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4) Lone wolf
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
When a large family moves into the house near where he and his father live in the woods, Perry's friendship with the oldest girl helps him come to terms with his sister's death and his parents' divorce.
6) Scooter
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
A child's silver blue scooter helps her to adjust to her new home.
9) Shadowfires
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Rachel is relieved to be almost divorced from her husband, only to see him killed before her eyes. But his body mysteriously disappears from the morgue and she has reason to suspect he will return to kill her.
13) Hugging the rock
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Through a series of poems, Rachel expresses her feelings about her parents' divorce, living without her mother, and her changing attitude towards her father.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Quinn has heard all her life about how untrustworthy men are, so when she discovers that her charismatic but selfish father, with whom she has recently begun to have a tentative relationship, has stolen from the many women in his life, she decides she must avenge this wrong.
15) Hatchet
Author
Publisher
Bradbury Press
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
16) Dear Mr. Henshaw
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
Description
In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.
17) Tessa
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Turning fourteen in 1946 brings several unwanted changes for Tessa as her long-standing friendship with a black boy is threatened and her parents' separation forces her to choose between living with her mother in the city or staying with her father in the Arkansas woods and hunting for Indian relics.
18) I, Amber Brown
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Because her divorced parents share joint custody of her, nine-year-old Amber suffers from lack of self-esteem and feels that she is a piece of jointly-owned property.
19) Rats saw God
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
In hopes of graduating, Steve York agrees to complete a hundred-page writing assignment which helps him to sort out his relationship with his famous astronaut father and the events that changed him from promising student to troubled teen.
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