Henry Carter Hull

"A family of six is shipwrecked on a tropical island. They must work together to start a new life filled with exploration and adventure"--

The relatives come to visit from Virginia and everyone has a wonderful time.

Anne, a mother of five and married for fifteen years, suddenly begins to worry that Gilbert doesn't love her anymore.

It's a big day for a little girl when she discovers her first loose tooth and makes a trip to the grocery store on the mainland.

Follows the lives of Clay-Boy Spencer and his family during the summer he hunts a legendary white deer, falls in love, and learns what he will do with his life.

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

Louisa May Alcott, more famously known for her „Little Women" series, takes a familiar nursery rhyme and creates a whole novel out of it in one of her last books „Jack and Jill: A Village Story". The story follows the lives of two 13-year-old neighbors, Jack and Jill, in the fictional Harmony Village. They go sledding on the first day of the season whereupon their adventurous natures and competitiveness get the better of them. After sledding down...

Describes a variety of families, some big and some small, some with only one parent and some with two moms or dads, some quiet and some noisy, but all alike in some ways, and special no matter what.

A boy relates the preparations for, and enjoyment of, his family's annual Thanksgiving in the Woods celebration on his grandparents' farm. Includes words to the Shaker hymn, Tis a Gift to be Simple, and notes about the real gathering on which the story is based.

A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.