Going through a divorce is always tough, but when a child with special needs is involved it can be especially challenging. This book takes a comprehensive look at the various aspects of the legal divorce process, addressing the legal issues that divorcing parents of children with special needs face.
Contains two stories based on difficult situations such as death, divorce, going into hospital and moving house. This series contains stories which intend to help children to understand and come to terms with situations involving upheaval and tragedy.
Includes books, which look at a different situation in which young people may be separated form loved ones, and discusses the emotional impact as well as offering useful advice. This series provides contact details, including website addresses and telephone numbers where children can go to for additional information or support.
A sensitive introduction to difficult personal and social issues. Offers support with reassurance and strategies for dealing with problems and special fact boxes for making difficult decisions. Contains a listing of organisations, helplines and websites that can help.
Em adores her funny, glamorous dad - who cares if he's not her real father? He's wonderful to her, and to her little brother and sister. True to form at Christmas, Dad gives them fantastic presents, including a real emerald ring for his little Princess Em Unfortunately, he's got another surprise in store - he's leaving them.
Troubled Kate is hostile to the idea of moving to the country. But when they move into the old farmhouse out in the middle of nowhere, Mum and Dad argue so much that Mum moves back to London. Then Kate discovers a reason to try again: the abandoned garden behind their new home.
Focusing on the natural grief children endure when their parent's divorce, this guide helps children process the common feelings of shock, sadness, anger, guilt, and relief while highlighting their most vital need - love and support. It helps children name and understand these strange emotions.
Her polar-opposite parents' recent divorce has resulted in 12-year-old Annabella having a split personality. She is called Anna at her Mum's, Bella at her Dad's. You can juggle parents, friends, teachers and trainers, but can you juggle boys? This is a funny story of a teenage girl trying to find her identity.
April knows she was found in a dustbin fourteen years ago as a new-born baby. And now she's fairly happily settled with her foster mother, Marion. But she's desperate to recall what happened in the intervening years, and to see if she can find out where she really came from in the first place. This novel presents her story.
To Grace, family has always meant her Ma, her Nana and her cat, Paw-Paw, so when Papa invites her to visit him in the Gambia, she dreams of finding the kind of family that is idealised in stories. But, as Grace soon finds out, families are what you make them.
Tells the story of Tracy Beaker, the great inventor of extremely outrageous dares. Tracy has no designer clothes, when she really needs them. No wonder she bunks off. Still, it will have to do until her real mum comes and gets her. And until then, no-one is going to be better at the Dare Game than Tracy Beaker.
Jules is passionate about acting and has been given the chance to star in the play, Northern Lights. But at home, her family is disintegrating and her father suddenly leaves home. What exactly is Jules's relationship to her flamboyant actor uncle? And what terrible secret is her mother hiding?
Demetrius and Paula Ogglebutt are two perfectly beautiful and well behaved children - which is more than can be said for their problem parents. Mr and Mrs Ogglebutt can't agree on anything, and spend their days playing extremely nasty practical jokes on one another. Drastic measures are needed.
Sapphire thinks she's got it all. Perfect home, perfect family, perfect life. But that's before her parents decide to get divorced. Now everything's going wrong. And Sapphire will do anything to keep her parents together. Even if it means doing things that she knows are wrong.
Sid is cross. He feels cross a lot nowadays. He doesn't understand why his mum and dad don't live together any more. And when Sandra, his mum, tells him that she's arranged for him to spend some time with Mick, his dad, he doesn't want to go. Even if they try to make him, he won't speak to Mick.
Jon and Claire can see why Mum chucked Dad out. He looks a mess, he can't cook and he's useless around the house - something must be done. They are the only ones who can transform him, and impress Mum into taking him back. Disaster strikes however when Mum starts seeing slimy and creepy Roger.
Karen's parents have always argued, and lately they've been getting worse. But, when her father announces that they're going to get divorced, it seems as if Karen's whole world will fall apart. This book talks about issues such as, family stress and pressures, what happens when your parents divorce, and more.
Before mum died, she told Sam that she would always be with him. On the day of mum's cremation, his sister Becky receives a text from a friend: 'Thinking about you. X' Sam becomes convinced that the text is from their mother. Sam thinks he's in contact with mum and forms a plan. How will Sam cope when confronted with the truth?
Tells the story of a child whose parents get divorced, and how life changes for all of them. This work includes a "Note to Parents" in which Vicki Wiley Lepick - a school counselor at St Andrews Priory in Honolulu - gives suggestions on how parents can talk to their children about divorce and reassure them of their parents' love.
Karen has always relied on her grandparents to provide stability in comparison with her volatile parents. When she discovers her grandparents are getting divorced, her wolrd is turned on its head. Through her attempts to stop the divorce she discovers other worthwhile and important relationships.
Presents a sensitive, moving handling of issues of first love and parental break-up. This story contains a brilliantly-drawn relationship between Cesca and her parents. The author's novels, Summertime Blues and "Between You and Me", have attracted very favourable review coverage.