family

A family makes preparations, eagerly awaiting the arrival of the angel who will come up the mountain bringing a new baby.

When Mrs. Piggott unexpectedly leaves one day, her demanding family begins to realize just how much she did for them.

Poems, letters, and illustrations celebrate the entire family, including grandmothers fathers, sisters, and brothers.

Molly conquers her fear of swimming underwater when she and the other campers at Camp Gowonagin divide into two teams to play Color War.

In rhyming verses, a young girl describes how the members of her family make her feel loved.

As the summer ends, six-year-old Garmann's three ancient aunts visit and they all talk about the things that scare them.

When his strange family moves into her quiet southern Indiana town, sixth-grader Lydia Carson initially despises her new neighbor and classmate, who seems as wild as the raccoon that is his closest companion.

In a small California town in 1951, twelve-year-old Paolo and his deaf cousin Billy get caught up in a search for money missing from the church collection, leading them to complicated discoveries about themselves, other family members, and townspeople they thought they knew.

Alejandro grows from ten years old to the age of seventeen, learning about life from his extended Mexican American family on a small ranch in 1940s South Texas.

Huey invents banana spaghetti, is frightened by a bad dream, becomes an animal tracker, and leaves on a trip to Africa.