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Because his life is a bit of a mess, thirteen-year-old Danny Bell agrees to let ParentSwap(tm) try to match him with his ideal parents, but he soon realizes that the company is about more than giving adolescents a new start.

Offers an alternative approach to parenting that gives children the reallife skills needed for loving and successful lives.

Christopher Banks, an English boy who was orphaned after his parents disappeared in Shanghai under suspicious circumstances, returns to Shanghai twenty years later in the hopes of learning what really happened to his parents.

A memoir in which the author, barely out of college, discusses the unrelated deaths of his parents within months of one another, and tells how he came to take responsibility for his eight-year-old brother, while also working to create the satirical magazine "Might.".

William Bloom, desperate to get to know his dying father before it's too late, recreates his parent's life in a series of legends and myths based on the few facts he knows.

Liza Gold confronts one of her worst fears by going on a road trip across the country with her parents and two other crazy families, spending two months away from Sam and Mina, her best friends, but as the summer wears on, she receives a pleasant surprise.

Discusses the questions, fears, and fantasies many children experience when a parent or someone close to them dies.

Discusses typical feelings and incidents encountered by a child when a parent is seriously ill or hurt, as well as how it affects the entire family, and suggests ways to deal with such situations.

Eighteen young people ranging in age from seven to sixteen discuss the questions, fears, and bereavement they experienced when one of their parents died.

As the children of two world-famous explorers, eleven-year-old twins Celia and Oliver prefer television-watching to adventure-seeking until their father takes them to Tibet to help search for their long-lost mother.