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1) Loveless
Language
Russian
Formats
Description
A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Angry that her father has left, twelve-year-old Alice swears that she will live in her family's old Renaissance tent until he agrees to return; but after she meets her mute four-year-old neighbor Piper she finds herself becoming involved in the child's life--and when she hears the little girl speak a word for the first time in years she sets out to prove to Piper's parents that the dismal diagnosis they received for their daughter may be all wrong....
3) Rosetown
Author
Series
Rosetown books volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1972, Flora Smallwood, nine, copes with her parents' separation with the help of her friends, Yury and Nessie, a new pet, and the familiar routines of life in Rosetown, Indiana.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
While still upset that her parents have separated and that her father will not be joining their family vacation in Florida, twelve-year-old Olivia must decide if she has the courage to fight when the local sea turtle population is endangered.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Moving to Miller Creek with her dad after her mom decides she needs a "break" from her family, Natty is determined to remain positive no matter what and starts a pep squad at her new school but soon finds herself with no more cheer to give.
7) Weekend dad
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
""This home is home because my dad is here, and it's nothing like home because my mom isn't here," thinks the boy in this story when he enters his dad's new apartment for the first time. His dad moved out on Monday and now it's Friday night, the start of his weekend with his dad. The boy and his dad follow their normal weekend routine -- they eat eggs for breakfast, play cards and spend time at the park. And then they do the same things on Sunday....
Author
Series
Max Disaster volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First Candlewick Press edition.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Mum and Dad don't live together any more, so sometimes this little girl lives with her mum and her cat, and sometimes she lives with her dad. She has two bedrooms and two sets of toys, but she takes her favourite toys with her wherever she goes. This simple, warm lift-the-flap book with bold and colourful illustrations is a reassuring representation of separation for the youngest children. Melanie Walsh visits the changes in routine that are familiar...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Juliet, her newly separated mother, and her older sister have moved to a Mission Beach, where she forms an instant bond with a girl her own age, Emma, even throwing bottles with secret messages into the sea; and then an email arrives, inviting Juliet to join the Starry Night Society, and all she has to do is make someone else's wish come true--but what about her own family, whom she seems to be growing apart from?
12) Swim or sink
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Although only in eighth grade Baxter Reilly is an important member of the Edgeview High School in Tempe, Arizona, and lately the pool has been his place of refuge from the stress of his parents' separation--but now, between the pending divorce, his father's miserable apartment, his mother's new boyfriend, and the resentment and bullying from his older teammates, it is getting harder to focus on his role as the anchor of the 4 x 400 freestyle relay...
14) Breathless
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
From Jennifer Niven, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places, comes an unforgettable new novel about a sensitive girl ready to live her bravest life--sex, heartbreak, family dramas, and all. Before: With graduation on the horizon, budding writer Claudine Henry is focused on three things: college in the fall, become a famous author, and the ever-elusive possibility of sex. She doesn't even need to be in love--sex is all she's...
Author
Series
Max Disaster volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Max's book of inventions, experiments, comic strips, and random thoughts about school, the universe, evolution, and parents who definitely don't act the way parents are supposed to act. Lucky for Max, he has a place to jot down his biggest questions and most amazing discoveries."--p. [4] of cover.
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