Adler, C. S.  The Shell Lady's Daughter.  Y FIC Adler
When fourteen-year-old Kelly is sent off to Florida after her mother's nervous breakdown to stay with her rigid grandparents, she learns the meaning of love and support.

Avi.   Blue Heron. Y FIC Avi
While spending the month of August on the Massachusetts shore with her father, stepmother, and their new baby, almost thirteen-year-old Maggie finds beauty in and draws strength from a great blue heron, even as the family around her unravels.

Bauer, Marion Dane.  Like Mother, Like Daughter.  Y FIC Bauer
Leslie has trouble relating to her mother and turns instead to her new journalism advisor at school, until a moment of crisis puts a different perspective on things.

Casey, Maude.  Over the Water.   Y FIC Casey
Fourteen-year-old Mary feels like a misfit, both in England where her family lives and in Ireland where they're from, until she and her family visit her grandmother and other relatives in Ireland and Mary gains a better understanding of her background, her mother, and herself.

Childress, Alice.  Rainbow Jordan.  Y FIC Childress
Her mother, her foster guardian, and 14-year-old Rainbow comment on the state of things as she prepares to return to a foster home for yet another stay.

Clarke, Judith. Al Capsella and the Watchdogs.  Y FIC Clarke
Whether goofing off with his friends or fleeing the unwanted attentions of a girl from school, fifteen-year-old Al suffers from constant surveillance by a growing horde of watchdog parents.

Cooney, Caroline B.  The Face on the Milk Carton. Y FIC Cooney/ Y PB C
A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.

Fine, Anne. Flour Babies.  YPB F //  J FIC Fine
When his class of underachievers is assigned to spend three torturous weeks taking care of their own "babies" in the form of bags of flour, Simon makes amazing discoveries about himself while coming to terms with his long-absent father.

Freeman, Suzanne T. The Cuckoo's Child.  Y FIC Freeman
Eleven-year-old Mia refuses to believe that her parents are not coming back after they're reported lost at sea.

Guy, Rosa. The Ups and Downs of Carl Davis III. Y FIC Guy
In a series of letters to his parents and friends, twelve-year-old Carl Davis III, chronicles his initial anger, confusion, and disdain as well as his gradual change of heart about being sent to a small Southern town to live with his grandmother.

Johnson, Angela. Heaven. Y FIC Johnson
Fourteen-year-old Marley's seemingly perfect life in the small town of Heaven is disrupted when she discovers that her father and mother are not her real parents.

Kimmel, Eric A. One Good Tern Deserves Another.  Y FIC Kimmel
After the death of his stepfather, fourteen-year-old P.B. Floyd moves with his mother from Oklahoma to the Oregon coast, where he makes friends with a beautiful young birdwatcher, gets a job at a marine aquarium, and adjusts to the possibility of a new stepfather.

Klass, Sheila Solomon.  The Bennington Stitch. Y FIC Klass
As a young girl, Amy's mother had been denied the chance to attend Bennington College and now is determined that seventeen-year-old Amy will have that opportunity whether she wants it or not.

Klein, Norma.  Mom, the Wolf Man, and Me. Y FIC Klein
An eleven-year-old girl describes her life and relationship with her mother who has never married.

Krisher, Trudy. Kinship. Y FIC Krisher
In 1961 fifteen-year-old Pert, who lives with her mother in Kinship, Georgia, meets her long-absent father and discovers the true meaning of home.

Mazer, Harry. Someone's Mother is Missing : a novel.   Y FIC Mazer
When her emotionally disturbed mother disappears from their home, Lisa searches for her, alternately aided and annoyed by her cousin Sam.

Miklowitz, Gloria D.   Love Story, Take Three.  Y FIC Miklowitz
Increasingly stifled by her overprotective mother and the demands of her fledgling acting career, sixteen-year-old Valerie comes to realize that she must make her own decisions about the direction of her life.

Moore, Martha.  Angels on the Roof.  Y FIC Moore
During a trip to her childhood home in Texas, a mother tries to prevent her teenage daughter from finding out the truth about her father.

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.  Ice.  Y FIC Naylor/ Y PB N
When thirteen-year-old Chrissa is sent to her paternal grandmother's farm, she learns more about her absent father and some of the reasons for her distant relationship with her mother.

Peck, Richard.  Unfinished Portrait of Jessica.  Y FIC Peck
A trip to Mexico to visit the divorced vagabond father whom she idolizes cures fourteen-year-old Jessica of certain illusions and helps her reconstruct her relationship with her mother.

Pfeffer, Susan Beth. Family of Strangers. Y FIC Pfeffer
Through letters and essays, emotionally disturbed sixteen-year-old Abby chronicles her growing desperation in a family consisting of parents who seem devoid of love, one older sister bent on self-destruction, and another older sister who has always seemed perfect.

Sachs, Marilyn.  Just Like a Friend. Y FIC Sachs
Patti finds her relationships with family and friends changing as she comes to new understanding about herself, and her young, lighthearted mother.

Sleator, William.  Rewind.  Y FIC Sleator
Not long after learning that he was adopted, eleven-year-old Peter is hit by a car and then given several chances to alter events that could lead to his death.

Willey, Margaret. The Melinda Zone. Y FIC Willey
While spending the summer with her cousin, who is preoccupied with problems of her own, fifteen-year-old Melinda learns to assert herself instead of always trying to please her divorced parents.

6/26/04