When it is "Backward Day," Judy must turn her usual sour mood upside down and be happy and nice for a change.

Arthur has to write a story as a homework assignment and keeps changing his idea of what to write as he talks to his friends.

In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.

One year after a random shooting changed their family forever, Nora and her father are exploring a slot canyon deep in the Arizona desert, hoping it will help them find peace. But when they reach the bottom of the canyon, the unthinkable happens: a flash flood rips across their path, sweeping away Nora's father and all of their supplies. Suddenly, Nora finds herself lost and alone in the desert, facing dehydration, venomous scorpions, deadly snakes,...

Marie-Grace Gardner, a doctor's daughter who has just returned to her native New Orleans in 1853, makes friends with C?ecile Rey, whose prosperous family are free people of color, and is persuaded to change places with her at separate Mardi Gras balls.

A child's emotions range from silliness to anger to excitement, coloring and changing each day.

In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal li

Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.

When Dory, the forgetful blue tang, suddenly remembers she has a family who may be looking for her, she, Marlin, and Nemo take off on a life-changing quest to find them, with help from Hank, a cantankerous octopus; Bailey, a beluga whale who's convinced his biological sonar skills are on the fritz; and Destiny, a nearsighted whale shark!