Thirteen-year-old Aggie Wing documents the events of her summer in Ludwig, Maine, where she and her brother stay with their ninety-one-year-old grandfather while their mother, a writer of romance novels, is away doing research.
Filomena makes stunning wedding dresses. When it's time to make her own, she uses all the ideas she's compiled over her years as a seamstress, but the result is so awful, it scares her groom away!
One stormy night, five stranded schoolchildren uncover the story of Richard Clayton Harwick a boy who many years ago learned what it was like to have a truly wicked stepfather. But the children have stories of their own step-parents to tell stories that have warmth and humour, as well as sadness, and a fair share of happy endings. For children who have some similar experience, this novel will be therapeutic; for those who haven t it s an absorbing read, to make them laugh and cry Sunday Telegrap...
Thanks for Nothing (From the Files of Madison Finn, #5)
by Laura Dower
It's Not Your Fault, Koko Bear (Lansky, Vicki)
by Vicki Lansky and Jane Prince
Everything's perfect at Rosemary Acres. All the streets are named after spices. The hedges and lawns are perfectly trimmed. The townhouses are all the same color. For T.R. and his older brother Danny, things are too perfect. What are they going to find to do out here? They'd much rather still be living in Chicago with their aunt Cis, but their mom insisted that the move would be good, another step forward after her divorce from the boys' father. Since that divorce Danny has tried his best to b...
Byker Grove: Posters on the Walls (Byker Grove S.)
by Robert Rigby
Isabelle Ashley, forced to abandon her sense of style when she dresses for her cousin's wedding, finds a way to express her individuality after all.
When Lizzie's mother announces that she is remarrying, Heather wonders if her wild and unusual friendship with Lizzie will survive the preparations for the wedding.
Educating Children on Divorce