A portrait of Pia

By Marisabina Russo

Subjects: Schools -- Fiction, Single-parent families, Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction, Single-parent families -- Fiction, Single-parent families -- Juvenile fiction, Interpersonal relations, Artists -- Fiction, Schools, fiction, Fiction, Artists -- Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Artists, fiction, Single-parent families, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Schools -- Juvenile fiction, Artists, Schools, Interpersonal relations, fiction, Interpersonal relations -- Fiction

Description: As childhood friendships change, her brother's schizophrenia worsens, and her mother's latest boyfriend seems likely to become her stepfather, twelve-year-old artist Pia Crossley tries to gain control of her life by contacting her father, who returned home to Italy before she was born.