family life

Captures the warmth, humor--and squabbles--of three spunky sisters.

In Acton, Oregon, sisters Alex, Stevie, and Joey take turns telling about their lives, from the school musical to their obsession with "Little Women.".

Piper and the Gypsy Club try to earn money to buy a clubhouse.

In 1881 Amherst, Massachusetts, six-year-old Gilbert finds it both challenging and wonderful to spend time with his aunt, the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, who lives next door.

A family works together to buy, peel, cook, and stir apples for the homemade applesauce they make every year.

As her 13th birthday nears, JoEllen decides to unite her two separate lives--one as Joey, who enjoys weekends with her father, and another as Ellen, who lives with her mother in Cincinnati near school and friends.

Ten-year-old Naimi excels at painting, but to help her poor family financially she would have to be a boy--or disguise herself as one.

Nine-year-old Julia learns about facing fear as she walks her dog in their Minneapolis neighborhood one summer.

Zoe's sixth-grade year at a Brooklyn school for gifted students is marked by changing relationships with her fellow students and teachers, recognition of her talent for cryptography, and a greater awareness of her passion.

Ignatius "Brother" Alderman, nearly twelve, promises to help his grandparents keep the family's Oregon ranch the same while his brothers are away and his father is deployed to Iraq, but as he comes to accept the inevitability of change, he also sees the man he is meant to be.