single-parent family

Reluctant to see any changes in his life on Dove Island, eleven-year-old George tries to get rid of his father's new girlfriend.

Unhappy when her mother's former boyfriend forgets her birthday, a little girl is comforted by the loving attention of her mother and other relatives.

Relates, in verse, the excitement and joy of a young boy anticipating as well as celebrating Christmas in the city.

Fourteen-year-old Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with his divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white suburban neighborhood.

The summer before eighth grade, Alice tries to confront her fears, not the least of which is a fear of deep water.

In 1944 in West Virginia, ten-year-old Petey and his teenage one-eyed sister wonder if their widowed mother is going to marry her friend Stone, who is a veteran and an artist.

Examines the effects of living in a single-parent family, discussing such topics as emotional aspects and economic factors.

With their mother dead and their father working nights, Retta tries to be mother to her two young brothers.

A young girl and her brother stay with their grandmother while their mother works at night.

Sam Webber, forced to relocate with his mother after his father disappears, is fearful of the new neighborhood, his classmates, and the spector of his father's depression, but over the course of a year he makes friends and begins to heal.