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• The Narrow House (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1921), by Evelyn Scott (Gutenberg text)
• The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family's Progress (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1926), by Gertrude Stein (photocopy scan: page images at HathiTrust)
• The Making of Americans (first book version 1925; unclear if this edition depends on the 1934 version still under US copyright), by Gertrude Stein (HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Comedy, American Style (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1933), by Jessie Redmon Fauset (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black April (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1927), by Julia Peterkin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Garies and Their Friends, by Frank J. Webb, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text)
• The Hazeley Family (Philadelphia: American Baptist Pub. Society, c1894), by A. E. Johnson (Gutenberg text)
• Family of Destiny (New York: Pageant Press, c1954), by Charles L. Tarter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940), by Willa Cather (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Clotel, or The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (London: Partridge and Oakley, 1853), by William Wells Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Clotelle (Boston: J. Redpath, 1864), by William Wells Brown (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
• Clotelle, or, The Colored Heroine (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867), by William Wells Brown (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
• Clotelle, or The Colored Heroine, by William Wells Brown (Gutenberg text)
• The Sport of the Gods, by Paul Laurence Dunbar (Gutenberg text)

• The Ordeal of Mansart (The Black Flame, book 1; New York: Mainstream Publishers, 1957), by W. E. B. Du Bois (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (with annotations by the editor), by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, ed. by Brian Boyd (frame-dependent hypertext in New Zealand)

• Laddie: A True Blue Story (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1913), by Gene Stratton-Porter (multiple formats at Indiana)

• The Comings of Cousin Ann (Chicago: Reilly and Lee Co., c1923), by Emma Speed Sampson (Gutenberg text)

• Black and White Tangled Threads (printed with sequel, "Kenneth"; 1920), by Zara Wright (multiple formats at Google)

• Silas Bradford's Boy (c1928), by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia

• Downright Dencey (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1927), by Caroline Dale Snedeker, illust. by Maginel Wright Barney (page images at HathiTrust)

• Silas Kirkendown's Sons (Boston: C. M. Clark Pub. Co., 1908), by Margret Holmes Bates, illust. by R. Stebbins (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Who Owns the Family? God or the State? (Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press; Nashville et al.: T. Nelson, c1986), by Ray R. Sutton (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• Family in Society (1970), by Floyd Mansfield Martinson (HTML and PDF at ipce.info)
• Unequal Family Lives: Causes and Consequences in Europe and the Americas (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018), ed. by Naomi R. Cahn, June Carbone, Laurie Fields DeRose, and William Bradford Wilcox (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• The Managed Casualty: The Japanese-American Family in World War II (University of California Publications in Culture and Society v6; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1956), by Leonard Broom and John I. Kitsuse (page images at HathiTrust)

• Children and Youth at the Midcentury: Fact-Finding Report, Additional Digest Material (c1950), by Mid-century White House Conference on Children and Youth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Children and Youth at the Midcentury: Fact-Finding Report, Additional Digest Material (c1950), by Mid-century White House Conference on Children and Youth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Children and Youth at the Midcentury: Fact-Finding Report, Additional Digest Material (c1950), by Mid-century White House Conference on Children and Youth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Implementing Evidence-Based Prevention by Communities to Promote Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health in Children: Proceedings of a Workshop (Washington: National Academies Press, c2017), by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, contrib. by Steve Olson (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Effective Services for Young Children: Report of a Workshop, ed. by Lisbeth B. Schorr, Deborah Both, and Carol Copple (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Integrating Federal Statistics on Children: Report of a Workshop (1995), by National Research Council Committee on National Statistics (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Integrating Federal Statistics on Children: Report of a Workshop (1995), by National Research Council Committee on National Statistics (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Child Life in Colonial Days (New York and London: Macmillan, 1915), by Alice Morse Earle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Child Life in Colonial Days (New York and London: Macmillan, 1915), by Alice Morse Earle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• The Underground History of American Education (2003), by John Taylor Gatto (HTML at johntaylorgatto.com)
• Yesterday's Schools: A Looking Glass for Teachers of Today (Watkins Glen, NY: Century House, c1962), by Ruth S. Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Origins and Development of Elementary-School Science (Columbia doctoral dissertation; Chicago et al.: Scott, Foresman and Co., c1941), by Orra Ervin Underhill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Kids Count Data Book 2002: State Profiles of Child Well-Being, by Annie E. Casey Foundation (PDF files with commentary at aecf.org)

• Changing Places: How Communities Will Improve the Health of Boys of Color (Berkeley and Los Angeles: BerkeleyLaw, c2010), ed. by Christopher F. Edley and Jorge Ruiz-de-Velasco (PDF with commentary at escholarship.org)
• The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965; online version omits tables and graphs), by United States Department of Labor, contrib. by Daniel P. Moynihan (HTML at dol.gov)

• The American Child (1913), by Elizabeth McCracken (Gutenberg text)
• The American Child (Boston and New York: Houghton Miffin Co., 1913), by Elizabeth McCracken, illust. by Alice Austin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Work and Family: Policies for a Changing Work Force (Washington: National Academy Press, 1991), ed. by Marianne A. Ferber, Brigid O'Farrell, and LaRue Allen (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Drug Abuse Prevention Through Family Intervention, ed. by Rebecca Sager Ashery, Elizabeth B. Robertson, and Karol L. Kumpfer (PDF files at NIH)

• Making Policies for Children: A Study of the Federal Process (1982), ed. by Cheryl D. Hayes (page images with commentary at NAP)

• School-Linked Comprehensive Services for Children and Families: What We Know and What We Need to Know, by United States Department of Education and American Educational Research Association (HTML at ed.gov)

• Gender and American Jews: Patterns in Work, Education, and Family in Contemporary Life (Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, c2009), by Harriet Hartman and Moshe Hartman (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)
• Double or Nothing? Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage (Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, University Press of New England, c2004), by Sylvia Barack Fishman (page images and PDF at Brandeis)

• Read This Before Coming Out to Your Parents (c1995), by Tom Sauerman (HTML at bidstrup.com)

• Rebuilding Families, Reclaiming Lives: State Obligations to Children in Foster Care and Their Incarcerated Parents (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2006), by Patricia E. Allard and Lynn D. Lu (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)
• Caught in the Net: The Impact of Drug Policies on Women and Families (New York: ACLU; Brennan Center for Justice; Break the Chains, ca. 2005), by Lenora M. Lapidus, Namita Luthra, Anjuli Verma, Deborah Small, Patricia E. Allard, and Kirsten D. Levingston, contrib. by Andrea J. Ritchie (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)

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