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[2017], Adolescent, Dial Books Call No: MYSTERY F WER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An unlikely group of allies comes together to save themselves when their parents seem to be plotting to have them all killed.
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[2013]., Adolescent, Harlequin Teen Call No: Romance FIC McGarry Genre: Romance Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Hiding a deep-rooted secret about her mother, seventeen-year-old Beth Risk is forced into a new home in exchange for keeping her mother's secret safe. At her new school, she meets Ryan Stone, a popular boy with a spotless outer image who is hiding secrets of his own. As they grow closer, their lives -- and the hidden things that drive them -- begin to intersect.
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[2015]., Pre-adolescent, Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Prairie EversSummary Note: When eleven-year-old Ivy Blake leaves the nice farm family where she has been living in upstate New York and moves back in with her mother she is finally forced to face up to the fact that her alcoholic, dysfunctional parent will never be able to provide her with a stable home--and if she wants to achieve her dreams she is going to have to take charge of her own future.
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c2005., Scribner Call No: Class Set FIC WAL Availability:30 of 30 At Location(s)Publisher description Sample text More... Summary Note: Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary painted and wrote and couldn't stand the responsibility of providing for her family. When the money ran out, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town Rex had tried to escape. As the dysfunction escalated, the children had to fend for themselves, supporting one another as they found the resources and will to leave home. Yet Walls describes her parents with deep affection in this tale of unconditional love in a family that, despite its profound flaws, gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life.--From publisher description.
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1998., Aladdin Paperbacks Call No: Fiction FIC NAY Edition: 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When thirteen-year-old Chrissa is sent to her paternal grandmother's farm, she learns more about her absent father and some of the reasons for her distant relationship with her mother.
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-- I am glad my mom died2022., Simon & Schuster Call No: B McCurdy Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Chronicles the life of Jennette McCurdy, and details her struggles as a former child actress including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her abusive and overbearing mother. Explores how her mother controlled every aspect of her life after she was cast in the TV shows, "iCarly" and "Sam & Cat," and discusses McCurdy's path to recovery after she stepped away from acting and began therapy. Examines the toxic environment child stars face in the entertainment industry.
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2014., Adolescent, Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: Teen Fiction FIC AND Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Hayley Kincaid and her father move back to their hometown to try a 'normal' life, but the horrors he saw in the war threaten to destroy their lives"--Provided by publisher.
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2014, Adolescent, Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Hayley Kincaid and her father move back to their hometown to try a 'normal' life, but the horrors he saw in the war threaten to destroy their lives"--Provided by publisher.
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[2014]., The Penguin Group Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: [Fic] Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Hayley Kincaid and her father move back to their hometown to try to live a "normal" life, but the horrors he saw in the war threaten to destroy them both.
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2022., Pre-adolescent, LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY Call No: SPORTS F ENG Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Daphne spends a vacation with her estranged father, whom she has not seen in years, and the pair bond over their love of skateboarding.
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[2018]., Little A Call No: MEMOIR NF BAR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Told with a lyrical, almost-dreamlike voice as intoxicating as the moonflowers and orchids that inhabit this world, Monsoon Mansion is a harrowing yet triumphant coming-of-age memoir exploring the dark, troubled waters of a family's rise and fall from grace in the Philippines. It would take a young warrior to survive it. Cinelle Barnes was barely three years old when her family moved into Mansion Royale, a stately ten-bedroom home in the Philippines. Filled with her mother's opulent social aspirations and the gloriously excessive evidence of her father's self-made success, it was a girl's storybook playland. But when a monsoon hits, her father leaves, and her mother's terrible lover takes the reins, Cinelle's fantastical childhood turns toward tyranny she could never have imagined. Formerly a home worthy of magazines and lavish parties, Mansion Royale becomes a dangerous shell of the splendid palace it had once been. In this remarkable ode to survival, Cinelle creates something magical out of her truth--underscored by her complicated relationship with her mother. Through a tangle of tragedy and betrayal emerges a revelatory journey of perseverance and strength, of grit and beauty, and of coming to terms with the price of family--and what it takes to grow up.
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[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: ADVENTURE F CUM Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Eleven-year-old Edgar and his mother move to Dawson, a town in Yukon, Canada, for a new start, but when Edgar fears his mother's destructive behavior will force them to leave, he turns to a dog named Benjamin to help him stop the worst from happening.
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[2013]., Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: YOUNG ADULT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fourteen-year-old Faye, an African American living in 1984 Brooklyn, New York, copes with her mother's abuse by stealing with her friends, but when robbing an elderly woman almost turns to murder, she gains an opportunity to learn new truths about life.
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2015., Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Four sisters rely on each other - and a bit of mysterious magic - to cope with their mother's illness.
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[2017]., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: REALISTIC F BOW Edition: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition September 2017. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Kiko Himura yearns to escape the toxic relationship with her mother by getting into her dream art school, but when things do not work out as she hoped Kiko jumps at the opportunity to tour art schools with her childhood friend, learning life-changing truths about herself and her past along the way.
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[2018], Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sunny, the Defenders' best runner, only runs for his father, who blames Sunny for his mother's death, but with his coach's help Sunny finds a way to combine track and field with his true passion, dancing.
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-- Things we could not sayBy Coles, Jay2021., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: REALISTIC F COL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "There's always been a hole in Gio's life. Not because he's into both guys and girls. Not because his father has some drinking issues. Not because his friends are always bringing him their drama. No, the hole in Gio's life takes the shape of his birth mom, who left Gio, his brother, and his father when Gio was nine years old. For eight years, he never heard a word from her...and now, just as he's started to get his life together, she's back. It's hard for Gio to know what to do. Can he forgive her like she wants to be forgiven? Or should he tell her she lost her chance to be in his life? Complicating things further, Gio's started to hang out with David, a new guy on the basketball team. Are they friends? More than friends? At first, Gio's not sure...especially because he's not sure what he wants from anyone right now. There are no easy answers to love--whether it's family love or friend love or romantic love. In Things We Couldn't Say, Jay Coles, acclaimed author of Tyler Johnson Was Here, shows us a guy trying to navigate love in all its ambiguity--hoping at the other end he'll be able to figure out who he is and who he should be"--From the publisher's web site.
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-- Things we could not sayBy Coles, Jay2021., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: Romance Fic Coles Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Black bisexual teenager Gio's deepest problem has nothing to do with his sexuality, his dad's drinking, or his friends' drama--no, it has everything to do his birth mom, who left Gio and his family when he was just nine years old. Now, just when he thought his life could get together into something resembling happy, his mom returns, and has the audacity to ask for forgiveness. Now, at the same time as he is trying to decide if he is just friends or something more with new basketball teammate David, Gio must decide what love looks like when it comes to his mother.
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[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Chronicle Books Call No: REALISTIC F DIE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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copyright2013., Margaret K. McElderry Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A sad and silent nine-year-old boy finds his voice when he moves in next to a family that rescues Great Pyrenees dogs.