Happy Families?

1. Celebration and security: My House, Annette Mbaye d'Erneville; An Overcrowded House, Adele Geras; Ramadan:Why Muslim Families Fast, Kiran Ansari; Family Forum: Our Family Mealtimes Are Battlegrounds, Guardain readers' letters; A Gentleman's Agreement, Elizabeth Jolley; My Parents, Adrian Mitchell; Forging a Family, Sue Palmer; A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens; The Trouble Was Meals, Elizabeth Bennett; Activities. 2. Conflict and confusion: Buried Treasure, Chris Buckton; A Parents' and Teenagers' Alphabet Book, David Crystal; Urgent Note to My Parents, Hiawyn Oram; One Small Step, Shyama Perera; Independence, Anne Frank; Getting the Messages, Anne Fine; Family Values, Richard Benson; She's Leaving Home, The Beatles; Romeo and Juliet, Act 3 Scene 5, William Shakespeare; Activities. 3. Change and uncertainty: Lost and Found, Rachel Anderson; A Family Photo, Lynette Craig; Two of Everything, Jackie Kay; Saturday Fathers, Kit and the Widow; New Families: the Experience of Divorce; The Ultimate Safari, Nadine Gordimer; Me a Mother at 15? No Way!, Jeremy Hart; The Sorrows of Sandra Saint, Lee Hall; Compass and Torch, Elizabeth Baines; An Ideal Family, Katherine Mansfield; Activities. 4. History and continuity: Two poems, Judith Nicholls; From the Grave to the Cradle, Hugh Cunningham and Michael Morpurgo; Little Brother, Mary Mann; Keeping Mum, Sarah Selvarajah; Oral Tradition, Carolyn Steele Agosta; When Ma and Pa Kept Control, Thea Thompson; The Kitchen, David Almond; Patterned Ways, Jo Hilton; Follower, Seamus Heaney; Heredity, Thomas Hardy; Activities; Notes on authors; Acknowledgements.