family life

Even though life with cerebral palsy isn't easy for twelve-year-old Sarah, she manages with the help of her loving family and several new friends.

An adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel about the joys and sorrows of Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy March, four sisters growing into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.

When she comes to live with relatives on a Texas farm, fifteen-year-old Mandy encounters the grandmother she never knew and begins to come to terms with her blindness caused by the automobile accident that killed her mother.

As their father becomes more absorbed in his work, Matthew and his sister Hannah come to terms with their mother's death in very unusual ways.

A collection of humorous poems about family life and relationships accompanied by colorful cartoon-like illustrations.

Distinctly unenthusiastic when her four-year-old niece, Ella, comes for a prolonged visit, eleven-year-old Amy finds her relationship with the small girl gradually changing her view of herself and life in general.

Two Haitian American children deal with the problems of friendship, family life, and growing up.

Celinda, the smallest member of a traveling family of puppeteers, is determined to find an important part to play when the troupe sets out to earn a living in the early days of the new United States.

Thirteen-year-old Gilda's parents are getting a divorce, and she seems to be the only one interested in keeping the family together and looking out for her younger brother and sister.

When twelve-year-old Rinko learns that a neighbor's daughter is coming from Japan to marry a stranger twice her age, she sets out to change this arrangement and gains new insights into love and adult problems.