family

During the summer of 1920, sixteen-year-old Alison meets the wealthy, glamorous Farraday family who bring excitement into her life and a new appreciation of her own family.

Fourteen-year-old Fern and her family face challenges and hardships when they move to a farm in South Dakota.

After his mother's death, a shy ten-year-old boy must find a place for himself in his grandparents' boisterous Italian family in New York City.

Discusses the nature, importance, and challenges of being part of a family and explains ways to deal with family stress and dysfunction.

Presents statistics on marriage; quality of family life; divorce and separation; children; sexual attitudes, behaviors, and contraceptive use; living arrangements; working women; demographic and economic context; and child care.

Presents more than two hundred alphabetized, cross-referenced entries on theoretical, biographical, historical, and practical facets of parenting in America, from conception through trends and problems in child rearing; entries include bibliographies.

Surveys customs and rituals of different cultures, and places them in their proper context, within the groups whose traditions have evolved for survival at a particular place and time.

Presents opposing viewpoints about changing sex roles and the effect these changes have on individuals, interpersonal relationships, and society. Includes discussion questions and exercises.

An abridged version of Louisa May Alcott's classic "Little women, " which chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England. Includes read-along CD.

A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.