Brothers and Sisters

After frantically trying to stop his out of control robot from turning everything it touches into metal, Kyle finally listens to his little sister's advice. JE Fic Gri

The one-year-old orphan of accident victims becomes the focus of a conflict between her uncle and her grandparents who differ on who will raise the little girl, and how. (Catalog summary)

Laura Bartone anticipates her annual family reunion in Minnesota with a mixture of excitement and wariness. Yet this year’s gathering will prove to be much more trying than either she or her siblings imagined. As soon as she arrives, Laura realizes that something is not right with her sister. Forever wrapped up in events of long ago, Caroline is the family’s restless black sheep. When Caroline confronts Laura and their brother, Steve, with devastating allegations about their mother, the three have a difficult time reconciling their varying experiences in the same house. But a sudden misfortune will lead them all to face the past, their own culpability, and their common need for love and forgiveness. (From the catalog summary)

Max is glad his mother brings home a baby sister, but he begins to get impatient as he spends a whole year trying to teach her to talk. JE Fic Zie.

Just before the beginning of World War I, eight-year-old Ruthie, who lives with her parents and six brothers on a farm in Indiana, wishes for a sister and tries to behave like the lady her mother wants her to be. J Fic Bra

As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899. J Fic Hol

The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century. J Fic Bri