parent and child

A reference guide for parents that discusses emotional, behavioral, and cognitive development in children from birth through preadolescence; includes information on day-to-day development, normal and abnormal behavior, finding professional help, and other related topics.

The author presents letters from children to her confiding their concerns with friendships, families, illness, sexuality, and other problems; and in return, Ms. Blume shares similar moments from her own life, both as a child and as a parent.

A Korean American teenager tries to please her parents by getting into an Ivy League college, but a new guy in school and her love of the violin tempt her in new directions.

When his parents call off the family vacation and enroll their son in a creative writing class instead, twelve-year-old Steve comes up with a wacky moneymaking project.

Steve "Sneeze" Wyatt attempts to thwart his parents' plan to have him skip eighth grade, but he has bigger problems when his friends disapprove of his new list and Mrs. "Fierce" Pierce threatens to keep him from the Invention Convention.

A guide to coping with the stresses and emotions arising after the death of a parent.

Not long after learning that he was adopted, eleven-year-old Peter is hit by a car and then given several chances to alter events that could lead to his death.

Resentful of her parents' divorce, a young girl tries to accommodate herself to their new lives and also find a place for herself.

When Sophie's father suddenly decides to divorce Sophie's mother and marry her sister Marley's college roommate, Sophie feels like she is trapped in an endless soap opera.

John and Irene, now divorced, living in different parts of the country, and dating other people, share a love for their spunky sixteen-year-old daughter, Sadie, but when tragedy strikes, the two are instantly brought back together.