Tired of sharing his bed with his children and never having enough room for himself, Ben's dad builds the biggest bed in the world, but it is also the heaviest bed, which causes some problems.
After moving to a new town, Jonah, an eleven-year-old with a big imagination, reinvents himself as a talk show host, hoping this will somehow bring his absent father back.
Shakespeare readers will further be able to understand and appreciate the text of this play with the help of explanatory footnotes on the language and expression used, and a history of Shakespearean theater and writing.
Jessie, a young girl living in the Oklahoma dust bowl during the Depression, tries to tame a wild dog and help her father recover from a nervous breakdown.
In the summer of 1945 in Chicago, twelve-year-old Christine anxiously awaits, along with her mother and sister, news of the political activist father they had to leave behind when they emigrated from Poland six years before.
A father shares with his little girl the story of the star blanket, a present he was given when he was a boy that taught him the importance of knowing and remembering one's extended family.
Joey's father returns, calling himself Charles Heinz and apologizing for his past bad behavior, and he swears that once Joey and his mother change their names and help him fix up the old diner he has bought, their lives will change for the better.
When his father disappears while experimenting with a black mirror that is a portal to both the past and the future, Jake encounters obstacles when he tries to use the mirror to find his father.
