family

A teen, plagued with fighting parents, an annoying older sister, a new girl, and other obstacles, decides she will have to make her own luck.

While preparing for Christmas in Puerto Rico, seven-year-old Esmeralda asks the Three Magi for a baby doll like her cousin's, but when they bring something else instead she gains a deeper understanding of the meaning of the holiday.

The Pepper family, including the widowed Mrs. Pepper and her five children, are happy despite their poverty, but conditions improve when they are befriended by Jasper King and his very wealthy father.

A mother shares with her child all the ways in which family members and friends were loving and welcoming before the child was even born.

In New Orleans in 1898, while her mother talks of saving to buy land and her father insists on the importance of an education, young Irish immigrant Maggie McCrary is determined to find her own way in the new place they call home.

Hector McGregor, inventor of peppermint pencils, glow-in-the-dark books, and other unusual items, leaves his home workshop to work in a laboratory but finds that his inspiration comes from being around his cheery wife, five children, and a hen called Hattie.

Nicholas wants a place that is his very own, and his younger brother finds a way to help. Includes activity suggestions.

Eccentric Aunt Sally comes from Canada to babysit the Anderson children while their parents are on a trip to Paris and every night the bedtime story adds another piece to a very suspect family history.

The author gives insights into rebuilding the family and making safe homes for the children.