family

In 1948, nine-year-old Katy Sue's mother dies suddenly, and she and her family spend the next year trying to recover from their loss, assisted by her Aunt Katherine, who quits her teaching job to help out on their Iowa farm.

Becca has often spent time with her parents at her grandmother's cabin by the sea, but with her mother expecting a baby, she begins visiting on her own and by the time her new sibling arrives, has stored up a season full of friends and adventures.

In 1946, imaginary conversations with President Truman help ten-year-old Annie cope with having to live with her grandmother in Walla Walla, Washington, her uncle's prejudice toward her grandmother's black tenant, and her intense desire for news of her father, a pilot in the Army Air Corps who was reported missing in action.

A young boy explains to his teacher that his family consists of ninety-three members, including his parents, sisters, and an assortment of pets.

Danger continues to find the members of the eccentric Strega-Borgia family at their Scottish castle, this time in the form of a butler who wants to blow up a nearby corporation and a demon who seeks the all-powerful Chronostone.

When other family members infringe on what she had hoped would be a special day with her father, a young girl imagines herself alone with fish that take on familiar appearances.

Family relationships are explored and affirmed in this anthology of poems celebrating the diversity of African-American families.

Clifford and Emily Elizabeth go to the city to visit Clifford's family.

The four Conroy sisters' efforts to raise money in order to sponsor a ten-year-old boy in Africa get them into one difficult situation after another.

When half-Texan, half-Chinese Vee Crawford-Wong is tasked with writing a paper on his family history, he makes up a story about the grandfather he never met. Shortly after, a forged Chinese letter from his best friend convinces his family to travel all the way to China, where a series of unexpected events actually allow Vee to discover who he really is.