Richard B. Pelzer, author of the childhood memoir "A Brother's Journey," continues his personal story, chronicling his teenage years and young adulthood during which he suffered his mother's emotional abuse and struggled to come to terms with her physical abuse of him and of his brother David when they were small.
Rosalind, a fourteen-year-old orphan, becomes the ward of her biological father after the tragic death of her gay mother, and struggles with the adjustment of getting to know a father she never knew.
Marea Hoffman returns to New York after wandering the world for seven years with the intention of starting her real life, but when she has trouble adjusting, she turns to her father's colleague and friend, the grandfatherly Albert Einstein.
Thirteen-year-old student Luke Jackson describes what it is like to live with asperger syndrome, offering a new perspective on bullying, friendships, the challenges associated with AS, problems at school, dating, and more.
Eccentric young chemist, Emilie Selden, lives in an eighteenth-century world that dismisses female accomplishments until an unexpected encounter with the temptations of the outside world lures her away from her home, her work, and her father.
Explains the common causes of a parent's job loss, the financial and emotional effects of unemployment on the family, expected changes in lifestyle, ways of coping and resources available, and the process of getting a new job.
The final entry in a trilogy of memoirs in which Dave Pelzer, brutally abused as a child, discusses the struggles he faced as an adult, and his determination to have a meaningful life.
