family

Presents brief interviews with children from fifteen diverse American families--including large, small, mixed-race, immigrant, gay and lesbian, divorced, single-parent, religious, adoptive, and special-needs families--about their parents, siblings, lifestyles, and traditions, and includes photos of each family.

Haunted by flashbacks, fifteen-year-old Meredith learns that three years in prison has not changed the abusive father who molested her.

After Andromeda Klein's tarot card readings prove to be accurate, she discovers clues to secret truths connected to her family and friends, but things become stranger when Andromeda's dead friend Daisy starts to harass her.

In the style of Clement Moore's familiar Christmas poem, tells of a family's last minute preparations for summer vacation.

In trouble at Bluford High for fighting, Martin faces an even bigger problem at home when Frankie, the most feared homeboy from his neighborhood, is hunting him.

Fourteen-year-old Nadira, her sister, and their parents leave Bangladesh for New York City, but the expiration of their visas and the events of September 11, 2001, bring frustration, sorrow, and terror for the whole family.

Thirteen-year-old Drew starts the summer of 1986 helping in her mother's cheese shop and dreaming about co-worker Nick, but when her widowed mother begins dating, Drew's father's book of lists, her pet rat, and Emmett--a boy who is on a quest of his own--help her cope.

Kate Brown is upset when she has to work with her father at the mall and her best friend begins ignoring her. To make things worse, she suspects that Will, who seems interested in her, is merely using her as his latest conquest. Kate decides that the only way to make things stop hurting is to distance herself and stop caring about anyone or anything.

Sophomore Frankie finally finds the courage to ask his long-term friend, Julianne, to the Homecoming dance, which ultimately leads to a face-off between a tough senior whose family owns most of their small, New Mexico town, and Frankie's soccer-star older brother and his gang-member friends.

Three lives intersect in the mountains and farms of southern Appalachia where they learn lessons of love and nature.