parent and child

Offers parents of eight- to twelve-year-olds advice on how they can effectively communicate with their child and lay the foundation for positive interactions throughout the teenage years.

After the death of his stepfather, fourteen-year-old P.B. Floyd moves with his mother from Oklahoma to the Oregon coast, where he makes friends with a beautiful young birdwatcher, gets a job at a marine aquarium, and adjusts to the possibility of a new stepfather.

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.

Laurie Lico Albanese recounts her childhood in a typical blue-collar neighborhood and describes how she escaped the cycle that almost destroyed her parents' lives. Presented in free verse form.

Fourteen-year-old Allison finds herself the center of a custody battle between her glamorous, but neglectful, movie star mother and her long-absent artist father who wants her to live with him in a small Oregon town.

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.

Josh Johnson creates the Dunces Anonymous club at his school as a way to escape his parents' ambitions for him, and, with the help of his fellow members, Josh manages to satisfy his parents' desire for him to join more extracurricular activities and finally feel like he is fitting in at his school.

Humorist Dave Barry presents more than one hundred musings on parenting teenagers, discussing such topics as his son's choices of music, his daughter's choices of clothing, driving lessons, and college orientation.

A child describes having two different houses in which to live, "my mother's house" and "my father's house, " and what it is like to travel back and forth between them.

Twelve-year-old Peter struggles to maintain his friendship with his tomboy classmate, Veronica, despite the opposition of their parents and the disapproval of his other friends.