Weird, Strange, Unlivable ~ Books about family life
Banerjee, Anjali.
Maya Running: While Maya has lived most of her life in a small Manitoba town, she often finds she is caught in the middle—neither Canadian or Indian enough for the people in her life. The hardest part of all is figuring out where she fits in with her family.
YA Banerjee
Canales, Viola.
The Tequila Worm: Growing up in a close-knit community in Texas, Sofia’s family has always been there. It is when she goes to a boarding school in Austin she truly understands how important that family is.
YA Canales
Dessen, Sarah
The Truth About Forever: After Macy’s life changed forever with the death of her father, she has to learn to live with a silent mother and a mostly absent sister determined to resurrect the family’s beach house, all the while trying to live her own life.
YA Dessen
Grove, Lorie Ann
Hold Me Tight: a chain of unsettling
events begins when 12-year old
Essie’s father leaves her family on Thanksgiving,. Despite all the hardships she goes through, however, Essie realizes she still has a family who cares about her.
YA Grove
Hicks, Betty
Get Real: While narrator Dez would love to not be related to her family, her best friend Jil is obsessed with finding her birth mother.
YA Hicks
Klise, Kate
Far From Normal: 14-year old Charles Harrisong narrates the story of how his family became enmeshed in the Wal-mart-like world of Bargain Bonanza as the megachain’s unwilling spokesfamily.
YA Klise
Love. D. Anne
Semiprecious: When their mother decides to chase her lifelong dream of becoming a country music singer in Nashville, Garnet and her sister Opal are left at their aunt’s house in Oklahoma, wondering what happened to their family.
YA Love
McCormick, Patricia
My Brother’s Keeper: The story of Toby’s effort to save his older brother Jake from drug abuse after their father abandons the family.
YA McCormick
Reinhardt, Dana
A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life: Simone always knew she was adopted, but had no desire to know her background. Out of the blue her birth mother calls and things start to change.
YA Reinhardt
Woodson, Jacqueline
The Dear One: Feni is very upset when 15-year old Rebecca, the daughter of her mother’s college friend comes to live with them. Rebecca is pregnant and Feni feels she is an intrusion on her life, already made difficult by her parents’ divorce and her mother’s battle with alcoholism.
YA Woodson
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