Help! Bread machine recipes?

[Abinsmom]

I recently acquired a bread machine from Freecycle and have been enjoying using it to make whole wheat bread and pizza dough.

However, my bread (following the recipe in the user's manual) turns out really dense and heavy, and tends to be dry so that my kids don't want to eat sandwiches made from it.

Does anyone have any tips or maybe other recipes to make a fluffier whole wheat bread? I've never been good at baking or making anything with yeast, so the bread machine has saved me the trouble of guessing how to make dough rise, etc., but the end result isn't quite what my family likes.

Any tips are helpful -- thanks!