by Barbara Brooks Wallace (1975)
After she accidentally knocks a hot iron on her sister's hand, a little Russian girl waits in terror for the two bad things to follow the first as her grandmother predicted.
Lisa Rosinsky
Fifteen-year-old Cadie's life is turned upside-down when her father reveals that she has a half-sister, Elizabeth, who is only a few months older than Cadie. Not only that, Elizabeth's mother has just died, so now Elizabeth will move in with Cadie's family. Learning about a half-sister is one thing, but sharing a family with her is a whole other challenge.
Viola Canales
Sofia grows up in the close-knit community of the barrio in McAllen, Texas, then finds that her experiences as a scholarship student at an Episcopal boarding school in Austin only strengthen her ties to family and her "comadres."
Tim Pears
Ezra and Sheena Pepin live in Blenheim Orchard in North Oxford with their three children: fourteen-year-old Blaise, entering the storm-world of adolescence. Hector, eleven and precociously clever, and sweet Louie, three years old and the family tyrant. Ezra, a disaffected employee at Isis Water, has abandoned his calling as an anthropologist; Sheena has inadvertently found hers running a travel company. They are like everyone else: over-worked, worried about the children, trying to steer their marriage on an even keel. But change comes knocking at the Pepins' door - and the family will never be quite the same again.
Michael Shoulders
Nightly, the members of a bear family that values books and reading share a personally inscribed book and a cookie with Baby Bear to celebrate milestones and memorable days in his life. Includes recipe for honey oatmeal cookies.