problem families

During the Civil War, Susan finds a way to help the Confederate Army and uncovers a series of mysterious family secrets.

Nomi Nickel explores her options in the Mennonite community her mother and sister have recently fled and rebels as her father withdraws.

Hannah Eaton, living with her wealthy mother and stepfather in Palm Beach, Florida, and neglected by her biological father, feels even more left out when her mother gives birth to a sickly baby boy; she makes a drastic decision to leave home and set out for New Orleans to pursue a singing career.

A guide to help adolescents deal with their parents' marital problems, their divorce, and its aftermath.

Five urban middle school students, their teacher, and other community members relate how a school project to build the world's largest tetrahedron affects the lives of everyone involved.

The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcohol father and distant mother and describes how she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found the resources and will to leave home.

In the wake of his parents' separation, ten-year-old Billy seems to have continual conflicts with his father, who is also his basketball coach, but his quiet, younger brother Ben, a piano prodigy, is having even more trouble adjusting, and only Billy seems to notice.

After being expelled from yet another school in London, twelve-year-old Scarlett is sent by her exasperated mother to live with her father, stepmother, and stepsister in Ireland, where, with the help of a mysterious boy, she eventually overcomes her anger and resentment and feels part of a family again.

In 1977, as twelve-year-old Theo struggles with a science class project on space exploration, questions emerge about why his father never returned from Vietnam and why Theo's mother has been keeping secrets for many years.

While coping with his parents' separation, eleven-year-old Skeet spends most of Spring Break in his skiff on a Florida river, where he finds a manatee shot to death and begins looking for the killer.