A little girl tries to get her busy mother to play with her by doing a series of silly things, from pouring water on her head to climbing into the big wastebasket.
Middle-school student Lizzie McGuire is worried when she learns that her mother, who she sometimes finds embarrassing, is going to chaperone the class camping trip.
In Baltimore in the 1920s, ten-year-old Dorothea slowly comes to a better understanding of Stubs, the oldAfrican American ragman who used to frighten her, and in the process she begins to cope with her mother's recent death.
Shy and retiring Lulu, whose greatest passion is baseball, finds her life changed dramatically when she saves a toddler who jumps out of an apartment house window.
Though happy living with her mother in London, twelve-year-old Susan is consumed by curiosity about the identity of her father and goes on a quest to look for him.
Thirteen-year-old Shelby and her three sisters must go to live with their respective fathers while their mother, who has trained them to rely on their looks, recovers from a car accident that scarred her face.
Eleven-year-old Verbena thinks her hereditary witchcraft is a curse that will keep her from having a normal life and marriage one day, but her mother and grandmother, who help tell the story, are eager to start her training.
Having left boarding school to live in a London hotel with her famous mother, thirteen-year-old Hollywood Bliss Winterman attempts to lead a normal life despite her parent's attempts to turn her into a celebrity.
