Discusses the meaning of separation and divorce and some of the reasons that relationships come to an end. Also examines the effects that divorce and separation can have on people's lives.
Discusses ways of dealing with the breakup of romantic relationships including advice on how to face one's feelings, accept the change, get over the hurt, and move on with one's life.
Provides information for girls on how they might feel when a boy ends a relationship, and offers advice on how to deal with those feelings. Includes suggestions from girls who have experienced break-ups.
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
"A boy wakes up one morning to find his father gone. At first, he feels lost. But his father has left him a letter filled with advice to guide him through the times he cannot be there"--Provided by publisher.
Although tough-talking Harry Sue would like to start a life of crime in order to be "sent up" and find her incarcerated mother, she must first protect the children at her neglectful grandmother's home day care center and befriend a paralyzed boy.