family

An African American woman struggles for survival and success during the Texas oil boom of the 1920s.

A young woman, raised by her grandparents in the bayous of Louisiana, clings to the love of a man whose parents forbid him to associate with her as she seeks out her father and learns of the deception and blackmail from the past.

When Ruby is sent to an exclusive boarding school and treated with snobbishness and contempt, she dreams of finding happiness in a loving home.

The Bear family discovers the best cure for the grouchies is a smile.

A young girl with ambitions to be a writer tries to adjust to her widowed mother's remarriage.

Sent with her younger brother to God?y Island to live with her aunt and grandfather after Germans bomb Norway in 1940, ten-year-old Merit longs to join her parents in the Resistance and when her aunt, a teacher, is taken away two years later, she resents even more the Nazis' presence and her grandfather's refusal to oppose them. Includes historical facts and glossary.

After Birdie learns that she comes from a family of fairy godmothers, she begins her training with the fairies in Aventurine; but when Birdie's family talisman, a singing stone, is broken, Birdie and Kerka, a warrior-like girl, go on a quest to find the missing half of the stone.

Alfredito cannot wait for his first plane ride, which will take him and his family home to El Salvador for Christmas, and his excitement and joy help him discover the true meaning of the holiday season.

Young Mary Elizabeth relates the humorous misadventures of her brother Louis and the other wacky members of her unpredictable, very odd family.