single-parent family

Discusses the problems and adjustments involved when a single parent remarries, thus creating a stepfamily.

Ninth-grader Andy's quiet life with his father and cat above their Manhattan restaurant is threatened when his father falls in love and their restaurant is "discovered, " bringing the Mafia in for a cut of the increasing business.

Two high school classmates--an aspiring actress and a young astronomer--struggle with the changes in their lives, unaware that these changes are leading them to each other.

After her mother leaves them, nine-year-old Livvy struggles to understand and forgive as her father loses his job and takes her and her younger brother to live in a shelter for homeless people.

Three children move to Oregon to live with their recently divorced father and discover that their house seems to be haunted.

Kitty is not pleased with her mother's boyfriend, especially his views on the anti-nuclear issue, until unexpected events prompt her, after all, to help him find his place in the family.

First, eleven-year-old Megan is astonished when her mother insists on taking her and her younger brother up to the lake cottage a week before school is out; then they find mysterious strangers following them.

In the absence of his father, a boy imagines himself as a knight protecting his mother and sister in their castle, a big-city apartment.

When eleven-year-old Robby takes drastic steps to stop his widowered father from developing a new love interest, his friend Beth has to step in and help him come to terms with the situation.

Eleven-year-old Jasmyn gets a different perspective on life when her mother is sent to Saudi Arabia at the beginning of the Persian Gulf War, leaving her and her baby half brother behind in Maine in the care of her mother's boyfriend.