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How Tía Lola came to visit stay
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Julia Alvarez |
Although ten-year-old Miguel is at first embarrassed by his colorful aunt, Tia Lola, when she comes to Vermont from the Dominican Republic to stay with his mother, his sister, and him after his paren… |
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Eggs over Evie
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Alison Jackson |
Evie feels unsettled and sad after her parents divorce, her father remarries and takes the family dog, and new his wife becomes pregnant, but a cooking class and helping the elderly lady next door wi… |
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A day with Daddy
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Nikki Grimes |
A boy enjoys every moment of a special day with his father, as they play in the park, share french fries, and see a movie together. Includes activity ideas for parents and children. |
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The comeback challenge
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Matt Christopher |
Mark, center for his middle school's soccer team the Scorpions, must cope with his parents' divorce and a teammate who holds a grudge against him. |
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Hide and Seek
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Katy Grant |
After a summer cooped up in his family's store selling bait, tackle, and soft drinks to tourists, fourteen-year-old Chase finally gets a chance to go on his first solo geocaching adventure.
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Strider
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Beverly Cleary |
In a series of diary entries, Leigh tells how he comes to terms with his parents' divorce, acquires joint custody of an abandoned dog, and joins the track team at school. |
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Lexie
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Audrey Couloumbis |
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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Pink Smog
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Francesca Lia Block |
When Weetzie Bat is a thirteen-year-old junior high school outcast mourning the life her family lost when their cottage in the Los Angeles hills burned down, her father leaves her alcoholic mother wi… |
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Water balloon
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Audrey Vernick |
With her best friends pulling away from her, her newly-separated parents deciding she should spend the summer at her father's new home, and a babysitting job she does not want, Marley's life is alrea… |
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Pivot point
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Kasie West |
"A girl with the power to search alternate futures lives out six weeks of two different lives in alternating chapters. Both futures hold the potential for love and loss, and ultimately she is forced … |
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How Tia Lola learned to teach
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Julia Alvarez |
Juanita and Miguel's great aunt, Tía Lola, comes from the Dominican Republic to help take care of them after their parents divorce, and soon she is so involved in their small Vermont community that w… |
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The lost marble notebook of Forgotten Girl and Random Boy
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Marie Jaskulka |
Trying to escape their broken worlds, two teens fall in love with devastating results.
Forgotten Girl is going through the most difficult time of her life-- the breakup of her parents, and her mom's… |
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Coaster
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Betsy Duffey |
While secretly building a roller coaster in the woods, twelve-year-old Hart tries to come to terms with his parents' divorce and his mother's new relationship with a television weatherman. |
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The accidental adventures of India McAllister
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Charlotte Agell |
India, an unusual nine-and-a-half-year-old living in small-town Maine, has a series of adventures which bring her closer to her artist-mother, strengthen her friendship with a neighbor boy, and help … |
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Monday, Wednesday, and every other weekend
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Karen Stanton |
Although Henry enjoys the time he spends at his mother's apartment and his father's house, his dog Pomegranate gets confused about which place is home. |
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Katie Cox goes viral
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Marianne Levy |
Katie's life isn't exactly ideal. Her parents have just divorced, and she's living in a new apartment with her mom and older sister. Then, a recording of Katie singing at home goes viral, and she bec… |
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Subway love
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Nora Raleigh Baskin |
Struggling with her parent's divorce, Laura is unable to forget a boy she sees on a subway platform across from her, a photographer who is also wondering if he will ever see her again.
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Puppy Fat
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Morris Gleitzman |
Keith worries about his separated parents and wants to improve their appearance so they will find new partners, but he realizes that he cannot change them into different people. |
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On the day his daddy left
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Eric J. Adams |
On the day his father moves out of the house, Danny's teacher, friends, and family reassure him that his parents' divorce is not his fault. |
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If Daddy only knew me
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Lila Sprague McGinnis |
Curious about the father who left them years ago, five-year-old Kate and her older sister Glory make an expedition across town to view him at his new home where he has a new family. |
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