Middle-class family life in the 1950s brings to mind images of either smugly satisfied or miserably repressed nuclear families with breadwinning husbands, children, and housewives, much like the families depicted in "Ozzie and Harriet" and "Father Knows Best."
Jessica Weiss delves beneath these mythic images and paints a far more complex picture that reveals strong continuities between the baby boomers and their parents. Drawing on interviews with American couples from the 1950s to the 1980s, Weiss creates a dynamic portrait of family and social change in the postwar era. She pairs these...

Madisyn is a typical eight year old. It seems that she is always asking for something but today she wants a puppy. Well today is her day. Madisyn promises to take care of her puppy and be very careful to watch her at all times. Everything was going great until that one day. Madisyn took her eyes off of her puppy for one second and everything changed in one moment. Her puppy is missing. Will Madisyn ever find her puppy and will she ever be happy again? Let's read together and find out.