single-parent family

Ten-year-old Angel finds plenty to worry about when she learns that her mother's new boyfriend is a clown.

Common sense advice for teens about special problems faced by one parent households.

An eleven-year-old girl describes her life and relationship with her mother who has never married.

Discusses the problems and adjustments involved in having only one parent in the family and what happens when that parent remarries, giving the child a stepfamily.

During the summer while she is on her own, eleven-year-old Heather forms a friendship with an old, reclusive man who spends his days tending his garden.

A little boy tells of his special relationship with his mother.

Starting a new school year, everything is "easy-peasy, simple-pimple" for Charlie until her strict teacher assigns a tough school project and Charlie's mother loses her job.

Ten-year-old twins Ruby and Garnet try to deal with the big changes in their lives when their father starts dating and they face the possibility of being separated.

Eighth-grader Alice has lots of questions about sex, relationships, prejudice, and change.

Two high school classmates, an aspiring actress and a young astronomer, struggle with the changes in their lives, unaware that these changes are leading them to each other.