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Holding me here

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.
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Weekends with Max and his dad

2016
Third-grader Max pursues neighborhood adventures with his dad as they both adjust to recent changes in their family.
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The Landry News

A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result.
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Taking action against family breakups

An exploration of family breakups that provides information and personal accounts designed to reassure readers that broken homes are not necessarily negative and encourage discussion about related topics and feelings.

Interiors

Three adult sisters cope with their family's imminent dissolution when their father announces his separation from their mentally unbalanced mother.

How to build a house

a novel
Seventeen-year-old Harper Evans hopes to escape the effects of her father's divorce on her family and friendships by volunteering her summer to build a house in a small Tennessee town devastated by a tornado.

So much closer

Seventeen-year-old Brooke has a crush on Scott so big that when he heads for New York City, she moves into her estranged father's Greenwich Village apartment, but soon she begins to focus on knowing herself and finding her future path.

Jaded

Jade Morgan, who wants her parents to get back together, wrestles with her father and her boyfriend Terrence's strange behavior.

Marty's diary

Marty writes in her diary about her stepmother and her family life after a divorce.

Dear Mr. Henshaw

A homework pack that contains book and audio versions of "Dear Mr. Henshaw," a story told through letters in which ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world; and includes a student worksheet and teacher's guide.

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