parent and child

A little girl imagines different, exciting, and dangerous situations and is comforted by her parents' loving reassurance.

A practical guide for parents with preteen children with advice on improving communication, dealing with rebellion and peer pressure, handling sibling rivalry, and encouraging academic success.

Desperately unhappy and angry because her parents are constantly involved with their jobs, leaving her alone in their New York apartment with her grandmother, fourteen-year-old Jaimie longs for the opportunity to tell everyone how she really feels.

Examines the effects of parents and home experience on the life and behavior of young people, discussing such aspects as genetics, environment, learning, intelligence, moral attitudes, character building, friends, higher education, and job choices.

One hundred twenty-five short bits of advice, arranged in alphabetical order, to help teenagers get along with parents and teachers, under topical headings such as alcohol, anger, chores, grades, guilt, money, nagging, teasing, unfairness, and yelling.

Zee brews a pot of coffee to wake his parents so he can climb into bed with them, but after spilling two full mugs he has too little coffee left to do the job unless he can think of a new plan.

A bear tells its child some of the many reasons for the love that exists between them.

A parent promises to love and care for a child in every situation.

Star has gotten accustomed to hiding the pain she feels over the broken promises of her drunken mother and deadbeat father, but the death of her boyfriend puts her over the edge and lands her in a therapy group with three other girls who have reason to hate their parents.