Presents support and guidance for children dealing with their parents' divorce through the words of young people who have experienced it, discussing emotions, adjustment, dating, remarriage, and new families.
When eight-year-old Jamie becomes almost possessed by a lion he encountered in a wild animal park, his blended family, especially his cat-loving older brother Josh, struggles to connect with the boy they love.
James Hallowell and the new kids at school all seem to share an unusual alliance: they already know each other, remain in school until after dark, and share a deep and mysterious kind of secret.
After fifteen-year-old Ginger runs into a photographer in the park, Ginger begins to think the man--who has taken a mysteriously keen interest in her younger stepsister--is her biological father, who walked out on Ginger when she was three.
Nick tries to maintain his sense of integrity as he works to succeed on the school basketball team, adjust to his new stepmother and little "dorky" stepbrother, and deal with peer pressure from his friends.
Jane, Buzz, Carter, and Vanessa, aged nine to thirteen, are on a sailing trip in the South Pacific intended to help them bond in their newly-blended family when a massive storm strands them on a deserted island.
Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle.
