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Despite her parents' divorce, her father's coming out as gay, and his plans to marry his boyfriend, ten-year-old Bea is reassured by her parents' unconditional love, excited about getting a stepsister, and haunted by something she did last summer at her father's lake house.
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Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Twelve-year-old Lilla wants to make everyone happy, so when her best friend Vivi dares her to start telling the truth as part of their Summer of Brave, Lilla hesitates because if she says out loud what she really wants, her whole life might crash down around her.
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Pub. Date
2015
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English
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A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he is spending the summer is the testing grounds of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive.
Billy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he is spending the summer is the testing grounds of the mysterious Dr. Libris,...
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When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating.
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Publisher
Uranito
Pub. Date
2016
Language
Español
Description
¡Los papás de Drilo se separaron! Él está asustado y triste y no quiere que las cosas cambien. Los quiere a los dos y los quiere juntos, pero se pelean todo el tiempo y eso ya no es divertido.
Drilo's parents are separated. He is scared and sad and doesn't want things to change. He loves them both and wants them together, but they fight all the time and that's no fun anymore.
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Publisher
Dell Yearling
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
Español
Description
Although ten-year-old Miguel is at first embarrassed by his colorful aunt, Tia Lola, when she comes to Vermont from the Dominican Republic to stay with his mother, his sister, and him after his parents' divorce, he learns to love her.
12) The house swap
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Allie is British and dreams of being a spy. Sage is an only child from sunny California. They meet when their families swap houses for the summer. Though they're polar opposites, Allie and Sage quickly realize that they're both dealing with family issues--Sage's parents may be on the brink of divorce, and Allie's struggling to feel heard in her big family. It may take a trip around the world for them to find their place at home. This sweet and emotional...
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"Evie Thomas doesn't believe in love anymore. Especially after the strangest thing occurs one otherwise ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss and is overcome with a vision of how their romance began... and how it will end. Afterall, event the greatest love stories end with a broken heart, eventually. As Evie tries to understand why this is happening, she finds herself at La Brea Dance studio, learning to waltz, fox-trot, and tango with a...
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Publisher
Picarona
Pub. Date
2018.
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Español
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Leemos cuentos a nuestros pequeños porque les gustan, porque les emocionan, porque les divierten... Pero también porque nos ayudan a que comprendan conductas o situaciones del día a día que nos resultan difíciles de gestionar. Una de las situaciones que mayor estres e incomprension pueden llegar a generar en los peques es el divorcio de sus padres. De pronto, todo ha cambiado, comenzando porque en lugar de vivir en una casa, tendran que hacerlo...
16) Stepping stones
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Series
Peapod farm series volume 1
Language
English
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"Jen moves out to the country and has to put up with her mom and her mom's new boyfriend, as well as his kids. Suddenly part of a larger family in a new place, Jen isn't sure there is a place for her in this different world."--
17) Rosetown
Author
Series
Rosetown books volume 1
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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.
18) Hatchet
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English
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After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
19) Blended
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English
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Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.
Eleven-year-old Isabella's parents are divorced, so she has to switch lives every week: One week she's Isabella with her dad, his girlfriend Anastasia, and her son Darren living in a fancy house where they...
20) My mom's wedding
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Pinkie has mixed feelings about her divorced mother's wedding especially when she learns that her beloved father will be an attending guest.
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