family

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The woodshed mystery

1962
The Boxcar children uncover a double mystery involving an old friend of Aunt Jane's.

Pride and prejudice

2005
Presents an illustrated retelling of Jane Austen's novel about spirited Englishwoman Elizabeth Bennet, who tries to cope with the snobbish Mr. Darcy while attempting to sort out the romantic entanglements of two of her sisters, sweet and beautiful Jane, and scatterbrained Lydia.

Family survival

2005
Provides information about families and stepfamilies, looks at some of the problems that can occur in families, and offers suggestions on how to solve them.

Family funnies

a book of family jokes
2004
A collection of jokes and riddles about members of the family.

All families are different

2000
A simple explanation of families, how they function, how they are different, and how they are alike.

Stranger at the window

1998
At first eleven-year-old Leslie doesn't like the three older Harwood children who live next-door to her aunt in London, but she comes to see them differently when she is drawn into their efforts to help a young boy who has entered the country illegally.

Staying at Sam's

1990
When he spends the night at his friend Sam's, a young boy discovers that his family's way of doing things is not necessarily the way all families do things.

The President's daughter

2008
Sixteen-year-old Meghan Powers' happy life in Massachusetts changes drastically when her mother, one of the most prestigious senators in the country, becomes the front-runner in the race for United States President.

The smell of old lady perfume

2008
When sixth-grader Chela Gonzalez's father has a stroke and her grandmother moves in to help take care of the family, her world is turned upside down.

Under a wing

a memoir
1998
The author, youngest daughter of famous aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife, author Anne Morrow Lindbergh, tells what it was like growing up in a family subjected to both celebrity and tragedy.

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