family

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The kite festival

2004
While on a Sunday outing, Fernando and his family encounter a kite festival and decide to create a kite from scrap materials so that they can join in.

Vera runs away

2000
When her family seems to be too busy to appreciate her good report card, first-grader Vera decides to find somewhere else to live.

Family life in the Middle Ages

2007
Presents a history of the family during the Middle Ages, covering the transition from Roman times, the impact of religion, the physical environment, and the family in the West, in the Byzantine Empire, in the Islamic World, and in the Jewish culture of the times.

The Domestic world

1991
History of the development of the home and family from the primitive shelter through medieval times to the present day.

What makes us a family?

living in a nontraditional family
2010
This book is a collection of stories of young girls whose families are not traditional family models and who must learn that there are many resources available to help one cope with challenging family situations.

Little altars everywhere

a novel
1996
The Walker clan, Vivi and Big Shep; their children Sidda, Little Shep, Lulu, and Baylor; Vivi's long-time girlfriends the Ya-Yas; and neighbors Cheney and Willetta, live out their lives in flamboyant and secretive style in the bayou of Thornton, Louisiana.

Shizuko's daughter

1994
After Yuki's mother commits suicide, the 12-year-old girl must live with her distant father and his resentful new wife. Cut off from her mother's family, Yuki learns to rely on her own inner strength to cope with the tragedy.

Brief Lives #7 The Sandman

1994
A graphic novel in which Delirium, the youngest of the family known as the Endless, and her brother, Dream, journey through the world of the waking in an effort to locate their missing sibling, Destruction, and Dream struggles to resolve his troubled relationship with his son, Orpheus.

Season of Mists #4 The Sandman

1992
Presents a graphic novel, written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by a variety of top comic artists, in which Lord Morpheus is commanded by his family, the immortal beings known as the Endless, to rescue a lover who he had condemned to hell, even though Lucifer has sworn to kill him.

Keysha's drama

2007
African-American sixteen-year-old Keysha Kendall takes up with a bad crowd as she struggles to adjust to life in her affluent biological father's home after her mother is arrested.

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