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Diversity Resources
Divorce Bibliography
306.85 Jen
Jenness, Aylette. Families : a celebration of diversity, commitment, and love. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1989].
Photographs and text depict the lives of seventeen families from around the country, some with step relationships, divorce, gay parents, foster siblings, and other diverse components. The material was originally a traveling exhibition, begun at the Children's Museum in Boston.
970.494 Coo
Cook, Sherburne Friend. The conflict between the California Indian and white civilization. Berkeley: University of California Press, [1976].
158.3 Stu
Sturkie, Joan. Listening with love : true stories from peer counseling. 1st ed. San Jose, Calif: Resource Publications, [1987].
Discusses the establishment and effectiveness of student peer counseling groups for providing help in such areas as drugs, teacher-student relationship, suicide, self-esteem, and divorce.
306.874 Hyd
Hyde, Margaret O. My friend has four parents. New York: McGraw-Hill, [1981].
Examines various situations that arise from divorce and remarriage, including one-parent families, "stepfamilies," and living part-time with both parents. Also includes information on custody, parental kidnapping, and sources of outside help.
P 305.23 Joh
Johnson, Eric W. How to live through junior high school : a practical discussion of the middle and junior high school years for parents, students, and teachers. New ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott, [1975].
Discusses such teen-age problems as grades, cliques, parents, divorce, motivation, anger, allowances, chores, reading, lack of confidence, and many more.
REF 306.803 DiC
DiCanio, Margaret. The encyclopedia of marriage, divorce, and the family. New York, N.Y: Facts on File, [1989].
Video J Dea
Cleary, Beverly. Dear Mr. Henshaw. Hightstown, N.J: McGraw-Hill Media, [1989].
342.73 Fox
Fox, Ken. Everything you need to know about your legal rights. Rev. ed. New York: Rosen Pub. Group, [1995].
Briefly discusses the legal rights of individuals, emphasizing real-life situations in which teenagers may find themselves.
Bk Tape J Cle
Cleary, Beverly and Guidall, George. Dear Mr. Henshaw. Unabridged. Prince Frederick, MD: Recorded Books, [p1992].
In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.
Video J Pum
Garner, Bob. Pumpkin man. [United States]: Pumpkin Pictures, [1998].
A young boy searching for the answers to his parents' divorce encounters a magical pumpkin and a mysterious trick-or-treater on a dark Halloween night.
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August 2001