Over the course of the summer of 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young discovers the passion within her when eighteen-year-old King-Roy Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to live with her family.
Sixteen-year-old Sophie has been frail and delicate since her premature birth, but discovers her true strength during a journey through Mexico, where the six-year-old orphan her family hopes to adopt was born, and to Guatemala, where her would-be boyfriend hopes to find his mother and plans to remain.
When twelve-year-old Lise spends the summer on an island in Maine with her self-reliant mother and bright--but oddly mute--younger brother, her formerly safe world is complicated by an aged Indian neighbor, her mother's childhood friend, and a hurricane.
Thirteen-year-old Victor keeps a journal about the mysterious letters that began arriving on his birthday, his fear of the high diving board, confusion over his divorced parents' relationship, and an assertive girl he calls D.
When strange events occur in his newly inherited manor house in Cornwall, England, Stephen, a teenager who was abandoned at birth, investigates the mystery and his family history using clues found in a travel journal kept by his great uncle Theo during his trip to the Amazon River region.
Describes the homes of the ancient Romans, including palaces, merchants' homes, and city and country houses, covering their furniture and decoration, heat and light, kitchens, gardens, and bathing areas.
Discusses what makes a family in today's world, how that definition has changed over time, reasons why families break apart, how to deal with the changes, and religious, ethical and legal views of divorce and family break-up.
Collecting The Simpsons comics #36-42, this volume features America's favorite dysfunctional family--Bart, Lisa, Marge, Homer, and Maggie--in more outrageously funny adventures.
