spangle secretly prepares to be a governess and is courted by a wealthy young man until two tragedies lead her to reevaluate her plans.
A comprehensive guide written by physicians who are also mothers, presenting information on family health including a symptoms guide, first aid tips, nutritional strategies, and a medications section.
the comprehensive guide to the whole family's health needs
Fermie, Peter
2004
Contains a comprehensive guide to family health care and includes over four hundred fifty illustrations and photographs on the symptoms, preventions, and treatments for a number of medical conditions.
Ro, already on the defensive because her mother was a lesbian, does not know quite how to react when Jodie, a beautiful new girl, arrives at school and makes it clear she wants to be more than just friends.
Examines the myths and half-truths about American families, both past and present, arguing that there is no one family form that has ever protected people from poverty or social disruption, and no traditional arrangement that provides a workable model for how family relations might be organized in the modern world.
An abridged version of the childhood adventures in the Scottish countryside of six-year-old Martha Morse, who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Twelve-year-old Adeline struggles to fit in and worries that she must give up her dream of being an opera singer when her family moves from her grandmother's comfortable cottage in Germany to a humble sod house by a railway in Saskatchewan.
Discusses the various family structures of different Native American tribes, some matrilineal and some organized into clans, and includes the reasons for such arrangements.
