What Makes a Family?: Living in a Nontraditional Family

by Rachel Lynette

What Makes Us a Family features fictional narratives paired with firsthand advice from a licensed psychologist to help preteen and teen girls better understand and appreciate their nontraditional families. Topics include adoption, gay parents, grandparents as parents, foster families, stepparents, and mixed-race families. Readers will also learn how to cope with having a parent in prison, an alcoholic parent, or a parent in the military. Throughout...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604537566
• ISBN13: 9781604537567
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Essential Library
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 11 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 12