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Series
Max Leroy trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Third-grader Max pursues neighborhood adventures with his dad as they both adjust to recent changes in their family.
43) My mom's wedding
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Pinkie has mixed feelings about her divorced mother's wedding especially when she learns that her beloved father will be an attending guest.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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After Lacey Terwilliger receives a bouquet of flowers meant for her husband's mistress, she sends a scathing e-mail about his affair to everyone they know. She retreats to a family cabin, and has to deal with Monroe, an aggravating neighbor.
45) Dear Mr. Henshaw
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Language
English
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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.
49) Two homes
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A young boy named Alex enjoys the homes of both of his parents who live apart but love Alex very much.
50) A woman's place
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After becoming the real breadwinner in her family, Claire receives divorce papers from her husband Dennis and finds herself in a custody battle for her children.
51) Candyfloss
Author
Language
English
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Description
When her mother plans to move to Australia with her new husband and baby, Floss must decide whether her loyalties lie with her mother or her father, while at the same time, her best friend begins to make fun of her and reject her.
53) The Landry News
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Language
English
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Description
A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result.
Author
Series
Amber Brown volume 6
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
The year that she is in the fourth grade is a difficult one for Amber, as she tries to deal with escalating telephone fights between her divorced parents and her father's impending return to take joint custody of her.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Devastated when her parents separate, twelve-year-old Rebecca must move with her mother from Baltimore to Gran's house in Atlanta, where Rebecca discovers an old breadbox with the power to grant any wish--so long as the wished-for thing fits in the breadbox.
56) Lexie
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Lexie goes with her father to the beach for a week, she is surprised to find that he has invited his girlfriend and her two sons to join them for the entire week.
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English
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Ever since her mother left, Maia's struggled with depression, which has only gotten worse since her father remarried. So she decides run away to Canada to find her mother, together with Billy, a boy who now lives in a group home and has his own family tragedy. But when they finally arrive in Tadoussac, Quebec, Maia discovers that her mother has been keeping secrets.
59) Bird Lake moon
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Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Mitch and his mother are spending the summer with his grandparents at Bird Lake after his parents separate, and ten-year-old Spencer and his family have returned to the lake where Spencer's little brother drowned long ago, and as the boys become friends and spend time together, each of them begins to heal.
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