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  • 1001 Cranes by Naomi Hirahara

    1001 Cranes

    Naomi Hirahara

    With her parents on the verge of separating, a devastated twelve-year-old Japanese American girl spends the summer in Los Angeles with her grandparents, where she folds paper cranes into wedding displays, becomes involved with a young skateboarder, and learns how complicated relationships can be.

  • 13 by Jason Robert Brown and Dan Elish

    13

    Jason Robert Brown and Dan Elish

    Almost thirteen-year-old Evan Goldman learns what it means to be a man when his parents separate and he and his mother move from New York City to Appleton, Indiana, right before his bar mitzvah.

  • 42 Miles by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer

    42 Miles

    Tracie Vaughn Zimmer

    As her thirteenth birthday approaches, JoEllen decides to bring together her two separate lives--one as Joey, who enjoys weekends with her father and other relatives on a farm, and another as Ellen, who lives with her mother in a Cincinnati apartment near her school and friends.

  • All the Stars Denied by Guadalupe Garcia McCall

    All the Stars Denied

    Guadalupe Garcia McCall

    When resentment surges during the Great Depression in a Texas border town, Estrella, fifteen, organizes a protest against the treatment of tejanos and soon finds herself with her mother and baby brother in Mexico.

  • A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley

    A Long Way Home

    Saroo Brierley

    An account of the author's inspirational effort to find his India birthplace describes how he was accidentally separated from his family in the mid-1980s, his survival on the streets of Calcutta, his adoption by an Australian family, and his headline-making Google Earth search.

  • Also Known as Harper by Ann Haywood Leal

    Also Known as Harper

    Ann Haywood Leal

    Writing poetry helps fifth-grader Harper Lee Morgan cope with her father's absence, being evicted, and having to skip school to care for her brother while their mother works, and things look even brighter after she befriends a mute girl and a kindly disabled woman.

  • Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit by Paula Danziger

    Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit

    Paula Danziger

    Amber Brown is in deep trouble. Lately, no matter what she does, it isn't enough. She straightens up her room, sort of. She does her homework, well most of it. And she agrees to meet Max, her mother's new boyfriend, but she doesn't agree to like him. Now her mother is angry, her teacher wants all of her homework, and Max keeps trying to make her laugh. What's Amber to do? All she wants is a little extra credit. She really tries ... But how will she succeed?

  • Amelia Westlake by Erin Gough

    Amelia Westlake

    Erin Gough

    Harriet Price has the perfect life: she's a prefect at Rosemead Grammar, she lives in a mansion, and her gorgeous girlfriend is a future prime minister. So when she decides to risk it all by helping bad-girl Will Everhart expose the school's many ongoing issues, Harriet tells herself it's because she too is seeking justice. And definitely not because she finds Will oddly fascinating. Will Everhart can't stand posh people like Harriet, but even she has to admit Harriet's ideas are good - and they'll keep Will from being expelled. That's why she teams up with Harriet to create Amelia Westlake, a fake student who can take the credit for a series of provocative pranks at their school. But the further Will and Harriet's hoax goes, the harder it is for the girls to remember they're sworn enemies - and to keep Amelia Westlake's true identity hidden. As tensions burn throughout the school, how far will they go to keep Amelia Westlake - and their feelings for each other - a secret?

  • As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto

    As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who was Raised as a Girl

    John Colapinto

    In 1967, after a baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment. On the advice of a renowned expert in gender identity and sexual reassignment, the boy was surgically altered to live as a girl. This book is the human drama of one man's - and one family's - amazing survival in the face of odds.

  • A Step Toward Falling by Cammie McGovern

    A Step Toward Falling

    Cammie McGovern

    When their inaction during an attack on a disabled girl earns them community service at a center for people with disabilities, Emily and Lucas bond while trying to make up for their mistake, and wonder if they can make it right with the girl who suffered because of them.

  • A Trick of the Light by Lois Metzger

    A Trick of the Light

    Lois Metzger

    Fifteen-year-old Mike desperately attempts to take control as his parents separate and his life falls apart.

  • Becoming Naomi León by Pam Muñoz Ryan

    Becoming Naomi León

    Pam Muñoz Ryan

    Naomi Soledad León Outlaw has had a lot to contend with in her young life, her name for one. Then there are her clothes (sewn in polyester by Gram), her difficulty speaking up, and her status at school as "nobody special." But according to Gram's self-prophecies, most problems can be overcome with positive thinking. Luckily, Naomi also has her carving to strengthen her spirit. And life with Gram and her little brother, Owen, is happy and peaceful. That is, until their mother reappears for the first time in seven years, stirring up all sorts of questions and challenging Naomi to discover who she really is.

  • Between Mom and Jo by Julie Anne Peters

    Between Mom and Jo

    Julie Anne Peters

    Nick has a three-legged dog named Lucky, some pet fish, and two moms who think he's the greatest kid ever. And he happens to think he has the greatest Moms ever, but everything changes when his birth mom and her wife, Jo, start to have marital problems. Suddenly, Nick is in the middle, and instead of having two Moms to turn to for advice, he has no one.

  • Bigger Than a Bread Box by Laurel Snyder

    Bigger Than a Bread Box

    Laurel Snyder

    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 bread box with the power to grant any wish--so long as the wished-for thing fits in the bread box.

  • Big & Little Questions (According to Wren Jo Byrd) by Julie Bowe

    Big & Little Questions (According to Wren Jo Byrd)

    Julie Bowe

    Fourth grader Wren Jo Byrd questions lots of things--both little and big--when her parents decide to get a divorce, and learns a lot about the true meaning of family, home, and friendship.

  • Bird Lake Moon by Ellen Hopkins

    Bird Lake Moon

    Ellen Hopkins

    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.

  • Bitter Rose: Color Me Crushed by Melody Carlson

    Bitter Rose: Color Me Crushed

    Melody Carlson

    A Mexican-American high school senior deals with the separation and divorce of her parents and their effects on her relationship with them and with God.

  • Blended by Sharon M. Draper

    Blended

    Sharon M. Draper

    Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.

  • Camp Confidential: Jenna's Dilemma by Melissa J. Morgan

    Camp Confidential: Jenna's Dilemma

    Melissa J. Morgan

    Eleven-year-old Jenna, contending with the separation of her parents and the unwanted presence of her twin brother and older sister at Camp Lakeview, is determined to make a name for herself by pulling the ultimate prank.

  • Cardboard Kingdom by Chad Sell

    Cardboard Kingdom

    Chad Sell

    Welcome to a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary boxes into colorful costumes, and their ordinary block into cardboard kingdom. This is the summer when sixteen kids encounter knights and rogues, robots and monsters—and their own inner demons—on one last quest before school starts again. In the Cardboard Kingdom, you can be anything you want to be—imagine that! The Cardboard Kingdom was created, organized, and drawn by Chad Sell with writing from ten other authors: Jay Fuller, David DeMeo, Katie Schenkel, Kris Moore, Molly Muldoon, Vid Alliger, Manuel Betancourt, Michael Cole, Cloud Jacobs, and Barbara Perez Marquez. The Cardboard Kingdom affirms the power of imagination and play during the most important years of adolescent identity-searching and emotional growth.

  • Cathy Williams, Buffalo Soldier by Sharon K. Solomon

    Cathy Williams, Buffalo Soldier

    Sharon K. Solomon

    Cathy Williams was the first documented woman to enlist in the United States Army. By disguising herself as a man after the Civil War, she joined the Buffalo Soldiers in protecting the expanding Western states. Cathy's efforts as a soldier earned her an adequate salary and a small place in history.

  • Charlie's Run by Valerie Hobbs

    Charlie's Run

    Valerie Hobbs

    Hoping to stop his parents' impending separation and keep them from getting a divorce, eleven-year-old Charlie runs away from their home in inland California and finds a ride to the coast.

  • Cici: A Fairy's Tale #1 Believe Your Eyes by Cori Doerrfeld

    Cici: A Fairy's Tale #1 Believe Your Eyes

    Cori Doerrfeld

    When Cici's parents separate, her abuela moves in. On her tenth birthday, Cici wakes up with fairy wings and the ability to see who's a real friend and who's not. Will she keep her wings, when the truth is hard to face?

  • Coolies by Yin .

    Coolies

    Yin .

    A young boy hears the story of his great-great-great-grandfather and his brother who came to the United States to make a better life for themselves helping to build the transcontinental railroad.

  • Court of Fives by Kate Elliott

    Court of Fives

    Kate Elliott

    When a scheming lord tears Jess's family apart, she must rely on her unlikely friendship with Kal, a high-ranking Patron boy, and her skill at Fives, an intricate, multi-level athletic competition that offers a chance for glory, to protect her Commoner mother and mixed-race sisters and save her father's reputation.

 
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