IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT: What to do when your parents divorce - Rosemary Stones (Piccadilly ISBN1853402338)
A title aiming to help children to deal with the practical and emotional aspects of divorce, from why parents get divorced, to support groups and organisations.
THE DIVORCE EXPRESS - Paula Danziger (Pan Piper ISBN 0749723270)
When Pheobe's parents get divorced she leaves behind her mum and her friends in New York to live in Woodstock with her dad. Every weekend she rides the Divorce Express, the bus that goes between the two towns. On the bus that she meets someone just like her who's living the same chaotic life.
IT'S AN AARDVARK-EAT-TURTLE WORLD - Paula Danziger (Pan Piper ISBN 0434934143)
Rosie's parents divorced shortly after she was born. She's been used to being just her and her mum for years. But now her mother and her best friend's father have fallen in love and are moving in together. It seems like the perfect plan. She and her best friend, Phoebe, are delighted. At first. But it's not so easy being part of a family again - and living with your best friend isn't all it's cracked up to be.
THE SUITCASE KID - Jacqueline Wilson (ISBN 0440863112)
Andrea parents are divorced. She stays with her mum during the week and her dad on the weekends. She dislikes both her father's new partner and her mother's new partner. She is having a hard time coping with her parents' divorce and wishes that she and her parents could go back to living together again. She gradually realises that this is not going to happen. By the end of the book she has accepted and come to terms with the divorce and is beginning to make the best of her new life.
THE OUTSIDE CHILD - Nina Bawden (Puffin)
Jane's mother died when she was a baby and her father is mostly away at sea. She is brought up by two eccentric and lively aunts, and uncovers some family secrets including having a half-brother and sister. She longs to meet them but her step-mother is reluctant.
LETTERS TO JUDY - Judy Blume (Pan Books Ltd)
A collection of letters written to Judy Blume from children about the problems they are facing including loneliness, death, drug, relationships and depression. She responds with practical advice.
IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD - Judy Blume (Heineman)
12-year old Karen marks each day in her diary and most days get a C as her parents' relationship worsens. Karen tries to make things better but realises life goes on and even after her father leaves she is able to have B days.
WALK TWO MOONS - Sharon Creech (Piper)
Salamanca's mother left when she was five, leaving her father to bring her up. The story follows her travels with her father and then with her grandparents.
MADAME DOUBTFIRE - Ann Fine (Puffin)
Lydia, Christopher and Natalie's parents are divorced. When their mother advertises for someone to care for the children, their father disguises himself as a woman and is successful in getting the job.
GOGGLE EYES - Ann Fine (Puffin ISBN 0140365125)
When Helen Johnston rushes out of registration in tears, Kitty Killin is sent after her. Kitty is not only a great storyteller, she is also the world's leading expert in mothers with unwanted boyfriends. So it is that Helen and Kitty spend a morning closeted together in thep rivacy of the Lost Property Cupboard, while Kitty tells the story of Goggle-Eyes, once the most unwanted boyfriend of them all. Goggle-Eyes is over fifty, grey-haired and gets in the way of Kitty's time with her mother. His greatest fault though is that he doesn't agree with their strong-held beliefs about nuclear disarmament, and doesn't mind telling them so. This is a highly readable and amusing story dealing with a range of emotions and issues.
YOU'RE LATE DAD - Tony Bradman (Mammoth; New Ed edition (5 Sep 1991) ISBN-10: 0749701463 )
A collection of stories about the relationships between parents and children
GIRLS IN LOVE - Jacqueline Wilson (Corgi ISBN 055254521)
Ellie, whose mother died when she was young, lives with her dad, his new wife Anna and her half-brother Eggs. She misses her mother's love and advice terribly, particularly when it comes to the ever-difficult area of boys. This first book in a triology is a humorous yet sensitive look at friendship, the love-life of young teenagers and coming to terms with a step-family.
SOPHIE - Rosie Rushton (Piccadilly Press ISBN 1853404381)
Fourteen-year-old Sophie's parents are separated. She idolises her father and is thrilled when he returns from Africa to Britain to work on a homelessness project. Not only is he back in the UK, but this is the gritty life she has dreamed of. As Sophie learns harsh lessons about her do-good attitude, she also learns uncomfortable truths about her father and begins to see her much-maligned mother in a new light. Rosie Rushton perfectly captures the sassy tone of an independently-minded teenage girl, as Sophie learns that life with her mother is not as unappealing as it first seemed.