Eleven-year-old Maggie Mayfield is an A-plus student with big plans for herself, but at this moment she is also facing a lot of problems--like starting middle school and figuring out how to help her father who is out of work and in a wheelchair.

The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job. Ramona Quimby is a character intimately known by Beverly Cleary readers. In this story of Ramona's year in second grade they will come to know Mr. Quimby equally well. As it opens he loses his job without warning, and Ramona's seven-year-old view of this all-too-frequently family crisis rings every change of mood from tears to laughter. Not...

A father teaches his daughter all about bicycle riding, from selecting the right bike to trying again after a fall.

A girl tells about the qualities that make her father great in her eyes.

As a girl and her father run errands in their old blue pickup, she discovers how many different ways they can use their truck.

A young Mexican girl eagerly awaits her absent father's return and hopes that he will bring enough money so that she can walk to school in new shoes.

"A child celebrates a close connection with her father, from how they play together and teach each other new things to how he protects her and always makes time for her"--

In rhyming text, a father and daughter spend a day doing all kinds of things together.

Nine-year-old Liz accompanies the stranger who is her father, just returned from the war, when he goes hunting for crows in Pennsylvania farmland.

A father and his young daughter share love and laughter as they spend time together and turn an ordinary day into a wonderful adventure.