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, dysfunctional families, depressions, self-reliance, alabama, family problems [X], great depression, 1929-1939, historical fiction [X], domestic fiction
East Of Eden
In a California farming valley in 1913, a wild adolescent rebels against his stern father, believing that his father favors his twin brother, and discovers that his mother, whom he had thought dead, is alive.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 50
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: children of prostitutes, fathers and sons, sibling rivalry, brothers, salinas river valley (calif.), father-son relationship, domestic fiction, family problems [X], california, adolescence, family, rural families, historical fiction [X], domestic fiction
A Month Of Sundays
In the summer of 1956, while her mother is in Florida searching for a job, fourteen-year-old April Garnet Rose, who has never met her father, stays with her terminally ill aunt in Virginia and accompanies her as she visits different churches, looking for God.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: family life, sick, family problems [X], christianity, country life, virginia, families, dysfunctional families, historical fiction, historical fiction [X]
Strings Attached
When she drops out of school and struggles to start a career on Broadway in the fall of 1950, seventeen-year-old Kit Corrigan accepts help from an old family friend, a lawyer said to have ties with the mob, who then asks her to do some favors for him.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: dance, family problems [X], italian americans, gangs, homicide, new york (n.y.), high school dropouts, dysfunctional families, gangsters, dropouts, historical fiction, historical fiction [X]
[al Capone Does My Shirts
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
495.7
year: 2010
copies: 1
call number/section: 495.7
lexile:
subjects: united states penitentiary, alcatraz island, california, alcatraz island (calif.), autism, korean language, family problems [X], siblings, historical fiction, historical fiction [X]
Like Vanessa
It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first African American Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but the odds are against her until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 35
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: williams, vanessa, african american girls, beauty contests, dysfunctional families, urban schools, self-confidence, nineteen eighties, african americans, family problems [X], family life, schools, newark (n.j.), historical fiction [X], school stories, children's audiobooks
Speak Easy, Speak Love
"Six teenagers' lives intertwine during a summer of romantic misunderstandings and dangerous deals in this retelling of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, set in the era of Prohibition in the 1920s"--.
FIC
year:
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: nightclubs, prohibition, friendship, dating (social customs), gangsters, nineteen twenties, dysfunctional families, family problems [X], long island (n.y.), adaptations, historical fiction [X]
Love To Everyone
"In 1902 England, Clarry and Peter struggle with the challenges of living with an indifferent father, but the summers they spend in Cornwall with their grandparents and cousin Rupert provide much needed comfort, and in the years that follow Clarry looks back on those leisurely days to help her cope with the trying times of World War I and its aftermath"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: world war, 1914-1918, family problems [X], family life, great britain, families, dysfunctional families, historical fiction [X]
Beautiful Music
"Set in early 1970s Detroit, a divided city still reeling from its violent race riot of 1967 .
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: high school students, dysfunctional families, family problems [X], detroit (mich.), historical fiction [X]
Between Before & After
"In a dual narrative, Elaine struggles to protect herself and brother Stephen in 1918 New York City, and Molly, her daughter, does the same for her brother, Angus, in 1955 San Jose, California"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: secrecy, brothers and sisters, single-parent families, dysfunctional families, secrets, single parents, family life, family problems [X], coming of age, san jose (calif.), new york (n.y.), historical fiction [X], bildungsromans
Girls Like Us
"In the summer of 1972, three girls from very different backgrounds struggle to come to terms with being pregnant"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: pregnancy, single-parent families, united states, teenage pregnancy, teenage girls, family problems [X], historical fiction, domestic fiction, historical fiction [X], domestic fiction, electronic books, abortion, rape
Leaving Lymon
"Raised by his grandparents, first in Mississippi then in Wisconsin, ten-year-old Lymon moves to Chicago in 1945 to live with the mother he never knew, while yearning for his father"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: dysfunctional families, moving, household, african americans, family problems [X], milwaukee (wis.), chicago (ill.), moving, historical fiction [X]
Stealing Mt. Rushmore
"Nellie's dad had planned on having four boys to name after the presidents on Mt.
FIC
year:
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: girls, dysfunctional families, nineteen seventy-four, a.d, family problems [X], family life, historical fiction [X]