Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Families and family members

Does growing up have to mean growing apart?

It's Saturday morning-Ruthie's very favorite day.

It's Saturday morning-Ruthie's very favorite day.

In four hours, Shelby Jane Cooper will be struck by a car.

It's the summer before Lucy's senior year in high school, and life in her sleepy Louisiana town is about to be turned upside down.

Ashley's world is perfect-until her mother disappears, accused of embezzling a million dollars.

“Specific examples of how to develop the skillset and mindset you need to .

Rust is a high-octane adventure set in the prairie lands of an unknown time.

Made to look like a boy, but built for battle, Jet Jones is a robot caught in the middle of an ongoing war.

"Kindermärchen mit Pfiff" lädt junge Leserinnen und Leser zu einer spannenden Sammlung von 27 Geschichten ein, die Abenteuerlust, Fantasie und wichtige Lebenslektionen miteinander verbinden.

When Mallory discovers that her boyfriend, Jeremy, is cheating on her with an online girlfriend, she swears off boys.

Phyre knows there is something life-changing about her new drama teacher, Mia, from the moment they meet.

When Cylin Busby was nine years old, she was obsessed with Izod clothing, the Muppets, and a box turtle she kept in a shoebox.

Ten-year-old Frank and his family have moved nine times in eleven years, and Frank has had it.

Everyone in Shawna Gallagher's life expects perfection and Shawna does her best to oblige.

Julia just graduated as her high school valedictorian, has a full ride to college in the fall and a coveted summer internship clerking for a federal judge.

Annabelle has tamed the wild boys and catty girls of middle school.

Ingrid Bell and her five teenage cousins are such a close-knit group that they don't really mind sitting at the kid table-even if they have to share it with a four-year-old.

You can look at something every day and never really see it.

It's not unusual that a son doesn't listen to his mother.

An essential guide to emotional wellbeing for children,tackling everyday issues to facilitate happier, healthier lives.

From pranks gone wrong to sexual abuse and murder, these stories will motivate readers to reflect on their own lives.

Lila and her grandpa live on the Caribbean island of St.

Strange things are happening in Rith's house at night.

Plenty of things make eight-year-old Maddie nervous: her too-small feet, climbing high places, not always knowing what to say, and especially her new home in the Virginia countryside with Sam, her mom's new husband.

Waiting for Christmas sure can be hard!

Isabelle Ashley Parker McBride has a style all her own.

Staring out the car window at the road flashing by, a young girl explains to her new baby brother what happens When You Visit Grandma and Grandpa: you get to play hide and seek with Grandma in the summer and carve pumpkins with her in the fall.

The first big snow of the winter has finally arrived.

Sylvia and Miz Lula Maye are back!

Halloween is going to be a disaster!

For the young girl in Hope, weekends at her great-aunt Poogee's are the best.

An engaging look at the Everglades, its history, its plants and animals, and the challenges facing scientists trying to save the River of Grass face today.

An elementary school teacher's manual for using A Land Remembered to teach language arts, social studies, and science coordinated with the Sunshine State Standards of the Florida Department of Education.

Old Neb and the Ghost Ship is a charming story about the children of the lighthouse keeper on a pristine barrier island four miles off Florida's Gulf Coast.

Teaching resources for middle school students for A Land Remembered Student Edition.

A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel.

A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel.

Young Olivia moves to the Florida scrub and finds much more than sand and scrawny oak trees.

Fifteen-year-old Danny is a troubled kid, and trouble always seems to follow him.

Will Skye and her family survive the Great Miramichi Fire?

Short-listed for the 1997 Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice On the run from the authorities and the angry townspeople of Weasel City, British Columbia, in the early 1940s, teenage Loretta and her younger brother, Teddy, travel with their gambling stepfather, "e;Bean-Trap"e; Braden, as he strikes out in search of a good poker game in the Canadian and American West.

For as long as 13-year-old Paige Morrow can remember, the tree fort in the giant oak near her cottage in Ontario's Muskoka has been her sanctuary.

Commended for the 2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens Annie Berkley, a schoolmate of Shelby's who has appeared in previous books, lives in a foster home and has become depressed.

Short-listed for the 2004 Rocky Mountain Book Award and for the 2003 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award and long-listed for the 2002 CBC Canada Reads People's Choice Book Kataryna Baliuk, a gifted fine arts student, is hoping to have a fresh start at Cawthra School for the Arts after a less-than-successful year at the neighbouring Catholic high school.

With school over, Greg visiting relatives, and Betts on vacation with her family, it's looking like it will be a quiet summer for Shelby Belgarden.