single-parent families

Seventeen-year-old Steffie and her single mom, Barbie, have moved yet again after a married boyfriend of Barbie's left her, so when Steffie starts falling for the lifeguard at the country club where she has a summer job, she worries that she is becoming too much like her mother.

A fourteen-year-old's life with her single mother is complicated when an overly affectionate uncle comes to visit and she must deal with her feelings of guilt and enjoyment.

Fourteen-year-old Tree, resentful of her working mother who leaves her in charge of a retarded brother, encounters the ghost of her dead uncle and comes to a deeper understanding of her family's problems.

When Delilah, her mother, and her aunt spend the summer in Vermont settling Delilah's estranged grandmother's estate, long-held family secrets are painfully brought to light and Delilah finally learns some difficult truths about her family's past.

Twelve-year-old Henley dreams of finding with her Aunt Mercy the sense of home and belonging she has missed in her life of wandering with her restless mother Patti.

Told from their separate viewpoints, sixteen-year-old Aude inadvertently changes three gargoyles into teenaged boys leading her to explore, with a shaman's help, her Mohawk ancestry and a prophecy, while Guillaume struggles to live and love in modern-day Montreal after seventy years as a gargoyle.

When the classmate she is tutoring in trigonometry admits she is pregnant, high school junior Rhonda must finally come to terms with the abortion her father insisted she undergo three years earlier and examine how it has changed her life.

Fifteen-year-old Red's troubled relationship with his father, a policeman in a small Canadian community, acquires a new perspective when his best friend's long-missing mother suddenly returns.

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.

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