On the eve of her twelfth birthday, Cora convinces herself that the father she has never known is on his way to see her.

Slim watches over her father, a disarmingly charismatic man, as his struggle with AIDS reaches its climax.

In 1849, a fourteen-year-old Amish girl defies convention by leaving her secure home in Pennsylvania to accompany her father across the continent by wagon train.

On the hot Texas army base she calls home, Kate struggles to grow up and understand her often violent father.

On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.

A school project propels Brady Abbot and her grandfather on a search for her father who left them six years earlier.

Even though her photographer father urges her to try a more practical form of art, a young artist in turn-of-the-century Paris finds that her talent for drawing can be useful.

Eleven-year-old cousins Linny and Hilary find themselves transported back to their old Brooklyn neighborhood to a time just before Linny's mother died and Hilary's father left home.

Spunky eleven-year-old Charlie hopes to understand her rigid father by finding out everything she can about the Vietnam War, the war that let him survive but killed his dreams.

Katie, still mourning the death of her much-loved mother, is further upset when she must leave her friends to move with her father to Missouri, but then she meets Jimmy, a handsome, decent, married man, and learns about the joys and pain of first love.