We Are Family

titles about families

Young Adult
Down Garrapata Road – Anne Estevis
Deliver Us From Evie – M. E. Kerr
The Legend of Buddy Bush – Sheila P. Moses

Juvenile Fiction
Cecilia's Year – Susan Gonzales Abraham
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Before We Were Free – Julia Alvarez
How Tia Lola Came to Visit Stay – Julia Alvarez
Hidden Roots – Joseph Bruchac
Amber Brown Is Green With Envy – Paula Danziger
Whale Rider – Witi Ihimaera
The Truth About Sparrows – Marian Hale
Mister and Me – Kimberly Willis Holt
The First Decade: Curtain Going Up – Dorothy & Tom Hoobler
Pioneer Summer – Deborah Hopkinson
Oh No, Noah! – Johanna Hurwitz
Ola Shakes It Up – Joanne Hyppolite
Lucy Rose, Here's the Thing About Me – Katy Kelly
The Long Season of Rain – Helen Kim
Someday: Novel – Jackie French Koller
Morgy Coast to Coast – Maggie Lewis
Gentle's Holler – Kerry Madden
Here Today – Ann M. Martin
The Sisters Club – Megan McDonald
Made You Look – Diane Roberts
House of Sports – Marisabina Russo
The Jumping Tree – Rene Saldaρa, Jr.
Surviving the Applewhites – Stephanie S. Tolan
Escaping Tornado Season – Julie Williams

Picture Books
Bubba and Beau Meet the Relatives – Kathi Appelt
Dandelions – Eve Bunting
Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry – Bebe Moore Campbell
The Secret Remedy Book: A Story of Comfort and Love – Karn Cates
Yunmi and Halmoni's Trip – Sook Nyul Choi
The Coffee Can Kid – Jan M. Czech
Manuela's Gift – Kristyn Rehling Estes
My Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandfather–Was a Warrior! – Riccardo Francaviglia
Grandparents Song – Shelia Hamanaka
Don't Forget to Come Back! – Robie H. Harris
Camping – Nancy Hundal
There’s Only One of Me! – Pat Hutchins
Go Track a Yak – Tony Johnston
Horace the Horrible: A Knight Meets His Match – Jackie French Koller
Impatient Pamela Wants a Bigger Family – Mary Koski
Pepita Finds Out – Ofelia Dumas Lachtman
The White Swan Express – Jean Davies Okimoto & Elaine M. Aoki
Moosekitos: A Moose Family Reunion – Margie Palatini
The Graves Family – Patricia Polacco
The Happy Hocky Family! – Lane Smith
The Happy Hocky Family Moves to the Country! – Lane Smith
My Somebody Special – Sarah Weeks
Big Day On the River – Sarah Wilson
Small Beauties: The Journey of Darcy Heart O’Hara – Elvira Woodruff
I, Doko: The Tale of a Basket – Ed Young

Nonfiction
In for Winter, Out for Spring – Arnold Adoff
Sol a Sol: Bilingual Poems – Lorie Marie Carlson
Molly's Family – Nancy Garden
Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, Brothers: A Collection of Family Poems – Mary Ann Hoberman
Invincible Vol. 1, Family Matters – Robert Kirkman
Here Comes Our Bride! An African Wedding Story – Ifeoma Onyefulu
Families: Poems Celebrating the African American Experience – Dorothy S. Strickland & Michael R. Strickland
I Am a Home Schooler – Julie Voetberg

titles last updated December 18, 2008

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