Akron Public Library

Explore the big city with the Berenstain Bears by peeking under the flaps on each page and discovering an object or a character.

"Just about everything in Endora, Iowa (pop. 1,091 and dwindling) is eating Gilbert Grape, a twenty-four-year-old grocery clerk who dreams only of leaving. His enormous mother, once the town sweetheart, has been eating nonstop ever since her husband's suicide, and the floor beneath her TV chair is threatening to cave in. Gilbert's long-suffering older sister, Amy, still mourns the death of Elvis, and his knockout younger sister has become hooked on...

The Hecks tackle the beginning of a new school year, a not-so-relaxing Thanksgiving, and an unexpected wedding.