As they wait out a tornado in their storm cellar, a family listens to their farmhand tell stories about the dog that was blown into his life by a

After attempting to save his exbabysitter from wife abuse, Cracker Jackson gains an adult insight into the sadness of failed heroics.

When Dorothy gets the part of Tarzan in the class play, her tremendous yell attracts the attention of increasingly larger and wilder animals.

When Dorothy gets the part of Tarzan in the class play, her tremendous yell attracts the attention of increasingly larger and wilder animals.

Convinced that Mud is responsible for the disappearance of the school hamster that was his responsibility for the weekend, Junior Blossom is dete

With their mother dead and their father working nights, Retta tries to be mother to her two younger brothers but somehow things just don't seem t

Ant and his brother play a game, discuss growing up, hear a scary noise, and learn to be friends.

Two boys make up a series of treasure hunts for each other, with disastrous and hilarious results.

In four separate stories, Ant's older brother gets rid of the monster under Ant's bed, forgives Ant for drawing on his homework, tries to read a

With a young brother in the hospital, a grandfather in jail, and their mother traveling with a rodeo, Maggie and Vern try to settle family proble

The Golly Sisters, May-May and Rose, share further adventures as they take their traveling show through the West.

A boy is puzzled by the comic and confusing questions of youth and worried by disturbing insights into adult conflicts.