Bill is an intensely competitive boy who thinks "winning is the only thing that really counts." He can't understand w...

It's a mighty good day for showing how you feel, and Nick, Brice, and Richard do just that. As the three friends leav...

In a fantastic dream a boy named Edgar is visited by the "Professor of Anatomy" and his animated chart of the human b...

In interwoven stories Debbie and Bobby must each deal with situations that try their growing sense of independence. D...

Larry Billups has come to the hard decision that he must move his family from the country neighborhood where they hav...

Although David is really more mischievous than malicious, his idea of amusing himself is playing jokes on others. On ...

Matched against each other in hockey, Mark and Jean-Pierre collide on the ice, and Mark charges in sudden anger that ...

Eddie's parents are so angrily involved in their own conflicts that they neglect him emotionally and verbally abuse h...

Jeff 's home is in the mountain country of the West. An only child, he is separated by long distances from his school...

Captain Selmore, the host of a T.V. cartoon show, is up to his usual tricks, He's making a frantic sales pitch to his...

Lisa's class is on a field trip to a Civil War fort. As the children inspect the fort and the park that surrounds it,...

Dorothy Smith works for the Cuyahoga County Welfare Department in Cleveland, Ohio. She works at home, for her job is ...

Dotty and her friend Betty are practicing somersaults, but Betty can't quite get the hang of it. Dotty's older sister...

Becky's parents are separated, uncertain of what will become of their marriage and their lives. On the day that her f...

Susan has been painting a water-color portrait of her family, which she is eager to give to her father the moment he ...

David wants to go to t horror movie with his friends, but admits in embarrassment, "My mother won't let me." The boys...

Remembering what he was like as a boy, David wistfully recalls the crush he had on his teacher, Miss Simpson. "I thou...

In an imaginary courtroom scene, Patricia is demanding her rights as a nine-year-old, accusing the rest of the Michae...

Karen and Roger disagree about how much or how little help people really need, and Pete just doesn't know one way or ...

Adrian is a new boy in the school, and an outstanding student. Frankie, who is not good at school work, increasingly ...

Becky and Laura are whispering in class about their ice-skating lessons later that afternoon, but the conversation is...

Amador and his family are moving from Puerto Rico to Washington, D.C., and his parents have sent him on ahead by plan...

The world of Donna Pugh is different, but not strange. Because she is blind, Donna has to learn to be herself as well...

"You are a part of all that you see" is the theme of a visual essay that explores the vital connections between human...

Kevin has always taken the run-down city neighborhood where he lives pretty much for granted. His attitudes start to ...

Linda comes home from school to find her parents saddened and subdued. They tell her that her grandmother, who had su...

Clarissa, a new girl in the neighborhood, wants to join the "gang." To be accepted as a member, she must carry out a ...

At summer camp in the mountains nine-year-old David insists that he is ready to go out on his own for an "overnight" ...

Setting off for the beach, Chuck and his sister Jean go their own ways. She goes there directly, eager to enjoy the w...

A construction worker comes across several children scrapping in a vacant lot and makes them tell how it all began. T...