family

What happened after the neighbor disappeared from Raven Brooks? Piper Klein;s life has been turned upside down. She's moving from the big city to her recently-deceased dad's old hometown, Raven Brooks, and it's smack dab in the middle of, well, nowhere. Her once-quiet and meek sister seems to be the popular kid, her mom is running the local grocery store (and taking online classes-yeesh), and Piper is finding the town a little more strange than, well, small towns should be. Raven Brooks is a lot more than the quiet life that piper thought she was getting. But just how strange is it, exactly? And what does a certain Mr. Peterson have to do with it?.

Arriving in America, the so-called beautiful country, Anna, a young Taiwanese girl, finds it anything but beautiful as she and her family struggle to make a place for themselves in this world and learn the true meaning of home.

Dani tries to get her parents back together by lying about how much one person loves and misses the other. Her dad even comes to visit. Dani thinks her plan worked perfectly and they can be one happy family again. However, old problems creep in. Dani's parents are fighting more than ever, and she's in the middle of it. Can she keep her family together, or will she have to accept it might never work?.

Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ram?rez reaches out to her estranged biological father--who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador--and the eccentric extended family of wrestlers she has never met, bringing Adela closer to understanding the expansive definition of family.

With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.

"When Esperanza and her family arrive in the United States from Cuba, they buy a little house, una casita. It may be small, but they soon prove that there's room enough to share with a whole community"--Provided by publisher.

Dubbing his new triplet sisters "the Trips," nine-year-old Jacob studies them for a science project by watching them grow and realizes they aren't just "the Trips" anymore, but individuals he has come to love.

Luna has nowhere to go. She leaves home after her stepfather sexually assaults her. Now her only option is to run as far and as fast as possible. Luna takes to the streets, where she survives by stealing food, hiding in a car, and living in an abandoned house. But how long can she survive on the run? Where can she go if she can't go home?.

Peggy the pug's family has lost their festive spirit, and she'd do anything to make them happy again--including turn herself into a reindeer! She tries eating carrots and giving herself antlers and a glowing red nose, but nothing works--and the messes she makes only create more problems at home. Finally, Peggy decides that there's only one solution: go to the North Pole and ask Santa for help! Can one brave little pug save Christmas?.

Simple text and photographs introduce readers to the many foods that families eat.