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Casey and the Great Idea Casey and the Great Idea Joan Lowery Nixon When Casey, an ardent 12-year-old feminist, sets out to help victims of discrimination, whether they want her help or not, she finds her ideas don't always work as planned. OL137765W
I want answers and a parachute I want answers and a parachute P. J. Petersen,Anna DiVito Matt finds his little brother's fears very annoying when they travel from Tucson to San Francisco to visit their divorced father. OL15105094W
Hide and Seek Hide and Seek 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. Using … OL15166772W
Dear Mr. Henshaw Dear Mr. Henshaw Beverly Cleary Dear Mr. Henshaw is a juvenile epistolary novel by Beverly Cleary and illustrator Paul O. Zelinsky that was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1984. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Asso… OL151997W
Excellent Emma Excellent Emma Sally Warner When the third-graders compete in the first annual winter games, Emma feels that she must win in order to prove to her father, who is divorced from her mother and lives in England with his new wife, … OL15211174W
Lexie Lexie 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. OL15473120W
Amelia vs. the sneeze barf Amelia vs. the sneeze barf Jimmy Gownley After her parents divorce, Amelia and her mother move a new town where Amelia and her new friends pretend to be superheroes in an attempt to stop the neighborhood bullies. OL15631913W
Pink Smog Pink Smog 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… OL15941416W
Believe Your Eyes Believe Your Eyes Cori Doerrfeld,Tyler Page A lot is changing for Cici. Her parents are separating, her wacky abuela is moving in, and on her tenth birthday, she wakes up with fairy wings! Cici's new magical powers let her see people as they t… OL17342491W
Homesick Homesick Kate Klise Benny's parents are getting divorced, his mom left and his father has become a hoarder, to make matters worse his hometown has been entered into a contest, and now the pressure is on to get the house… OL17913433W
The lost marble notebook of Forgotten Girl and Random Boy The lost marble notebook of Forgotten Girl and Random Boy 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… OL17932389W
Highland fling Highland fling Kathleen Ernst Having moved to North Carolina with her mother and sister following her parents' divorce, fifteen-year-old Tanya tries to ignore her anger at her family while also making some unexpected connections … OL18241267W
Coaster Coaster 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. OL1872704W
The accidental adventures of India McAllister The accidental adventures of India McAllister 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 … OL1980286W
Go and Catch a Flying Fish Go and Catch a Flying Fish Mary Stolz Taylor, Jem, and B. J. each react differently to the breakup of their parents' marriage. OL2040561W
In real life In real life Lawrence Tabak Fifteen-year-old math prodigy Seth Gordon hopes to compete professionally playing Starfare, the world's most popular computer game, but when he gets the chance to move to Korea and train full-time, h… OL20915671W
Yours truly Yours truly Judie Angell Upset and angry that her mother has separated from her drug addict father and may divorce him, Nicki spends her early teen years dropping in and out of school and trying to find a life for herself. OL2438969W
Pig-Out Inn Pig-Out Inn Lois Ruby FAMILY & HOME STORIES (CHILDREN'S / TEENAGE). In a new town, Dovi s family befriends a young boy who was abandoned at their restaurant Dovi Chandler collects yearbooks. She has them from all over the… OL24892463W
Next stop, nowhere Next stop, nowhere Sheila Solomon Klass When her mother remarries, fourteen-year-old Beth has to leave her familiar life in New York City and her new friend Josef to go live with her artisan father in Vermont. OL2914876W
My mother's house, my father's house My mother's house, my father's house C. B. Christiansen A child describes having two different houses in which to live, "my mother's house" and "my father's house," and what it is like to travel back and forth between them. OL2971061W
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