family

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My family from Japan

2003
Introduces Keisei, an eleven-year-old boy living in Tokyo. Watch Keisi attend private school lessons after his regular school day, play ball with his father on the weekends, and go to the park with his sisters.

The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963

1996
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

Ramona's world

1999
Follows the adventures of nine-year-old Ramona at home with big sister Beezus and baby sister Roberta and at school in Mrs. Meacham's class.

Amy makes a friend

1998
Desperate for art lessons, Amy hopes to manipulate her friendship with two other girls to get what she wants.

Winter on the farm

adapted from the Little house books
1996
A young farm boy in New York spends a winter afternoon doing farm chores, then sits down to a farm supper with his family.

Prairie day

1997
A little girl and her pioneer family travel westward to find a new home on the prairie.

First love

a Gothic tale
1996
Eleven-year-old Josie and her mother come to live off the charity of an aunt in upstate New York, where Josie falls victim to the perverted attentions of her older cousin, Jared, Jr.

The true life story of Isobel Roundtree

a novel
1993
Ten-year-old Isobel's mother packs her suitcase and leaves home. Abandoned by her mother, invisible to her grief-dazed father, Isobel is nurtured by the stories of her great-grandmother.

What's eating Gilbert Grape?

1999
Gilbert Grape has never led an easy life, and taking care of his overweight mother, boy-crazy sister, and mentally handicapped younger brother has nearly driven Gilbert over the edge, but then a mysterious girl arrives in town and teaches him to see his life and his family in a different way.

Kingdom come

2006
"A Shakespearaean take on murder, deceit, and vengeance in the story of King Corporation, a family-owned company that instills greed and competition among friends"--Provided by publisher.

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