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The adventures of Sam, Anastasia Krupnik's younger brother, from his first day as a newborn through his mischievous times as a toddler.

Her family's new organized schedule for easy housekeeping makes thirteen-year-old Anastasia confident that she can run the household while her mother is out of town, until she hits unexpected complications.

Josh and his cousin bond over tacos and reptiles and jokes, but on a trip into the nearby forest, they suddenly find themselves in the path of a fast-moving firestorm, a super-heated monster that will soon lay waste to millions of acres of wilderness and -- possibly -- their town. Josh needs to confront the family issues burning him up inside, but first he'll have to survive the flames blazing all around him.

Young Mary Elizabeth relates the humorous misadventures of her brother Louis and the other wacky members of her unpredictable, very odd family.

Fed up with her family's preoccupation with her sister's coming wedding, Persis tells no one of her music school scholarship until the disappearance of a valuable wedding gift precipitates a crisis that reveals a new side to her family.

Twelve-year-old Max struggles to manage a grieving mother, a special-needs brother and a desire to play hockey.

Karen has a rotten, horrible, bad-luck day when nothing seems to go right. Her family tries to help her day get better.

Now that Dawn and Mary Anne are friends and sisters, their relationship is not everything they dreamed it would be.

In 1946 a ten-year-old girl tries to understand and overcome her stern father's objections to having a Christmas tree in the house.

The adventures of five sisters growing up in a Jewish family in New York in the early twentieth century.