Not only can Larry the dog talk, he can also sing, but when these unusual talents come to the attention of his family, the public, and dogdom, Larry is faced with problems he never imagined.
While anticipating a vacation to the Grand Canyon, ten-year-old Samantha Hanson wonders why her mother refuses to talk about her father, who died when Samantha was young, and finds it difficult to control her temper towards her older sister.
A young boy swaps his father for two goldfish, but when his mother sends him to retrieve his dad, he learns that his somewhat boring, newspaper-reading father has been traded on down the line.
When teen sleuth Sammy Keyes travels to Las Vegas to stop her mom from marrying her boyfriend's dad, she never expects she'll learn the identity of her absent father in the process.
Portia Remini runs away from McGreavey's Home for Wayward Girls and joins a traveling wonder show to look for her missing father. Portia races to find her father before the evil director from the home finds her first.
Devastated by the death of her Shakespearean-actor father, Esti Legard moves to a tropical island for her senior year in high school, where she finds herself torn between a mysterious, masked mentor and a seductive island boy as she tries to escape the overpowering shadow of her famous father.
When living with her mother, an alcoholic ex-beauty queen, becomes unbearable, almost seventeen-year-old Maybelline "Maybe" Chestnut runs away to California, where she finds work on a taco truck and tries to track down her birth father.
