Johnson, Angela

Inspired by his family experiences and his father's paintings, a young boy creates four poems.

A very young boy in a yellow slicker enjoys playing in the rain.

A child imagines being old with Grandaddy and joining him in such activities as playing cards all day, visiting the ocean, and eating bacon on the porch.

A series of candid reflections by the youngest of three sisters on her daily relationships with her older sisters and family.

Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.

Living in a small town in Ohio in 1975 and desperately missing her divorced father, thirteen-year-old Doreen comes to terms with disturbing changes in her family life.

Sophy fears that she will become like her older sister Nicole who has schizophrenia.

Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.

Sweet leaves her family and goes to live in a cabin in the woods with the quiet but understanding Curtis, to whom she feels intensely connected, just as he is called back to serve again in Iraq.

Daisy describes the preparations leading up to her older sister's wedding and the joyous and bittersweet feelings surrounding the event itself.