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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The exploding phenomenon of late-life divorce has resulted in a seismic shift in modern relationships. Author Bair explores the many reasons why older, long-married couples break up. Having conducted nearly four hundred interviews, Bair reveals some of the surprising motivations that lead to these drastic late-life splits, as well as the surprising turns life takes for all concerned after the divorce is final. Bair finds that, most often, women initiate...
48) It's not your fault, KoKo Bear: a read-together book for parents & young children during divorce
Author
Publisher
Book Peddlers
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
KoKo Bear learns what divorce means, how to deal with changes, how to recognize and talk about her feelings, and that the divorce is not her fault. Each page includes tips for parents.
50) Guy Lenny
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old boy begins to feel like a ping-pong ball when his father decides to remarry and consequently plans to send him to live with his mother, whom he has not seen for seven years.
51) Buttermilk Hill
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
When Lindy's parents divorce and gradually begin to make new lives for themselves she finds all the changes difficult, but in time she starts to find her own way.
Author
Series
Amber Brown volume 7
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Amber Brown faces further complications because of her parents' divorce when her father plans to move back from Paris and she must decide which parent she will be with on Thanksgiving.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
"Karen couldn't tell Mrs. Singer why she had to take her Viking diorama out of the sixth-grade showcase. She felt like yelling, 'To keep my parents from getting divorced!' But she couldn't say it, and the whole class was looking at her anyway. Karen's world was ending. Her father had moved out of the house weeks before; now he was going to Las Vegas to get divorced, and her mother was pleased! She had only a few days to get the two of them together...
Author
Language
English
Description
Mackenzie Dienes seems to have it all - a beautiful home, close friends and a successful career as an elite winemaker with the family winery. There's just one problem - it's not her family, it's her husband's. In fact, everything in her life is tied to him - his mother is the closest thing to a mom that she's ever had, their home is on the family compound, his sister is her best friend. So when she and her husband admit their marriage is over, her...