Miranda's three children thoroughly enjoy their huge, overdressed baby sitter/cleaning woman who is actually their father in disguise, and they dread the day when their mother discovers Madame Doubtfire is really her ex-husband.
Changes are happening at a fast rate for Running Fawn. Now that the white men have come her tribe must leave their winter camp and she must attend the Mission Boarding School far away from her home and family.
Thirteen-year-old Flora Popescu and her family find themselves caught up in events leading to the overthrow of the repressive regime of Nicholae Ceausescu in Romania in 1989.
Through a series of family disagreements over her seven-year-old brother's efforts to become a dancer and her own determination to be a lawyer, eleven-year-old Emma realizes that it is up to children to take the initiative since parents rarely change.
In nineteenth-century China, a young girl struggles to protect her family from the threat of bandits, famine, and an ideological conflict between her father and brother.
After surviving the genocide in their homeland, Maral Pegorian and her family arrive in Paris to start a new life, but they soon realize that the Nazi Occupation is not simply a temporary outrage to be endured.
With his mother's abusive boyfriends and a dead-end life in a trailer park, seventeen-year old Tony tries to find escape in his mixed martial arts classes, hoping it is enough to stave off the drug-dealing motorcycle gang who wants him as a recruit.
