Every Day After
"A young girl fights to keep her mama out of the mental ward, her home away from the bank, and herself out of the orphanage after her father abandons her and her mother in depression era Alabama"--Publisher.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: self-reliance in children, abandoned children [X], dysfunctional families [X], depressions, self-reliance, alabama, family problems, great depression, 1929-1939, historical fiction, domestic fiction
This Raging Light
Seventeen-year-old Lucille is struggling to get through each day, paying bills and looking after her little sister, Wren, while her father is institutionalized after a breakdown and her mother is "on vacation," but nothing else seems to matter when she is with Digby Jones, her best friend's twin brother.
FIC
year:
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: abandoned children [X], family life, sisters, responsibility, friendship, romance fiction, dysfunctional families [X], best friends, family problems, juvenile fiction / love & romance, juvenile fiction / family / siblings, juvenile fiction / social issues / friendship, juvenile fiction / family / parents, families, electronic books, electronic books