family relationships

When the Harrelson's eldest child is killed in a car accident, her parents and siblings struggle to deal with their grief and adapt to their new family dynamic.

Contains eleven essays, each one co-authored by a literacy expert and a therapist, that provide information on how literature can be used to help troubled teenagers cope with various family problems.

A guide for parents with children ages ten through fifteen that discusses how parents can deal with the common problems children have as they go through early adolescence, including appearance anxiety, sibling rivalry, school problems, peer pressure, and sex.

Discusses the problems, frustrations, and anxieties encountered by the parents of a deaf child as they attempt to communicate with her and teach her to speak.

Twelve-year-old Andrea, whose parents have divorced and remarried, discusses the complexities of her new, larger family.

Steve Luxenberg shares the shocking secrets he uncovered about his mother's past after learning that she was not an only child, as she had always claimed, but instead had a mentally handicapped sister who was sent to an institution when the girls were in their twenties and discusses how his discoveries impacted his relationship with his mother.

Rumi Vasi, a gifted fourteen-year-old, feels trapped by her father's desire to make her the youngest student to attend Oxford University, her mother's longing to return to their native India, and her own dreams of being a normal teenage girl.

David Shields combines personal history with biological data about every stage of life to explore his life and try to find meaning in death and life.

A biographical novel of Vincent van Gogh's widowed sister-in-law who saved the painter's work from destruction and devoted her life to promoting them.

Presents the author's first-hand account of growing up in Mooreland, Indiana in the 1960s and 1970s, remembering her eventful family life and championing her mother's accomplishments with fondness.