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A collection of six issues of "Simpsons Comics" in which Maggie goes missing, Cletus attends college, Lisa finds out what's hiding in the school's supply closet, the Simpsons celebrate Thanksgiving, and more.

Discusses the food, dress, schooling, games, housing, and culture of children in ancient Rome.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank N. Stein love their son very much, but despite their best efforts and his, it seems he will never look or act as scary as a Stein should.

Two Scottish sisters, living on the western island of Barra in the 1850s, relate, in alternate voices and linked narrative poems, their experiences after their family is forcibly evicted and separated with one sister accompanying their parents and younger siblings to Cape Breton, Canada, and the other staying behind with other family on the small island of Mingulay.

With his mother on the phone, his father checking e-mail, and his sister playing with her friends, a little boy feels as if he is all alone in the house, and no matter how badly he behaves, no one comes to stop him.

His younger brother's obsession with money, and the discovery of long-lost cousins Flora and Fauna, provide many embarrassing moments for twelve-year-old Peter.

Contains a children's study of home life in Ancient Greece and includes information on families, marriage, and children, women's roles, slavery, types of food and clothing, and entertainment.

As Esme introduces her stuffed animal collection that is alphabetically arranged from Alvin the aardvark to Zelda the zebra she also relates her family's military life and her father's deployment.

The quiet, isolated life of the Blackwoods--eighteen-year-old Merricat; her older sister, Constance, who may have poisoned their parents six years ago; and their wheelchair-bound uncle--is disrupted by the arrival of a cousin pursuing the family fortune.

Amy and Dan Cahill continue to hunt for clues while reeling from the knowledge of what happened the night their parents died, and they wonder if the end is near as they try to learn the secret behind Grace Cahill's alternate will.