family problems

Fifteen-years-old Tracy Berkowitz remains in the back of a city bus for two days with a blizzard outside. She has been searching for her little brother Sonny who imagines he's a dog. As she narrates her story she confronts the reader with a history of her broken home, parents she no longer trusts, and classmates who taunt her constantly.

Ellie, spending the summer with her aunt, is happy to escape the tense atmosphere in her own home, and when she finds a bandone?n, an instrument from Argentina, in her aunt's basement and goes in search of its original owner, she uncovers a story that helps her understand what has gone wrong in her family.

Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.

In her journal, chapters of the novel she is writing, and letters to a New York editor who has befriended her, a fifteen-year-old budding author reveals her journey of self-discovery in the midst of a dysfunctional family.

Twelve-year-old Peter has never felt at home with his noisy family, but begins to find the strength to live and to be himself when he discovers a special valley in the Texas Hill Country and meets Annie, a girl dying of cancer who knows and accepts him from the start.

Fourteen-year-old Robin tries to patch up the broken home of a battered wife and in the process discovers how deeply she's been hurt by the divorce of her own parents.

Billy Zeets, a 14-year-old semi-delinquent, begins to investigate when boys go missing and several butchered bodies show up in his town.

A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.

Darcey Willis does not know where to turn for help when a series of frightening incidents culminate with the disappearance of her sister Jamee.

Sereeta Prince, trying to cope with problems with her family, is blamed for a string of thefts at Tubman High School and starts to fall into a depression.