parent and child

Presents a concise guide to talking with children and teens and provides advice on effective communication, clothing, peer pressure, curfews, and other issues that young people face.

Both Glory Bea Goode, who lives with her grandmother over a second-hand store in Turnback, Missouri, and Marvalene Zulig, who travels with her parents with Shuroffs' Spectacular carnival, are unhappy with their lives until their friendship gives them a new perspective.

Thirteen-year-old Annie wonders about her dream of becoming an astronaut as she faces various challenges and self-doubts, including changes in her relationship with her best friend, fights with her parents, and problems at school.

When he and his younger sister agree to help their wealthy, elderly neighbor care for the capuchin monkey that keeps getting away from her, Jimmy also helps the woman's troublesome granddaughter deal with secrets from her family's past.

A Korean American teenager tries to please her parents by getting into an Ivy League college, but a new guy in school and her love of the violin tempt her in new directions.

After their college psychologist father kills their artist mother, young Jenna and Jeremy struggle with the secret each of them keeps.

After her mother abandons her, fifteen-year-old Megumi tries to understand her father's need for his mistress while dealing with her own aching isolation.

A trip to Florida that is meant to heal the rift between her father and her grandmother forces both fifteen-year-old Miranda and her father to face feelings they have long suppressed.

Fourteen-year-old Eric, a ruthless hockey player prone to violence on the ice, tries to reconcile his own needs with those of his parents.

As she tries to enjoy her senior year and choose which college she will attend, Korean American Ellen Sung must deal with the prejudice of some of her classmates and pressure from her parents to get good grades.