A young girl describes her relationship to the various members of her family, including her stepfamily, as they all gather to celebrate her birthday.

Lewis finds a family when he travels to the future.

A little boy goes with his parents on an express bus to visit twins, in a taxi to visit Grandma, and in a car to see the county fair, then walks next door with his mother for a play date.

D.W. is in a very bossy mood, but when she tries to boss her mom, dad, sister, and brother around, they all work together to get D.W. to realize that it isn't very nice to be bossy.

Relates how Benjamin Banneker's grandmother worked as an indentured servant, began a farm of her own, and married a freed slave.

In 1805, Sacagawea, a woman of the Shoshoni tribe, helps Meriwether Lewis and William Clark find a passage to the West Coast, in this story told through the eyes of the baby boy on Sacagawea's back.

Two families--a large one that lives in a house and the other a tiny one that lives in a snow globe, look forward to a big snowstorm.

Represents a variety of fathers, with lots of hair and little hair, making cookies and buying doughnuts, camping out and taking naps, and hugging and kissing their children.

The life of an apple tree, planted by Alfred's mother when he was a baby, parallels Alfred's life as he and his children and grandchildren grow older together.