family problems

Sent by their father to live in the country with their grandparents after the sudden death of their mother, Molly's older sister Hannah expresses her grief in a raging rebellion while imaginative Molly finds herself increasingly distracted by visions, that seemingly only she can see, of a strange hunt in the nearby forest.

After the death of their mother, thirteen-year-old Serenity Evans and her younger brother go to live with their grandparents, who try to keep them safe from bad influences and help them come to terms with what has happened to their family.

After Yancy's older brother, Will, attacks and injures his horse, Yancy packs up his things and rides off into the desert. During his absence, Yancy begins thinking about the path his life is taking and decides that now is the perfect time to stand up for himself.

Now that Jake's parents have separated, he hopes he can still stay in a cabin with his dad by a lake. When they arrive at the cabin they discover it's shabby and the lake is very polluted. Then he meets a boy, Adrian, playing basketball really well but he has a difficult attitude and Jake's friendship with him disintegrates.

Told from their different points of view, sixteen-year-old Catherine and her adopted Mexican American brother, Henry, agonize over the loss of their uniquely close relationship when their prejudiced older brother and sister-in-law return after a family tragedy, determined to drive Henry away from the family's San Francisco home.

Three sisters growing up in post-World War II Sydney, Australia, deal with their mentally unstable father, their possibly unfaithful mother, and the defecting Russian spy who lives next door.

When her mother leaves her family suddenly to take a new job, fourteen-year-old Phoebe tries to deal with her own confused feelings and, in the process, learns some things about love and the complicated ties that bind families together.

Thirteen-year-old Maxine struggles to learn what is real when she begins receiving phone calls from someone claiming to be her runaway brother, Derek, who has just been declared dead.

Life in New York in the 1980s is made more difficult for a middle school girl by problems at home and at school.

After his mother's death, sixteen-year-old Ben Larsson and his long-absent father move to England in search of a new start, but a series of unexplained events leads Ben to a meeting with Wyliff, a Green Man living in the nearby woods who needs Ben to help him settle an escalating dispute in fairy world.