single-parent families

Eleven-year-old Chester and his classmate Skye, tasked with a complex puzzle-solving mission, discover the key to their spy assignment is to stop a heist, but cracking the code could mean finding out things are not always what they seem.

"In the summer of 1972, three girls from very different backgrounds struggle to come to terms with being pregnant"--Provided by publisher.

With a mother struggling with anxiety, a father who recently moved out, and no siblings to commiserate with, socially awkward Violet Crane feels like she is starting middle school with less going for herself than that of your average kid.

"Zeus, a German shepherd, is assigned to Madden as a diabetic alert dog and must help him navigate middle school"--Provided by publisher.

When almost-nine-year-old Carson Blum and his father move to Northern California, he is worried about adjusting to his new, large, public school and finding friends.

The Grace children discover a field guide to fairies in their Great Aunt Lucinda's old Victorian house that sends them on a fantastic journey into a world of elves, dwarves, and trolls.

Mallory and Jared attempt to rescue Simon from goblins using a magical stone which enables them to see things that are normally invisible.

From taking her to school to making her food to doing her laundry, Riley Henderson's brother Devin has always been there for her, but now he's in California attending a prestigious college gaming program, and Riley is stuck alone in Florida with her single mom. Fortunately, things start to look up when she befriends her new neighbor Lucy, and the girls learn they both love Dungeons & Dragons. When Lucy asks her to run a campaign, Riley isn't sure since her brother had always been the Dungeon Master, but she decides to give it a shot. The girls invite their neighbors, Hannah and Jen, to join them, and Riley starts to get the hang of things from being Dungeon Master to making her own snacks and dinner. But when Devin runs into trouble with his program and returns home, Riley realizes that she has flourished without her brother and that they both need to be more independent.

An autistic nonbinary eighteen-year-old moves to a new town and school with the support of their loving father and finds friends in an LGBTQ-plus club, but they all must come together to solve the decades-old murder of a teenage boy and confront the demons lurking in Sam's past.

"Mackenzie Miler has big goals. For instance, conquering seventh grade--with projects. There's the Mom Project (finding her mom a boyfriend--even if she says she's not interested), the Friend project (win back the BFFs who dumped her and make a new friend), and the Band project (so what if she's never planned a fundraiser? How hard can it be?) . . . She can do it all, can't she? Or do her big goals require something more--like a little help from her friends?"--Provided by publisher.