Offers divorcing and remarrying parents practical advice on how they can help their children cope with the challenges of separation, divorce, and stepfamilies and help them feel at home no matter which house they are staying at.
"Ever since his mom died, Cole feels stuck. He just wants to graduate and leave his small, suffocating town. And everything is going according to plan--until Cole discovers the one secret that could keep him there...forever"--.
Fourteen-year-old Simon, living in the Cornish countryside with his young sister and widowed mother, tries to relieve the boredom of summer by indulging his obsessions with weapons and Leah, the girl across the street.
On Whidbey Island, Washington, fourteen-year-old Casey has two goals--to become an excellent basketball player like her mother was, and to find the hit-and-run driver who injured her and killed her mother nine years earlier.
As she describes all the things that are "uncool" about her father's latest girlfriend, a young girl begins to admit that there are some things she likes about her.
Alice's first year in high school gets off to a difficult start when she and her boyfriend Patrick break up, but with the help of her father, older brother, and best friends, she gains a better sense of her own self-worth.
Sixteen-year-old Carlos Duarte is on the verge of realizing his dream of becoming a famous make-up artist, but first he must face his jealous boss at a Macy's cosmetics counter, his sister's abusive boyfriend, and his crush on a punk-rocker classmate.
Through her freshman year of high school, fourteen-year-old Melissa struggles to hold on to memories of her deceased father, cope with her mother's return to dating, get along with her sister, and sort out her feelings about her best friend.
When she discovers that she has extra-sensory powers, fourteen-year-old Fiona finds it increasingly difficult to remain anonymous and lead a quiet trouble-free life, unnoticed by the school's bully.
Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it--an occasion to rise to.
