parent and child

When ten-year-old Rayona's Native American mother enters a treatment facility, her estranged father, a Black man, finally introduces her to his side of the family, who are not at all what she expected.

Explains what Alateen is and how it can help teens with alcoholic parents.

A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.

Discusses the importance of fostering the qualities of resilience in children, and offers specific ideas and strategies designed to help parents raise strong, hopeful, optimistic children.

Joseph, left at home while his father goes to pick up his mother, lets his imagination run wild as he ponders his father's remark that things are going to change around their house.

Not knowing what else to do with their enormous son, four-year-old Horris's parents find him a job in a box factory, where he works hard and tries his best but still does not fit in.

A graphic novel in which a boy who wishes his parents would spend more time with him gets a visit from friendly space aliens, who offer to make him part of their family. Includes discussion questions and writing prompts.

Little Wolf and his brother Smellybreff get a lesson in Badness from Mom and Dad.

A young boy is sometimes so angry that he becomes a dragon, turning red, spitting out angry words, and destroying everything in his path, but later he turns back into a boy and can feel his parents' love again.