DIVORCE

 

 

Call #                   Author              Title

E                            Abercrombie    Charlie Anderson (pre-3)

E                            Adams              On the Day His Daddy Left (pre-3)

E                            Best                    Getting Used to Harry (pre – 2)

E                            Boyd                  Not-So-Wicked Stepmother (pre-4)

E                            Caseley             Priscilla Twice (Priscilla learns there are different kinds of families)

E                            Christiansen     My Mother’s House, My Father’s House

E                            Cook                  Room for a Stepdaddy

E                            Girard               At Daddy’s on Saturdays

E                            Haughton         Rainy Day (A boy takes a long walk with dad after divorce)

E                            Hickman           Robert Lives with his Grandparents

E                            Hoffman           Boundless Grace: adjusting to stepfamily  (K-3)

E                            Hogan               Will Dad Ever Move Back Home? (K-3)

E                            Hopkins            Changes: My Family & Me (Divorce and remarriage)

E                            Leach                 My Wicked Stepmother

E                            McGinnis          If Daddy Only Knew Me (K-3)

E                            Masurel            Two Homes (pre)

E                            Ransom             We’re Growing Together (stepfather)

E                            Santucci            Loon Summer (understanding things will be different)

E                            Schotter             Missing Rabbit (two houses – where do you live?)

E                            Simon                I Wish I had my Father

E                            Spelman            Mama & Daddy Bear’s Divorce

E                            Stinson              Mom and Dad don’t Live Together Anymore (pre-3)

E                            Vigna                Grandma Without Me (k-3)  I Live with Daddy

E                            Waber               Bernard (A dog chooses not to take sides in his owners divorce) (K-3)

E                            Watson              Sometimes a Family has to Split Up

E                            Winthrop          As the Crow Flies (divorced parents who live far apart) (pre-2)

 

J Fic                       Aiello                On with the Show (3-5)

J Fic                       Birdseye           Tucker (family trying to reunite)

J Fic                       Blume               It’s Not the end of the world (3-5)

J Fic                       Boegehold        Daddy doesn’t live here anymore (2-4)

J Fic                       Burch                 Queeny Peavy (girl teased about father in prison) (5-8)

J Fic                       Carrick              What a Wimp (dealing with a bully) (3-6)

J Fic                       Chorao              Magic Eye for Ida (Ida runs away and finds something special) (2-4)

J Fic                       Cleary               Otis Spofford (an irresistible troublemaker at school) (3-6)

J Fic                       Cruise               Top Secret Journal of Fiona Claire Jordan (journal writing to cope)

J Fic                       Danzinger         Amber Brown Goes Fourth (life changes with divorce)

J Fic                       Duncan             Gift of Magic (A girl’s ESP brings trouble)(6+)

J Fic                       Fine                   Step by Wicked Step (friends discuss the impact of divorce on them)

J Fic                       Giff                    Rat Teeth (5th grader feels nothing is right in his life after the divorce)

J Fic                       Green                Girl Called Al (Girl’s friendships and the joys and sorrow of life) (5-7)

J Fic                       Hest                   Where in the World is the Perfect Family (school and friendship)(4-6)

J Fic                       Hurwitz            Dede Takes Charge (A daughter helps her mother cope) (3-6)

J Fic                       Jukes                 Like Jake and Me (Jake finds some common ground with stepdad)(2-4)

J Fic                       Klein                 Taking Sides (Girl adjusts to life with Dad and a little brother) (5+)

J Fic                       Lisle                  Gold Dust Letters (finding a distraction from tense relationship with Dad)

J Fic                       Mazer                E, My Name is Emily (a friend helps a girl cope with her parents’ divorce)

J Fic                       Park                   Don’t Make Me Smile (A boy has trouble adjusting to divorce) (4-7)

J Fic                       Petersen            I Want Answers and a Parachute (Brothers traveling to visit Dad) (3-5)

J Fic                       Pevsner             A Smart Kid Like You (Father’s new wife is daughter’s teacher) (5-9)

J Fic                       Pfeffer               Dear Dad, Love Laurie (Letters to Dad chronicle a girl’s year) (5-8)

J Fic                       Pfeffer               Make Believe (Divorce affects family friendships)

J Fic                       Platt                   Chloris and the Freaks (Father’s suicide and mother’s remarriage)(6+ )

J Fic                       Ransom             More than a Name (stepfather)

J Fic                       Shreve               The Formerly Great Alexander Family ( A boy’s perfect family is ruined)

J Fic                       Slote                  Matt Gargan’s Boy(Woman becomes interested in a boy’s divorced father)

J Fic                       Stolz                  What Time of Night is it? (Three siblings cope after Mom leaves) (6+ )

J Fic                       Smith                   The Squeaky Wheel (Boy has trouble coping after his parents’ divorce)

J Fic                       Willner              Jason and the Losers (Boy goes to live with Aunt and Uncle after divorce)

J Fic                       Wyeth               Ginger Brown: Too Many Houses (Bouncing between grandparents)

J Fic                       Zolotow            A Father Like That (A boy describes the father he wants) (2-4)

 

YA Fic                  Blume               Just as Long as We’re Together  (trying to conceal family problems)

YA Fic                   Byars                  The Animal, the Vegetable and John D. Jones (Vacationing with father and his new girlfriend and her son)4-6)

YA Fic                  Cole                   Celine

YA Fic                 Conrad              Holding Me Here (When helping a friend a girl realizes how much she’s been hurt by her parents divorce)

YA Fic                 Dana                  Necessary Parties (A boy finds a lawyer to stop his parents’ divorce)

YA Fic                 Danzinger         Divorce Express (A girl tries to create a new life for herself)

YA Fic                 Ferris                 Relative Strangers (A girl vacations with a Dad she hardly knows)

YA Fic                 Jones                  Beginning of Unbelief  (Journal turns into a sci-fi story)

YA Fic                 Shoup                Wish You Were Here (High school senior copes with his parents’ divorce)

 

 

J 301.42               Gardner            The Boys’ and Girls’ Book About Divorce

J 301.428             Goff                   Where is Daddy?  The Story of a Divorce

J 301.4284           Boeckman         Surviving Your Parents’ Divorce

J 301.4284           LeShan              What’s Going to Happen to Me?

J 301.4284           Stein                  On Divorce

J 306.874             Berman             What am I doing in a Step-Family?

J 306.89               Berry                 Good Answers to Tough Questions About Divorce

J 306.89               Brown               Dinosaurs Divorce

J 306.89               Krementz          How it Feels when Parents Divorce

J 306.89               Levine               Divorce:  Young People Caught in the Middle

J 306.89               Mayle                Why are we Getting a Divorce?

J 306.89               Nickman           When Mom and Dad Divorce (3-5)

J 306.89               Rogers               Divorce

J 306.89               Swan-Jackson   When Your Parents Split Up … How to Keep Yourself Together

J 306.89               Thomas             My Family’s Changing

J 811.54               Livingston        There was a Place and Other Poems

 

A service of the City of Midland 

 

Divorce

SW 11/04

 


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