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2) Moon pie
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Martha tries to keep her family together after her mother's death as her father struggles with alcoholism.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As she worries about her mother who is entering a rehab facility for alcoholism, eleven-year-old Veronica struggles with secrets, her favorite sport, softball, and what she really wants to do with her life.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In Florida, Anna Casey lives with what she hopes is the last in a long line of foster mothers, and Mica Delano lives with her father on their small boat, and when the two of them begin corresponding, they discover they have a lot in common.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
153 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An eleven-year-old Penacook Indian boy living on a reservation faces his father's alcoholism, a controversy surrounding plans for a casino on a tribal island, and insensitivity toward Native Americans in his school and nearby town.
Author
Series
Newfoundland trilogy (Jill MacLean) volume 2
Publisher
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"An alcoholic mother, a distracted father, a best friend who spends all his time with his new 'girlfriend, ' and three relentless schoolyard bullies: Prinny Murphy's past, present, and future certainly are 'tense' Adding to her misery, she is in grade six and still can't read well enough to escape from remedial lessons with the dour Mrs. Dooks. But when a kindly substitute teacher introduces her to LaVaughn's inner-city world in the free verse novel,...
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