single parents

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Youth coping with teen pregnancy

growing up fast
2008
Tells the fictional story of Holly, a teenager who finds out she is pregnant and struggles with the decision of what to do, and includes information about prenatal care, labor, and parenthood.

Lullabies for little criminals

a novel
2006
Thirteen-year-old Baby feels torn between her childhood and the adult life she lives on the streets, and when a local pimp tries to coerce Baby into prostitution, she finds herself caught in a volatile situation even her heroin-addicted father can't ignore.

Smitten

2006
Hired as a construction worker by the virile Matt Hallahan, single mom Lizabeth Kane finds herself falling in love with her boss, in spite of their many differences.

All over creation

2003
Single mother Yumi Fuller returns home after a twenty-five-year absense to care for her ailing parents and walks into the middle of a clash between her parents' neighbors who are experimenting with growing genetically altered potatoes, and an environmentalist group, the Seeds of Resistance, who believe the elderly Fullers hold the key to propagating plant life on Earth.

In praise of single parents

mothers and fathers embracing the challenge
1994

Lucky strike

2005
Young widow Jean Waterman finds friendship, love, and hope for the future when she leaves Ohio in 1954 and heads to Idaho with her two children, looking to strike it rich in uranium mining, and to give her chronically ill son a chance at adventure.

Hand me down

a novel
2012
Separated from the sister she has been protecting from their irresponsible parents, fourteen-year-old Liz is forced to rely on distant relatives and forges a pact with a deceitful adult who compels her to keep a painful secret.

Americans in space

2009
Thirty-six-year-old Kate Cavanaugh, a mother of two and recently widowed, works as a guidance counselor for the at-risk students at Alan B. Shepard High School, but amidst the troubles that haunt Kate at home, tragedy strikes at school and forces her to reach her breaking point.

Ghost ? la mode

a ghost of granny apples mystery
2009
Clairvoyant Emma Whitecastle is visited by the ghost of her great-great-great-grandmother, who was lynched for the murder of her husband, and sets out to clear the woman's name.

Inside out girl

a novel
2008
"Perfect Parent" magazine publisher Rachel Berman, the overprotective single mother of a rebellious teenage girl and twelve-year-old boy, finds her life turned upside down when she begins dating widowed lawyer Len Bean, the father of Olivia, a ten-year-old girl with an odd learning disability.

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