single-parent families

Tells the story of a single woman who goes to China to adopt a baby.

With their mother dead and their father working nights, Retta tries to be mother to her two young brothers.

A young boy shares with his mother his daydreams about the father who left before he was born.

All thirteen-year-old Raspberry can think of is making money so that she and her mother never have to worry about living on the streets again.

Creative, intelligent, nine-year-old Mina keeps a journal in her own disorderly way that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins homeschooling under the direction of her widowed mother.

An inquisitive young boy who lives with his mother and younger sister in a rough housing project in New Haven, Connecticut, approaches his tenth birthday with a mixture of anticipation and worry.

Since money is tight every Thursday, the day before his mother gets her paycheck, Andre is upset when he realizes his report card and the promised celebration for making the honor roll will come on a Thursday.

As her self-centered behavior spirals out of control, fourteen-year-old Alice gets an unusual chance to fix her whole disastrous life when she is mysteriously spirited back in time.

First eleven-year-old Megan is astonished when her mother insists on taking her and her younger brother up to the lake cottage a week before school is out; then they find mysterious strangers following them.

In 1956 Sweden, eleven-year-old Joel and his father, a logger who was once a sailor, live alone with their secrets, including Joel's secret society that meets at night and his father's new romantic interest.