When some bullies at his new school almost kill him by slipping a peanut into his sandwich, friendless nerd Ambrose, forced to be home-schooled by his overprotective mother, coerces his neighbor Cosmo into taking him to the West Side...
Single-parent families
- Author:Nielsen-Fernlund, SusinSummary:
- Author:Philippe, BenSummary:
Norris Kaplan is clever, cynical, and quite possibly too smart for his own good. A Black French Canadian, he knows moving to Austin, Texas won't be easy. He decides to label people before they can label him, but he may have more in...
- Author:Spencer, OctaviaSummary:
Twelve-year-old Randi, unhappy about moving from Brooklyn to Deer Creek, Tennessee, after her mother's death, soon finds new friends and a case to solve surrounding a stolen time capsule and rumors of a centuries-old treasure.
- Author:Lyon, George EllaSummary:
In a small Alabama town in 1947-1956, Sonny searches for answers about his father's disappearance, "Uncle Marty," who looks after the family, and Mamby, their black housekeeper.
- Author:Williams, IanSummary:
A hilarious and poignant love story about the way families are invented, told with the savvy of Zadie Smith, the energy of Junot Diaz, and an inventiveness all Ian Williams' own, set amidst a collision of cultures banging together in...
- Author:Launier, VéroniqueSummary:
Aude Vanier is a sixteen-year-old rock star with a problem—stone monsters keep attacking her. And when they do, she finds herself chanting in a language she doesn’t understand. Guillaume de Rouen has been stuck as a gargoyle on a church...
- Author:Morpurgo, MichaelSummary:
When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself...
- Author:Guilmaine, ClaudetteSummary:
Dorénavant bien inscrite dans la mouvance des formes familiales, la monoparentalité possède de multiples visages et dénominations qui varient selon les époques, les situations, les personnes et les régions du globe. Dans Parent au...
- Author:Homes, A. M.Summary:
Winner of the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction—A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life by a writer who is always “compelling, devastating, and furiously good” (Zadie Smith)
Harold Silver has spent a...
- Author:Carter, BrookeSummary:
Seventeen-year-old Lucy "Lucky" Graves is devoted to her championship rugby team, but her dreams of a scholarship are destroyed when she breaks her leg during an important game. If it doesn't heal properly, Lucy could be...
- Author:Morris, GilbertSummary:
«Tu n’aimes pas beaucoup les hommes, maman.» Non, ce n’était pas un devoir qu’elle se faisait de détester les hommes; elle ne leur faisait simplement pas confiance. La vie n’a pas été facile pour Jeanne Bettencourt. Jeune veuve, elle...
- Author:Atkinson, E. J.Summary:
Growing up near Boston with her free-spirited mother and old-world grandfather, twelve-year-old Emma has always felt out of place but when she attends the family reunion her father's family holds annually in Wisconsin, she is in...
- Author:Lyga, BarrySummary:
Feeling awkward and ugly is only one reason sixteen-year-old Kevin is uncomfortable with the publicity surrounding his act of accidental heroism, but when a reporter photographs him apparently being unpatriotic, he steps into the...
- Author:Kadohata, CynthiaSummary:
From Newbery Medalist Cynthia Kadohata comes a brilliantly realized sports novel about a hockey player who must discover who he is without the sport that defines him. Hockey is Conor's life. His whole life. He'll say it himself, he's a...
- Author:Sinnott, SusanSummary:
This was the line between here and there. No landwash, no vague intertidal zone, no undecided. She stood at the edge, a mass of instincts and yearnings and despair, while the dawn painted itself in around her, shade by delicate shade....
- Author:Shofner, CorabelSummary:
Twelve-year-old Ruby Clyde Henderson's life turns upside down the day her mother's boyfriend holds up a convenience store and her mother is wrongly jailed for assisting with the crime.
- Author:Williams, Vera B.Summary:
A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire. UEB and BANA Braille Grade 2 6 Braille pages .dxb and .brf files for each volume.
- Author:Brook, NancySummary:
With one bounced check, Nancy Brook’s world collapsed around her. She was charged with a felony and thrown in jail even though her husband had pilfered money out of their business account. Eventually, the charges were dismissed, but her...