FAMILY ISSUES – FAMILY STUDIES – GRADE 9

Novels - Young Adult

BAILLEY, ANNE                   CHERIE                                               -coping with rape

BELL, WILLIAM            *NO SIGNATURE                                     -searching for absent fathers

BELL, WILLIAM            ZACK                                                    -searching for roots

CADNUM, MICHAEL         ZERO AT THE BONE                            -family copes with runaway

CARTER, ALDEN R.         WART, SON OF TOAD                            -relationship with father

CHOYCE, LESLEY            *FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS         -struggling to live without parent

COONEY, CAROLINE         THE FACE ON THE MILK CARTON    -identity crisis

CRUTCHER, CHRIS         IRONMAN                                                 -relationship with father, anger mgmt

DANZIGER, PAULA            THE CAT ATE MY GYMSUIT                  -domineering father

DECLEMENTS, BARTHE   I NEVER ASKED YOU TO UNDERSTAND            -dropouts, etc.

DEJENKINS, LYLL BECERRA   THE HONOURABLE PRION                 -struggle to survive within the family

DOHERTY, BERLIE            DEAR NOBODY                                           -teenage pregnancy

GAETZ, DAYLE                       *SPOILED ROTTEN                                -step mother

GAETZ, DAYLE                       *TELL ME THE TRUTH                                  -divorce

GOOBIE, BETH             *GROUP HOMES FROM OUTER SPACE                    -child battering

HALVORSON, MARILYN            BROTHERS AND STRANGERS                      -adjusting to family

HAWORTH-ATTARD, B            BURIED TREASURES                         -dealing with an aging relative

HEWETT, LORRI                       SOULFIRE                                                   -single parent family

HORROCKS, ANITA            WHAT THEY DON’T KNOW                       -personality changes

HRDLITSCHKA, SHELLEY            DISCONNECTED                                      -alienation from father

KLEIN, NORMA                    GOING BACKWARDS                                  -dealing with extended family

KROPP, PAUL              **BABY BABY                                           -teenage pregnancy

KROPP, PAUL              *BABY BLUES                                            -teenage pregnancy

KROPP, PAUL              *JO’S SEARCH                                            -adoption

KROPP, PAUL              *NOT ONLY ME                                          -step father’s sexual abuse

KROPP, PAUL              **RUN AWAY                                            -father beats her

LEE, MARIE G.                    FINDING MY VOICE                                    -strict parents

LEE, MARIE G.                    NECESSARY ROUGHNESS                      -visible minority

LITTLE, JEAN             MAMA’S GOING TO BUY YOU A MOCKINGBIRD                -parents illness (cancer)

MAJOR, KEVIN                       EATING BETWEEN THE LINES               -divorce

MAZER, NORMA FOX            AFTER THE RAIN                                     -dealing with elderly

MAZER, NORMA FOX            BABYFACE                                                  -family secrets

MURPHY, BARBARA            FLY LIKE AN EAGLE                                   -adoption/birth parents

NEWTON, SUZANNE            I WILL CALL IT GEORGIE’S BLUES            -child abuse

OUGHTON, JERRIE            THE WAR IN GEORGIA                             -unconventional family

PATERSON, KATHERINE            JACOB HAVE I LOVED                                  -“twin” issues

PEARSON, KIT                 AWAKE AND DREAMING             -single parent family

PECK, RICHARD                 FATHE FIGURE                                          -absentee father returns

PECK, RICHARD                 THROUGH A BRIEF DARKNESS            -family secrets

PFEFFER, SUSAN                       ABOUT DAVID                                            -murder, suicide

PFEFFER, SUSAN                       THE RING OF TRUTH                                  -dealing with various reactions

PFEFFER, SUSAN                       FAMILY OF STRANGERS                      -feeling disconnected

RYAN, ELIZABETH            ALIAS                                                            -single parenthood

SACHS, MARILYN                 *WHAT MY SISTER REMEMBERED    -orphans, adoption

SLEATER, WILLIAM            OTHERS SEE US                                                     -discovering family’s real thoughts

TOLAN, STEPHANIE            THE GREAT SKINNER ENTERPRISE                      -new careers for parents

VOIGT, CYNTHIA                  A SOLITARY BLUE                                      -single parent (father)

VOIGT, CYNTHIA                  DICEY’S SONG                                                      -orphans

WERLIN, NANCY                      ARE YOU ALONE ON PURPOSE                  -autistic brother

WOLFF, VIRGINIA EUWER                MAKE LEMONADE                                     -teenage pregnancy

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