Divorce

Bonham, Frank.  GIMME AN "H," GIMME AN "E," GIMME AN "L," GIMMIE A "P."

Katie was abandoned by her mother when she was nine.  To make matters worse, her father marries a woman only nine years older than Kate who resents and mistreats her when her father is away.

Kevin and Wren live with their grandparents because their parents are incapable of taking care of them properly.  There father is institutionalized and their mother lives in Atlanta.

Jeremy is a bright, happy, well-adjusted black boy who lives alone with his mother.  Bix is having a difficult time living alone with his stepfather while his mother is in a mental hospital.

Celine Morienval is a 16-year-old artist living in a Chicago loft with her 22-year-old stepmother who has custody while her father is away on an extended lecture tour in Europe.

Angela is 13 and has never met her real father.  She meets him by accident.

Sammy lives with her father after her mother’ death.  They travel all over the country due to his job, but when he decides to settle down, Sammy has to adjust to trying to make real friends.

Shelley cannot believe that her perfect relatives have invited her and her Dad to a family reunion.  It’s not her fault that her dad has remarried—again, and their attitudes make her crazy.

When Victoria is only 13, her father suddenly dies leaving her to deal with may problems:  reduced family income, a move from Boston to New Oxford, and her mother's plans to remarry.

This story is about a 15-year-old who’s still dealing with her emotions about her parents’ divorce when she was 3.

Jessie’s parents are separated and a divorce seems imminent.  Jessie’s in a downward, negative spiral which will not change until she is able to accept the divorce situation for what it is.

Kate Baker's parents were killed in an accident when she was 8.  Aunt Georgia has raised Kate, Jay, and Mattie, but Mattie moved out 4 years ago and Kate, now 16, is confronting the death of her parents and related family issues.

Tex is 15.  His father is away more than at home, his mother died when he was little.  Tex believes his dad is working hard at the rodeo and doesn't really mean to stay away so long without sending money home.  But Mace, Tex's older brother who is raising Tex, knows better.  The hardest thing for Tex is learning his father's secret and learning to appreciate Mace's love and concern for him.

Charles asks Justin, a community recluse whose face had been severely burned, to tutor him to pass a rigorous entrance exam.  Charles learns to appreciate hard work and, more importantly, learns about friendship and love as he and Justin tear down emotional walls each had built around himself.

16-year-old Alfie Newton has just experienced the death of her younger sister who died of a congenital muscle disease which affected her all of her life.  Following her sister's death and parents' divorce, Alfie is forced to come to terms with her own attitudes about death, religion, and love.

After his mother's death, 7-year-old Julie Trelling chooses to live with her Aunt Cordclia instead of her father and his new wife.  This novel traces Julie's development through her 18th birthday.

In three years, Delia’s father has died, and mother has remarried.  She decides to go to the Canadian lake and the island her father willed to her, but not all turns out as she has planned.

The youngest of 4 children, Jason finds himself shouldering most of the brunt of their parents’ recent divorce.

Brett is happy with living with her single mother.  Brett must learn to accept her mother’s new husband, the wolfman.

After her parent’s divorce, Nell finds she must learn to adjust to different living arrangements.

Leslie is devastated by her parents’ divorce and blames her father for it.

Lisa and Robyn are sisters trying to cope after their wealthy father's death.  To compound matters, their mother leaves after creditors repossess their personal effects and the girls go to live with their Aunt Renee and her teenage son, Sam.

Terri always thought her mother was dead.  After she learns that her father kidnapped her after their divorce, Terri’s search for her missing mother begins.

Jimmy’s home has been with Mama Jean since his mother died.  His father is in prison, but when he shows up unexpectedly, Jimmy decides to go with him on a cross-country trek, against Mama Jean’s best arguments.

Two youth react differently to their parents’ divorces.

Emily Dickinson said, "After great pain, a formal feeling comes."  Ever since her mother's death a year ago, Anne has experienced a great emptiness, "a formal feeling" that separates her from her family and friends.

Brian is on his way to spend the summer with his father in Canada when the single-engine plane he is flying in must make a crash landing, killing the pilot and leaving Brian stranded in the wilderness.

Jessica blames her mother for her parents’ divorce and shuts her out of her life.  She is in for a rude awakening about her parents when she visits her father in Mexico.

After the death of their mother from suicide to escape the ravages of cancer, Jim and Bryon’s grandmother sends them to Florida to live with a father they never knew.

Roger is rejected by both of his parents after being seriously burned in an accident.

Chip is very close to his mother, a single parent he calls Annie.  When Annie becomes pregnant and will not disclose the identity of the father, their relationship is destroyed.

Stowe lives with his divorced mother but is feeling torn between his loyalty to her and his desire to seek the love of his other relatives.

After Chester’s parents divorce he’s faced with a tough decision:  which parent will he choose to live with?

Jeff lives with his father after being abandoned by his mother.

Dicey and her siblings are abandoned by their mother in a mall parking lot and travel to stay with their grandmother, having to prove their worth before being allowed to stay.

A sequel to Homecoming, Dicey has to make many adjustments to their new life with Gram.

The  Tillerman boys learn something about their own character when they set off to find their father, the man who deserted their mother and four children some years before she died.

Eugene is able to survive a summer of dealing with his mother’s first romantic interest since his parents’ divorce, a need to reestablish a relationship with his estranged father, and his first love.