Different can be great! Makayla is visiting friends in her neighborhood. She sees how each family is different. Some families have lots of children, but others have none. Some friends live with grandparents or have two dads or have parents who are divorced. How is her own family like the others? What makes each one great? This diverse cast allows readers to compare and contrast families in multiple ways.

This story is about sharing important life events like getting glasses, moving, and going to a family reunion.

Families all around the world share some commonalities and some differences. This book from Macmillan Young Library (MYL) provides simple information exploring how they are the same and how they are different.Read about: Different types of family stories How family stories are passed from one person to anotherHow a familys history and traditions are told through its storiesContents:FamiliesFamily storiesInheriting family treasuresFamily historyFamily traditionsLong-time traditions

My grandfather came from the Island of Barbados with his mother, brothers, and sisters to Tobago in about 1890. They established themselves in their new home, but no one alive today seems to be able to make any connection with our Barbados relatives, which for a very long time had been my desire. My father had told me some stories that I wanted to share with some of my relatives and began to do so as attachments to e-mails. Those relatives enjoyed them and kept asking me for more. I included some stories of my own that I recalled from growing up in Tobago. This book is a compilation of fifty stories about my family that I want to share with you. I hope that you, too, would enjoy them. Some of the conversations in some of the stories were written in dialect to retain a Caribbean flavor. Caribbean readers should have no problem following what was said, but for those who are unfamiliar with the way the ordinary island person speaks, I have included a key at the end of the book to help you understand what was being said.

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Different can be great! Makayla is visiting friends in her neighborhood. She sees how each family is different. Some families have lots of children, but others have none. Some friends live with grandparents or have two dads or have parents who are divorced. How is her own family like the others? What makes each one great? This diverse cast allows readers to compare and contrast families in multiple ways.

"Our Family Story" is an illustrated book meant to be shared with an elderly person you love. This story is filled with love and spans generations, telling of people whose struggle growing up during the Great Depression made them stronger, and taught them to appreciate the sweeter, simpler things of life. It is the story of children growing up when life was lived at a slower pace and families enjoyed spending time with each other. Enjoy it with someone you love!