fathers

Different children spend time with their fathers, playing, cooking, pretending, and having a wonderful time.

Dad's behavior changes when he becomes a dinosaur for a day.

The life of ten-year-old Bobby Lassiter changes drastically when she meets Mister Boots, a man who is also a horse.

Six years after coming to live with their grandmother, James and Sammy Tillerman go in search of their long-lost father.

When Megan, thirteen, and Kevin, ten, go to spend a school year with their divorced father, now a teacher at a military school, they find life a bit different than with their easygoing mother.

Eleven-year old Robbie and his thirteen-year-old sister, Peggy, involve themselves in some elaborate schemes to discourage their widowed father's budding romance and to persuade him to move back to their old hometown.

Presents a journal of three children who recorded their feelings and emotions following the death of their father, and offers guidance for others who have also suffered a loss.

Features Charles Brockden Brown's "Wieland," in which a woman searches for the cause of her brother's madness after he claims God ordered him to murder his wife and children; and includes short stories and a newspaper account of the murder that inspired Brown's tale.

With his family, fifteen-year-old Billy struggles to help his father deal with a debilitating depression.