"Everyone else knows the truth about you, now you can know it, too. That's the slogan. The product: a junky contraption that tattoos personalized revelations on its users' forearms. It's an old con, playing on the fear that we are obvious to everybody except ourselves. This particular one's been circulating New York since the 1960s. The ad works. And, oddly enough, so might the device ... A small stream of city dwellers buy into this cult of the epiphany...

Ethan learns about the Hunter's Code while on his first hunting trip with his father.

"Members of the Bear family try to solve their problems without playing the blame game or arguing over who is responsible for every disaster."--Title page verso.

Henry is a good helper and can even help with dinner.

Henry is a good helper and can even help with his new baby sister.

Sisters Emma and Olivia learn about the responsibilities of taking care of a pet when their guinea pig starts to smell after they forget to clean her cage.

"Meet The Adults. Claire and Matt are no longer together but decide what's best for their daughter Scarlett is to have a "normal" family Christmas. They can't agree on whose idea it was to go to the Happy Forest Holiday park , or who said they should bring their new partners. But someone did--and it's too late to pull the plug. Claire brings her new boyfriend Patrick (never Pat), a seemingly sensible, eligible from a distance, Iron-Man-in-Waiting....

Henry is a good helper and he can even help with his dog, Toby.

When Lucy, a young bear, discovers a boy lost in the woods, she asks her mother if she can have him as a pet, only to find him impossible to train.

"Dogs can be great pets, but taking care of them is a lot of work. The young princess in this book gets a dog before learning all the work that being a pet owner requires. Readers follow the princess on her journey with the dog"--Amazon.com.