After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

Nick Hall is the star player on the soccer team until a bombshell announcement shatters his world.

Unhappy over her parents' divorce and her mother's boyfriend Max, nine-year-old Amber finds her schoolwork suffering.

Entering fourth grade, Amber faces some changes in her life as her best friend moves away and her parents divorce.

A woman discovers she is pregnant shortly after her husband leaves her. She gives birth to a little girl, Melody, and finds comfort in her music and in the friendship of a tender-hearted gynecologist.

When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating.

Following his parents' divorce a fifth grader goes to live with his aunt and uncle, rooms with his nerdy cousin, and attends a new school. Jason wants to play on the school's kickball team, but is handicapped by his association with his cousin, who is seen as a loser.

At the end of third grade, Amber is excited about her trip with her aunt to London and Paris, where she will see her father again, but her plans change when she comes down with chicken pox.

When William and his mother move, he is unhappy about having a new room but he changes his mind after he gets dinosaur wallpaper and makes a new friend.