family

Distinctly unenthusiastic when her four-year-old niece, Ella, comes for a prolonged visit, eleven-year-old Amy finds her relationship with the small girl gradually changing her view of herself and life in general.

In Missouri in 1926, fifteen-year-old Iris Baldwin discovers what family truly means when her father hires her out for the summer as a companion to a country doctor's invalid mother.

Contains forty-six entries that provide coverage of critical issues in U.S. culture concerning family life, such as birth control, day care, divorce, and gay parent adoption; arranged alphabetically from A to G, with a guide to related topics and an index.

Story of the Dombey family and the business they own in nineteenth century England.

A concise compilation of statistics and information about issues that affect adolescents in the United States, such as pregnancy, violence, and crime.

An account of the author's childhood in a Texas oil town and of her family's struggles with cancer, madness, and alcoholism.

Ted and his parents, vacationing in Europe in the summer of 1936, become caught up in the dangers and intrigues of the Spanish Civil War.

After Dorrie's brother David dies, she can't accept that her family is falling apart, and when her mother begins to suffer serious bouts of depression, she runs away to escape the sorrow, but finds herself always being drawn back to her family.

Susannah and her family move to the Sierras in Mexico, and while they are there, their lives are forever changed by the Mundo people who live there.

The McNair children, Kevin, Amy, Liz, and Brian, have been raised to believe that family is the most important thing in the world, and when both of their parents die unexpectedly, they take whatever steps necessary to stay together, and become trapped in their own web of lies.