Eleven-year-old Martha tries to keep her family together after her mother's death as her father struggles with alcoholism.

Irrepressible Joey must draw upon all of his emotional reserves to face his latest challenge. His good-for-nothing dad shows up, having won the lottery and acquired a new identity. Carter Pigza is now Charles Heinz; he's won back Joey's mother, Fran (renamed Maria); and Joey is expected to forgive him his past sins and reinvent himself as Freddy Heinz. Dad has big plans for the family. He's bought a run-down diner and will use his son to drum up business...

"Desperado Detectives-- aka Mo Lo Beau and her best friend Dale, along with newly-appointed intern, Harm Crenshaw-- must take on a new case when Dale's daddy goes on the lam just before his trial is about to start"--

Sharron's father has disappeared, and she tries to cope with her feelings of loss through the love of a stuffed dog he gave her.

David lives in the city. Six months ago his father disappeared; but David has seen him again. Is his father really dead?

Winning the hearts of two tough gold miners who raise her near an Eskimo village in 1920s Alaska, young orphan Bo thrives amid the daily activities of both cultures before seeing a first airplane, encountering a bear, and meeting a mysterious lost little boy.

After her grandmother dies, Zelly and her mother move to tiny Plunkit, where Zelly searches for her estranged father and helps the Nutfolk save their home from developers.

Determined to prove her conspiracy theorist father's beliefs about lost Cold War technology, Gillian, her skeptical brother, and their friends journey to the ruins of a vast doomsday bunker before they are confronted by dangerous adversaries.

In 1825 when Josefina trusts a trader in Santa Fe with an important deal, she makes a surprising discovery about this young American who leaves town without paying her.

Summertime brings the Fletcher Family back to Rock Island where the good times never end, but this summer the boys' favorite lighthouse is all boarded up and with the help from their new neighbors, the Garcia girls, the boys are determined to find out what is really happening with their lighthouse and saving it, no matter what the cost.