parent and child

Provides practical advice for improving family relationships, discussing parenting styles, cooperation, punishment versus discipline, building self-esteem, nurturing sibling relationships, and controlling anger.

Caught in a web of lies and believing that her father does not love her, fifteen-year-old Hannah hides her pregnancy from her parents, leaves her newborn baby on a church's steps, and tries to kill herself.

In 1928, Bessie's father takes her and her brother Eddie from their mother in North Carolina to live with their aunts in Harlem, and then her father mysteriously disappears.

A collection of stories from those who were adopted at birth and those who have found joy in parenthood through adoption.

Both Glory Bea Goode, who lives with her grandmother over a second-hand store in Turnback, Missouri, and Marvalene Zulig, who travels with her parents with Shuroffs' Spectacular carnival, are unhappy with their lives until their friendship gives them a new perspective.

Eleven-year-old Mia refuses to believe that her parents are not coming back after they're reported lost at sea.

Readers learn about some of the reasons that can cause a parent to lose his or her job, and how to help their families cope with change and the possibility of hard times.

Turning fourteen in 1946 brings several unwanted changes for Tessa as her long-standing friendship with a black boy is threatened and her parents' separation forces her to choose between living with her mother in the city or staying with her father in the Arkansas woods and hunting for Indian relics.

Fifteen-year-old Camilla gains new maturity through her relationship with her best friend's brother and the growing realization that her parents are fallible individuals.

A high school senior tries to cope with the shifting patterns of his life while struggling to come to terms with his parents' divorce, his best friend's sudden departure, his mother's remarriage, and his father's nearly-fatal accident.