single-parent family

Eleven-year-old Arthur and his summer sitter help each other surmount difficulty.

When eleven-year-old Claudia, living alone with her mother, meets tough Danger Roth, the two girls start sharing strange dreams in which Claudia's missing father sends her cryptic messages.

Needing a father, a young boy tries to repair the broken relationship between his widowed mother and her friend Pete.

Three children try to adjust to a new life after their parents divorce.

When their family breaks up, Margery, her older sister, and their mother leave Atlanta for Hollywood and a new life among movie stars and the bohemian inhabitants of a theosophical colony. Sequel to "Whistle Down a Dark Lane.".

With her grandparents too busy to pay attention to her and her father traveling a lot, twelve-year-old Mouse is heavily dependent upon her brother T.J. until she befriends another misfit like herself.

When Pete's widowed mother starts dating Lily's divorced father, the two girls decide they need to control the situation.

Ten-year-old Angel finds plenty to worry about when she learns that her mother's new boyfriend is a clown.

While starring in a series of cliffhangers for Pathmark Studios during the summer of 1918, fifteen-year-old twins Fitz and Nelly Dalton uncover a German saboteur.

During her senior year amid all the complications of her mother's departure from the family and her involvement with her friends, course work, and swim team, Jenny is jolted into some stark realizations about herself and telling the truth.