intergenerational relations

Alice MacCauley's eleventh summer is shaped by new friendship, the twinges of first love, and adult lessons about life and death when she and Theo, a New York City boy of mixed race visiting his white New England grandparents, become the companions of Kenneth, an artist dying of and losing his eyesight to AIDS, reading him the journals of Lewis and Clark and building him a secret "rope walk" through the woods.

Examines the common problems and the stress associated with grandparents raising their grandchildren including basic information on government aid, custody suits, and special education programs.

Discusses drug abuse and alcoholism, how they may be passed from one generation to the next, and the problems they can cause in families.

Offers guidelines to families experiencing the dilemma of adolescent pregnancy and parenthood.

Presents a discussion of various issues pertaining to grandparents raising children, covering cultural variations and different benefits and challenges of the living situation.

Discusses issues involved when teenagers must move in with relatives because of the death of parents or problems in their families.

An important collection about intergenerational relationships, reflecting the special bonds between people who are separated by many years, but who are connected by warmth, understanding, and mutual appreciation.

Seventeen-year-old Josh Bell a soon-to-be high school graduate with no plans for the future, agrees to help eighty-four-year-old William Davis record his memoirs--a project that has lasting benefits for both men.

Rachael, whose mother is Danish and father is an African-American, loses both her parents and is forced to move to a new city to live with her strict African-American grandmother, but when she is immersed into an African-American community, her physical appearance draws attention and Rachel struggles with her own uncertainties about her identity.