family

A girl finds herself running through the forest at the edge of a village with no memory of anything, even her own name, and later learns that she might be twelve-year-old Isabelle, believed to be stolen by a witch six years before.

An old hobo in Paris finds his life changed when he discovers three children under a bridge.

Sixth-grader Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor, Judd Travers, change his mean ways, even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst of him.

After her mother dies, eleven-year-old Cecelia befriends a new boy at school, but soon realizes that the scruffy youth's home life is the reason for his introspective personality, which is so much like her own.

Mom, Dad, and Gary Lizard all have different interests that they share with one another.

Ramona at 7 1/2 sometimes feels discriminated against by being the youngest in the family.

In the sometimes hectic days before Christmas, Emily's family appreciates her gifts of caring, sharing, helping, smiling, and loving. Includes a note for parents on how to encourage good manners during the holiday season.

Relates the adventures of a family and their dog on a Sunday drive to the country.

A tiny woman who lives in an overcrowded shoe takes her many children on a perilous hunt for a more spacious home.

In Los Angeles, California's China City in 1942, twelve-year-old Mei Ling Lee helps her parents in their restaurant during the Moon Festival celebration, raises money for women and children refugees in China, and worries about her Japanese American friend, whose family was relocated to Manzanar.