America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst the destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world that is utterly devastated.

In a trip back in time, Brann meets his father as a ten-year-old and learns for the first time to love and understand him.

Representing a pro football player whom his son admires brings a lawyer closer to his young son.

Little Critter engages in various imaginative activities while preparing for bed.

In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.

Seventh-grader Ryan is whisked from his world into a fantasy kingdom by an incompetent wizard trying to find the perfect color red, but the mistake may avert a crisis with a rebel warlock and help Ryan solve a problem with his own father.

Jeff's mother, who deserted the family years before, reenters his life and widens the gap between Jeff and his father, a gap that only truth, love, and friendship can heal.

Having been shuffled from one relative to another all his life, twelve-year-old Cady eventually finds acceptance and love in a foster home and an understanding of the father he has never known.

A father and his eighteen-year-old son are each affected differently by their experiences as slaves in Jamaica in the early nineteenth century.

Troubled because he cannot communicate better with his father, eleven-year-old Jonno finds unexpected help from a colorful Scottish bagpiper he meets while visiting Cape Cod.