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Language
English
Description
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.
6) Bystander
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Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Eric discovers there are consequences to not standing by and watching as the bully at his new school hurts people, but although school officials are aware of the problem, Eric may be the one with a solution.
Author
Series
Max Leroy trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Third-grader Max pursues neighborhood adventures with his dad as they both adjust to recent changes in their family.
Author
Series
Publisher
The Feminist Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A lovingly crafted picture book speaking to the child's perspective on divorce. The book offers advice, sympathy, and wit to match without being pandering or authoritative. While admitting that divorces are painful, it above all empowers its young reader to cope with and even make the best of a difficult situation"--
10) The lifeguard
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Spending the summer at her aunt's beach house, teenaged Sirena struggles with her parents' divorce and falls in love with a mysterious lifeguard.
Author
Series
My dragon books volume Volume 37
Publisher
DG Books Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Drew and Diggory Doo help a friend whose parents live in two different homes.
15) Dani noir
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Imaginative thirteen-year-old Dani feels trapped in her small mountain town with only film noir at the local art theater and her depressed mother for company, but while trying to solve a real mystery she learns much about herself and life.
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Language
English
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Description
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.
17) Blended
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
19) Eggs over Evie
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Evie feels unsettled and sad after her parents divorce, her father remarries and takes the family dog, and his new wife becomes pregnant, but a cooking class and helping the elderly lady next door with her cat give Evie a way to cope with the changes in her life. Includes recipes.
20) The normal kid
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, fifth-graders Sylvan, whose parents' divorce causes him stress, and Charity, who lived in Kenya for the past five years, both strive for normalcy at school and start a petition to keep their teacher, Mr. In, from being fired.