family relationships

The lives of twelve-year-old Lou and her younger brother, Oz, change forever in 1940 when an accident involving their parents results in their being uprooted from their New York City home and moved to live with their great-grandmother in the mountains of Virginia.

Provides facts about alcoholism and its impact on families, as well as treatment and recovery programs.

Suggests how to deal with physical and psychological problems when a parent has cancer.

Discusses the personal problems and social pressures experienced in stepfamilies and provides methods of coping with these pressures.

A guide for young girls on family-related issues that covers parents, siblings, and problem solving; and describes activities to build family memories. Features tear-out coupons.

A series of prose poems describes the author's life while she was growing up in Houston, Texas, from her eleventh birthday in 1965 through her eighteenth in 1972, and beyond.

Examines the effects of living in a single-parent family, discussing such topics as emotional aspects and economic factors.

Discusses the different types of stepfamilies, including ones with two divorced parents, a widowed parent, and one with gay parents. Also discusses the emotional cycle that teens can go through in learning to accept the new family and how the transition can be made easier.