family

High school teacher Tom Guthrie, abandoned by his wife and left to raise his two young sons alone, becomes involved in the lives of a pregnant, homeless teenager and two crusty, bachelor farmers.

Libby Day, still haunted by the day she witnessed the murder of her family on their farm in Kinnakee, Kansas, and twenty-five-years after testifying that her fifteen-year-old brother Ben was the killer, Libby is contacted by the Kill Club and devises a money making scheme that leads her back into a killer's path.

A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, dig a well, and fight a prairie fire.

Four-year-old Ramona has an imagination that makes her a menace to everyone around her, particularly her older sister, Beezus.

Text and photographs present the home life and day-to-day activities of a family who lives in the cheese-making region of Emmental, Switzerland.

A collection of poems written from the point of view of a child with a black mother and a white father.

An adopted Korean girl discovers that her classmates have different types of families.

Caleb and Anna are captivated by the mail-order bride their father has invited to live with them in their prairie home and hope that she will stay.

While Eva and her family prepare for her quincea?era, no one is paying attention to her younger sister, but when the dog gets out of the laundry room and steals Eva's sash, her little sister comes to the rescue.