THE PENDERWICKS: A SUMMER TALE OF FOUR SISTERS, TWO RABBITS, AND A VERY INTERESTING BOY
by Jeanne Birdsall
Knopf;ISBN: 0375831436;$15.95;2005

Four sisters and their father rent a vacation cottage on an estate owned by snooty Mrs. Tifton. To her chagrin, her son Jeffrey adores the girls and turns to them when his mother threatens to remarry and ship him off to boarding school.

Suggested for ages 7 - 13
Subjects: National Book Award | Single-parent families | Sisters | Vacation

THE FIRST PART LAST [AUDIOBOOK]
by Angela Johnson
narrated by Khalipa Oldjohn
Listening Library;ISBN: 1400091152;$24;2004

Bobby—a single parent at age 16—feels trapped by love for his infant daughter, the disappointed expectations of his parents, and a longing for life the way it used to be. Oldjohn’s direct approach makes Bobby intensely real—earnest, impulsive, restless, angry, and loving— in a touching and terrifying glimpse of adolescence gone awry.

Suggested for ages 14 - 18
Subjects: Single-parent families