While spending a bird-watching summer on Fire Island, the Pye family acquires a small black kitten that can use a typewriter.

This moving story follows one family through generations of time spent together and shows readers that memories allow us to connect to the past, the present, and also to each other.

Told in rhyming text, a young boy learns to swim in a pool with the example and encouragement of his family.

When a strange storm confines a fractured family in tight quarters, leaving them all in the dark, they must find a way to reconnect and face whatever the future brings-together.

A celebration of all kinds of families from sprawling extended families and close-knit units to adopted and chosen families.

Every year, a boy and his family go camping at Mountain Pond. Usually, they see things like an eagle fishing for his dinner, a salamander with red spots on its back, and chipmunks that come to steal food while the family sits by the campfire. But this year is different. This year, the boy is going into first grade, and his mother is encouraging him to do things on his own, just like his older brother. And the most different thing of all... this year,...

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

Twelve-year-old Anastasia is horrified at her family's decision to move from their city apartment to a house in the suburbs.

When the moon's gravitational pull increases, causing massive natural disasters on earth, Miranda and her family struggle to survive in a world without cities or sunlight, and wonder if anyone else in still alive.