family

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Coping with an emotionally distant father

1994
Shows how to deal with different kinds of fathers including: imprisoned fathers, gay fathers, physically challenged fathers, sports fanatic fathers, divorced fathers, stepfathers, adoptive fathers, previously abused fathers, and alcoholic fathers.

The hope

a novel
1993
Story of four Israeli army officers from the 1948 War of Independence to the Six Day War in 1967.

There are no children here

the story of two boys growing up in the other America
1991
Explores life in an American inner city through the lives of two boys.

The Thanksgiving visitor

1967
A boy recalls his life with an elderly relative in rural Alabama in the 1930s and the lesson she taught him one Thanksgiving Day about dealing with a bully from school.

My son's story

1990
A schoolboy playing truant bumps into his revered father coming out of a cinema with a woman.

Ironweed

1984
Chronicles the final wanderings of a one-time ballplayer turned down-and-out murderer.

It could always be worse

a Yiddish folk tale
1990
Unable to stand his overcrowded and noisy home any longer, a poor man goes to the Rabbi for advice.

The Incredibles

2005
Forced to live as normal humans, superheroes Bob and Helen Parr, once Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl, are struggling to make it in the suburbs, but when a message summons Bob to a remote island for a top-secret job, the super-couple and their budding super-children are soon fighting for their lives.

Families

1981
Describes different kinds of families.

The best Hanukkah ever

2007
When the Knoodle family tries to follow their rabbi's advice about giving the greatest gift, everything goes wrong and their Hanukkah seems ruined until the rabbi comes to straighten things out.

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