Follow

• 

  Coping as a Foster Child

  Geraldine M. Blomquist and Paul B. Blomquist

  A discussion of ways to make living with foster parents and living in a foster home a better experience.

• 

  Coping When a Parent is in Jail

  John J. La Valle

  This book discusses problems that are common to children who have incarcerated parents.

• 

  David Blaine: Illusionist and Endurance Artist

  Chuck Bednar

  A look at the life and career of the famous magician.

• 

  Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division

  Jon Ginoli

  Set against the changing decades of music, we follow the band from their inception in San Francisco, to their search for a music label and a permanent drummer to their current status as indie rock icons. We see the highs―touring with Green Day―and the lows―homophobic fans―of striving for acceptance and success in the world of rock.

• 

  Derek Jeter: All-Star Major League Baseball Player

  Chuck Bednar

  A look at the life and career of the famous baseball player.

• 

  Divorce and Children

  Maria L. Howell

  Explores the issues surrounding divorce and children. Presents diversity of opinion on the topic, including both conservative and liberal points of view in an even balance.

• 

  Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

  Barack Obama

  In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father, a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey, first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.

• 

  Dumbfounded: Big Money. Big Hair. Big Problems. Or Why Having It All Isn't for Sissies.

  Matt Rothschild

  The author describes growing up under the care of his grandmother after his mother left him for Italy and her fourth husband, and his struggle to fit into the genteel world of Upper East Side Manhattan and his eccentric and dysfunctional family.

• 

  Esperanza Rising

  Pam Munoz Ryan

  Esperanza thought she'd always live with her family on their ranch in Mexico--she'd always have fancy dresses, a beautiful home, and servants. But a sudden tragedy forces Esperanza and Mama to flee to California during the Great Depression, and to settle in a camp for Mexican farm workers. Esperanza isn't ready for the hard labor, financial struggles, or lack of acceptance she now faces. When their new life is threatened, Esperanza must find a way to rise above her difficult circumstances--Mama's life, and her own, depend on it.

• 

  Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea

  Sungju Lee and Susan McClelland

  The memoir of a boy named Sungju who grew up in North Korea and, at the age of twelve, was forced to live on the streets and fend for himself after his parents disappeared. Finally, after years of being homeless and living with a gang, Sungju is reunited with his maternal grandparents and, eventually, his father.

• 

  Everything You Need to Know about Being a Biracial / Biethnic Teen

  Renea D. Nash

  This book for children and teenagers discusses what it means to be biracial or biethnic and what it means to find one's own identity.

• 

  Everything You Need to Know about Living in a Foster Home

  Joe Falke

  Gives examples of teenagers who have been sent to live with foster families, detailing some of the reasons for needing foster care, what to expect, and how to make the necessary adjustments.

• 

  Extraordinary People with Disabilities

  Deborah Kent and Kathryn A. Quinlan

  Profiles seven dozen people throughout history with various physiccal or mental disabilities.

• 

  Families of Value: Gay and Lesbian Parents and Their Children Speak Out

  Jane Drucker

  Drawing upon stories by and about nearly two dozen families in which gay fathers and lesbian mothers are raising children in a wide variety of settings and styles, the author defines the meaning of family and discusses concerns such as interpersonal relationships, sexual and psychological development, coming out, facing prejudice, and finding a spiritual foundation, the lesson being that children thrive in an environment of love regardless of the number, gender, or sexual orientation of the adults who provide it.

• 

  Families of Value: Personal Profiles of Pioneering Lesbian and Gay Parents

  Robert Bernstein

  Families of Value offers a poignant defense of families with same-sex parents. Former attorney and award-winning author Robert Bernstein tells powerful stories of families with gay and lesbian parents who are at the forefront of social change in America. By turns hard-hitting and affecting, these stories portray the resistance these brave parents have faced, their views of the current cultural climate, and, most importantly, the intense passion and dedication that they have demonstrated in the course of raising sound, healthy, and well-adjusted children.

• 

  Fly Little Bird, Fly!: The True Story of Oliver Nordmark & America's Orphan Trains

  Donna Nordmark Aviles

  Holding tight to one another, vowing never to be separated, Oliver and Edward board the Orphan Train headed west to find a new home.

• 

  Forbidden Love

  Gary B. Nash

  Presents accounts of how mainly anonymous Americans have defied the official racial ideology and points out how guardians of the past have written that side of our history out of the record.

• 

  Foster Families

  Julianna Fields

  Explores the history of foster care, describes the reasons children enter foster care, and discusses foster parents, caseworkers, and the conditions in foster homes.

• 

  Foster Youth

  Leanne Currie-McGhee

  Over 400,000 US youth are in foster care, mainly due to neglect and abuse by their parents. These youth endure instability as they move from home to home, and uncertainty about their future as others make the decision as to whether they should be reunited with their families or become available for adoption. Foster Youth presents a powerful, real-world look at the lives of these vulnerable young people.

• 

  Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist, Author, Editor and Diplomat

  Jim Whiting

  Traces the life and historical impact of the noted abolitionist, detailing his birth into slavery and harsh upbringing, his subsequent escape, and his emergence as a leader.

• 

  Freedom Summer: the 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

  Susan Goldman Rubin

  An account of the civil rights crusade in Mississippi 50 years ago that brought on shocking violence and the beginning of a new political order.

• 

  Gay & Lesbian History for Kids: The Century-Long Struggle for LGBT Rights

  Jerome Pohlen

  Who transformed George Washington's demoralized troops at Valley Forge into a fighting force that defeated an empire? Who cracked Germany's Enigma code and shortened World War II? Who successfully lobbied the US Congress to outlaw child labor? And who organized the 1963 March on Washington? Ls, Gs, Bs, and Ts, that's who...This up-to-date history includes the landmark Supreme Court decision making marriage equality the law of the land. Twenty-one activities enliven the history and demonstrate the spirited ways the LGBT community has pushed for positive social change.

• 

  Gay Power! The Stonewall Riots and the Gay Rights Movement, 1969

  Betsy Kuhn

  Explores the decades of discrimination and abuse that gay people endured in earlier eras. Also learn how gay people continue to fight for equal rights and recognition.

• 

  Grandparents Raising Kids

  Rae Simons

  In 2005, 6 million children were being raised by their grandparents. Sometimes, their grandchildren's parents had died, sometimes they were in prison, and sometimes they just couldn't cope with raising children. When grandparents take in their grandchildren to raise, they have some difficulties most families don't have. They're older, for one thing, and they also have to deal with their own children and that relationship. But they have the wisdom and experience they've gained from raising one set of children already, and this can help. The families in this book have had both good and bad experiences, but they have learned a great deal through them.

• 

  Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood

  Melissa Hart

  Torn between the high socioeconomic status of her father and the bohemian lifestyle of her mother, Melissa Hart tells a compelling story of contradiction in this coming-of-age memoir. Set in 1970s Southern California, Gringa is the story of a young girl conflicted by two extremes. On the one hand theres life with her mother, who leaves her father to begin a lesbian relationship, taking Hart and her two siblings along. Hart tells of her moms new life in a Hispanic neighborhood of Oxnard, California, and how these new surroundings begin to positively shape Hart herself. At the opposite extreme is her fathers white-bread well-to-do security, which is predictable and stable and boring. Hart is made all the more fraught with frustration when a judge rules that being raised by two women is 'unnatural' and grants her father primary custody.