Margaret and Peter Adam enjoy many childhood experiences, including school, friendship, and vacation.

The Swiss Family Robinson is a classic novel by Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family of immigrants whose ship en route to Port Jackson, Australia, goes off course and is shipwrecked in the East Indies. Upon reaching a nearby island, the family sets up a makeshift camp. William knows that they must prepare for a long time on the island, and his thoughts are as much on provisions for the future as for their immediate wants....

A young pioneer girl and her family celebrate Christmas in their cabin in the woods of Wisconsin.

Forced to sell the dairy farm he's worked his entire life to make successful, Gerrit Laninga, now sixty-three, doesn't know what to do with himself. He sacrificed everything for his cows-his time, his health, his family-with nothing to show for it but bitterness, regret, and two grown children who want nothing to do with him. Fifteen-year-old Rae Walters is stricken with panic every time she climbs behind the wheel. But any failure, including not...

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.

The story of a large family growing up in the 1960s and 1970s. David, the father is a psychiatrist who teaches at the University of Chicago, and regards his second son as a disaster to the family.

Collects the first four books in Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, in which middle school student Greg Heffley recounts his day-to-day adventures.

A family's old, beloved dog takes a final road trip to help his humans find forgiveness and healing. Meg Gorton finds herself alone and lonely in Florida. Three years earlier, she had packed what she could fit into her sister's car, told her estranged husband, Gary, where he could find her, and asked him to take care of Moses, their beloved black Labrador. For years, she'd tried to talk Gary into moving away from Woodstock, Virginia. They both needed...

One of the most influential authors of the late nineteenth century, and a former editor of the Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Magazine, William Dean Howells wrote more than fifty novels, as well as plays, memoirs, and poetry collections. Opposed to the sentimentalism, contrived heroism, and theatrical endings in fiction, he developed a literary style based on unvarnished realism. This unique genre is brilliantly depicted in A Modern Instance, a novel...

During the summer Cassie learns to accept change and to understand herself and others.