parent and child

While riding the bus, Claire helps the driver, her father, and meets her mother during the trip.

"Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call about the escalating brutality in her home. When social services jeopardize her safety condemning her to keep her father's secret, it's a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she's been hiding. In her pursuit for safety and justice Brooke battles a broken system that pushes to keep her father in the home. When jury members and a love interest congregate to inspire her to fight, she risks losing the support of family and comes to the realization that some people simply do not want to be saved"--Back cover.

Parents panic when the Internet goes down but their child reminds them that there are other very pleasant ways to spend their time.

Dedicated slacker Cameron Boxer thinks he has found gamer heaven: playing video games online for an audience (and money); but the Positive Action Group (the club he created to keep his parents off his back) keeps getting in the way with meetings and fund-raisers for worthy causes, and his friends keep turning to him for plans and girlfriend advice, plus Elvis the beaver is back chewing on the back wall--and all Cameron wants to do is to conquer the infamous level 13.

Twelve-year-old Matt Baker is the best all-rounder on his baseball team, but can he help Big Ben Roberson improve his hitting and stand up to his father?.

". . . a guide that includes 500 diverse contemporary fiction and memoir recommendations for preteens and teens with the goal of inspiring greater empathy for themselves, their peers, and the world around them . . . Each chapter explores a particular issue affecting preteens and teens today and includes a list of recommended related books . . . Recommendations are grouped by age: those appropriate for middle-grade readers and those for teens. Reading lists are organized around: adoption and foster care, body image, immigration, learning challenges, LGBTQIA+ youth, mental health, nature and environmentalism, physical disability, poverty and homelessness, race and ethnicity, and religion and spirituality"--Provided by publisher.

Desperate to show his parents that he can be responsible, Hank believes roughing it on the school camping trip will be the perfect opportunity to prove himself. But he didn't count on being partnered with his nemesis, McKelty, or being in a leaky tent in a field full of cow pies.

A guide on how parents can find more happiness in their family life by experiencing joy.

The author suggests that the parent-child relationship would be better served if changed from a parent-to-child focus to a parent-with-child focus, allowing the parent to learn along with the child and achieve spiritual awakening.

An abandoned doll, who seems to be a perfect child, can't compare with a toad's own beloved, but imperfect daughter.