family

Six different children talk with their parents about how their families came to be. Included are birth families, adoptive families, two-parent families, and single-parent families.

The cruel family with which Christina and some other children live have already destroyed Anya. Now they have selected their next victim. Christina wants to save the others, but first she must save herself from The Evil.

With two sons of her own and twelve orphan boys filling the informal school at Plumfield, Jo March couldn't be happier. But boys have a habit of getting into scrapes, even when they are being cared for by the warm and affectionate March family.

Passion, tragedy, betrayal, and love await Chrissie Ascham after she meets and befriends the family of Alfred Dunstan, a wealthy, domineering, English industrialist.

When ten-year-old Rayona's Native American mother enters a treatment facility, her estranged father, a Black man, finally introduces her to his side of the family, who are not at all what she expected.

Chester Raccoon is very unhappy about leaving his home, a tree that has been marked by tree cutters, so his mother tries to convince him their new home might be even better.

In a letter to his children, a father recounts memories of the role Steve, the tree in their front yard, has played in their lives.

In 1940, thirteen-year-old Tommy's routine of school, playing stickball in his Bronx, New York, neighborhood, talking with his friend Beth, and listening to Dodgers games on the radio changes as his mother's illness and his increasing awareness of the war in Europe transform his world.

Although he reminds his mother that everybody makes mistakes, and provides a lot of examples, young Jack is still in hot water for making three big mistakes while playing with his younger sister on their uncle's wedding day.

Archie makes clever agreements with his brother and sister, hoping to be able to play soccer while on vacation.