Henry and Tess, once part of a quartet of college art majors who called themselves the Compassionate Dismantlers, find their lives unraveling when Suz, a member of the group who died ten years earlier during one the Dismantler's twisted experiments, seems to be haunting their daughter.
LGBT families and the transformation of parenthood
Ball, Carlos A
Provides a history of the legal challenges to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender adoptions of children, with personal anecdotes of individuals who have challenged the view that same-sex orientation renders individuals incapable of being good parents.
Twelve-year-old Emma-Rose Paley feels very different from her bubbly parents and thinks only her best friend understands her, but a visit from Emma-Rose's great-aunt from Romania leads her to believe she could be a vampire.
Spencer Plain's parents are prisoners of Pam, who runs an illegal ring of rare animal trading, and they are being held at the Hidden Rock Zoo, target of the next rescue mission the bears of Bearhaven are planning--but when the rescue starts to go wrong, and he and Aldo are cut off from the team, it will take some quick thinking and serious stealth to save the mission.
Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse.
Four comic stories about Patrick the little teddy bear, in which he finds a creative way to eat his vegetables, helps out around the house, takes a bath, and goes to bed.
Every family is different, and each household has its own rules. No one much likes having to follow them, but rules are a necessary part of life that everyone needs to learn to deal with. Teaches readers how to handle rules they don’t like and offers suggestions for how to deal with those with which they disagree. Readers will learn about dealing with rules about household chores, leisure time, rules for when they’re away from home, and handy strategies for getting along with their families.
Unhappy at home, Nancy and her friend Katie adopt punk lifestyles and find relief in cutting themselves, until Nancy is forced to confront her problems.
