Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Families and family members

Late that evening, Dad and I had a long talk.

Every Sunday, our little house would be filled with the delicious aroma of spaghetti gravy simmering, the sound of Grandma's meatballs sizzling on the stove, and the sight of family gathering for a special time known as Sunday Funday.

Jean Maxine is a bright, curious girl who likes to have lots of fun.

For as long as he could remember, she always wanted him to wear his socks.

One day Daniel was very upset: his grandma wouldn't give him a cookie, and sister didn't let him use her red colored pencil.

Mugsy the dog lives in a neighborhood where everyone loves him.

Come along with Bruce as he makes wonderful and adventurous discoveries about his family and the world while they are all in quarantine.

Stellina was a little girl with a vision disability called retinitis pigmentosa (RP).

The Boot family desires to take a vacation, but due to bills and the absence of extra funds, it just does not seem possible.

I give my mom a kiss and say, "e;I'll be back soon,"e; just as my daddy does.

Nina White has felt her calling was always to bring peace and joy and love to the world and that it was her spiritual gift to serve others.

She was a curious little girl who had so many questions.

7 year old Sarah and her older sister, Beth, are constantly fighting and arguing with each other.

Award-Winning Finalist in the Children's Picture Book: Hardcover Fiction category of the 2016 Best Book AwardsNo pajamas at the park.

If you had one chance to change your future, would you?

The follow-up to The Temple of Doubt, by the author who Jonathan Maberry called a powerful new voice in teen fantasy fiction.

If I let you read mine, will you let me read yours?

A 2015 Whitney Award Nominee!

In Everyone Visits Family, readers will learn about ways that families connect and see each other, especially through travel.

Where Do You Come From?

Mrs.

This is the third children's book written and illustrated by James C.

Baby Rita is very upset when she wakes up one morning and her parents are gone while thepaternal grandparents are there to babysit, whom she rarely sees.

Winner of the Crystal Kite Award, this touching story explores what it mean to be a good friend, how you should react to a bully, and makes the events of September 11th, 2001 personal.

When Joel and Olivia sit down to dinner, with two of their favorite dinosaurs, Olivia cant help but point out that her dinosaur is better.

Three classic stories for young adults about the wonder and power of our connections with nature and each other.

From the savanna to the city to outer space, celebrated Nordic children's book illustrator Linda Bondestam offers a charming peek at the many ways we settle in for sleep, with gorgeous, dreamlike illustrations full of offbeat humor.

Destiny doesn't factor into seventeen-year-old adoptee Maddie's rational world, where numbers and scientific probability have always proven to be the only things she can count on as safe and reliable.

This book on getting along with others offers teachers and counselors specific, easy-to-use strategies for approaching this sometimes difficult but important issue in the lives of middle school students.

This book on respecting the rights of others offers teachers and counselors specific, easy-to-use strategies for approaching this sometimes difficult but important issue in the lives of middle school students.

Discusses the symptoms, causes, and treatment of premenstrual syndrome, or PMS.

“Padre, ¿el mundo entero es un campamento de refugiados?

Lizzie is a five-year-old Amish girl in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Called the perfect childrens introduction to environmental issues by Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund, Our House Is Round gently guides young readers through a smartly narrated conversation illuminating the concept of global connection and environmental cause and effect.

Time Period: 1889 In Minneapolis in 1889, ten-year-old Rachel Borland finds her family torn apart by the new labor movement.

Time Period: 1914 1914 is a tough year for twelve-year-old Maria Schmidt.

Time Period: Jan.

Against the backdrop of the high-stakes and intensely competitive equestrian sport of show jumping, Finny, a fifteen-year-old girl in California, adopts an emaciated, untrained horse without her parents' knowledge.

For most girls, sleepaway camp is great fun.

Grandpa Elephant knows that it is his time to go to the elephant graveyard, and so he begins his farewell to his grandchildren.

A mother's love for her children is unbreakable.

10-year-old Levi has just joined a new foster family.

Oliver can't wait for his first day of school, but his dad isn't quite ready!

Oliver can't wait for his first day of school, but his dad isn't quite ready!

Magnolia Vickers' fairy tale happiness was ruined five months ago when her boyfriend, Carter Landlow, was killed.

Salina Yoon continues her Geisel Honor-winning early reader series starring Big Duck, Little Duck, and Porcupine, perfect for fans of bestselling series like Elephant & Piggie, Ballet Cat, and Pig in a Wig.

Salina Yoon continues her Geisel Honor-winning early reader series starring Big Duck, Little Duck, and Porcupine, perfect for fans of bestselling series like Elephant & Piggie, Ballet Cat, and Pig in a Wig.

A Geisel Honor Award WinnerSalina Yoon continues her Geisel Honor-winning early reader series starring Big Duck, Little Duck, and Porcupine, perfect for fans of bestselling series like Elephant & Piggie, Ballet Cat, and Pig in a Wig.