family life

Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.

Alice experiences the joys and embarrassments of seventh grade while advising her father and older brother on their love lives.

Follows a family's emigration by prairie schooner from the East, across the plains to Kansas.

Spinky believes his family does not love him or understand him and nothing they say will convince him otherwise.

The relatives come to visit from Virginia and everyone has a wonderful time.

Each member of the Mouse family wants to watch something different on television, but they discover a solution to their problem one night when the television does not work.

On the day before Christmas, Sofie makes her big debut serving customers in her family's busy Broadway Bakery.

Using scraps cut from the family's old clothing, Tanya helps her grandmother and mother make a beautiful quilt that tells the story of her family's life.

Beginning with her grandfather's boyhood in Italy, a young girl describes his arrival in the United States and the life he lived with her grandmother and their children and grandchildren.

Carl the rottweiler and the toddler in his care glue items in a scrapbook.